I won't bore anyone with a detailed review-just buy it. Money so well spent.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Richard on 11 December, 2017, 02:27:26 PM
Yes, it's the whole run of The Doomsday Scenario, which is brilliant.
Quote from: Pete Wells on 10 December, 2017, 07:46:05 PM
My review is over on the 2000 AD and beyond site here: https://2000adandbeyondsite.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/2000ad-prog-2061-review-2/
For my own amusement, I've compared each thrill to a Christmas song to give an indication of my thoughts and enjoyment of each!
Quote from: pauljholden on 04 December, 2017, 01:56:29 PMQuote from: Prodigal2 on 04 December, 2017, 10:45:35 AM
3. Agree on cathedrals. Beautiful, but far too much wealth tied up in church buildings.Believe it or not I am not the only Christian who subscribes to this. There's a lot of criticism on this front from many people within the church. Personally my preference is for small community based churches who book community halls/resources and are active in social action for its own sake.
(To state my position: very much an atheist - baptised a catholic age 7, by my English protestant mother/catholic dad so I could be sent to a catholic school nearby - religion I've always felt is very much an accident of birth, but as someone once said about me - assuming, I think, it was complimentary, "He's the most moral atheist I ever met")
Went with my wife to Rome and toured St Peter's Basilica, and while my wife enjoyed it (I mean, it's amazing) I found myself getting more and more upset with the enormous wealth that was used to create it (especially considering it was built at a time of crippling property) coincidentally, on our return it was the 500 year anniversary of Martin Luther, and never having read any of his thesis (I remember something about him from history in my catholic boys school) I thought I should give them the once over, and one in particular stuck out for me, to wit:
86. Again, ``Why does not the pope, whose wealth is today greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build this one basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?''
Anyways, me and Martin Luther. We're like THAT.
As you were.
-pj