Arrogance abounds in a statement from the Bishop of Lancaster, who claims that graduates are spreading scepticism and sowing dissent. Imagine that…

The Pope's been moaning that people of the world (and particularly Europe) aren't as interested in reading Christian religious texts as they used to be.

This silly woman decided that, since she didn't manage to get a job, she thought she'd go and ask Sue for it.

I don't know why people keep fighting over petty differences between major monotheistic religions which themselves came out of polytheism anyway. The differences between most of our contemporary monotheistic religions can be attributed almost entirely to entropy of stories which were once — back when these Gods were supposedly walking the Earth — just one tale.

A "senior member" of the christianforums.com website with 793 posts under his belt has continued his chirade against all things logical and tangible in a spiel entitled "Evolutionary Science is a fairytale".

Mars, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, the Sun and the Galactic Centre are aligned, there's a Full Moon (conjunct Mars), and a Venus-square -Neptune arrangement. Also, the Pluto/Sun conjunction appears exactly on the Winter Solstice. A very interesting galactic alignment event. And there's an interesting biblical/astrological similarity to go with it.

As the end of the year approaches, with offices closed for the holidays, decorations up, cruises canceled and early bargains coming online, there are all sorts of interesting things to talk about.

The day after I accused religious authorities of attempting to unfairly stifle the promotion of atheism, Mark Pritchard (Conservative MP for The Wrekin, Shropshire) has called a Westminster debate on "Christianophobia", claiming that attempts to move Christian traditions to the margins of British life have "gone far enough".

Allow me to introduce "The Golden Compass", an upcoming fantasy film based on Philip Pullman's "Northern Lights".

So, whilst some of the British Muslim community is fighting for the right to wear their traditional dress and conceal themselves, others prove exactly why allowing this is dangerous.