Michael Roberts
@MBRoberts4004
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Geologist, historian , cyclist, priest, mountaineer, a Bright Green not a Dark or dim one. Hates bullshit whether left, right or Christian
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Joined April 2014
Darwin's angst over suffering, his parasitic wasps and the death of Jesus Christ. Do they link up? Good Friday and Darwin's Wasps
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I recently bought the WILDguide to Britain’s Insects. It is a magnificent guide and too big to carry into the field. With its photographs and descriptions it was better than my older guides. It als…
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If Hannah Spencer really is the ‘salt of the earth’, then it must be that pink Himalayan stuff that costs a fortune: https://t.co/qxGVvxFWSi
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The Green Party’s newest MP lives in her own pastel-coloured, CBeebies bubble.
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A slant view on Lent. Lent should make us focus on our own faults, but too much Christian theology puts it back to dear Adam. Here I question common view of Romans 8. 20 on "creation" being subjected to futility. Is it a wrong translation? https://t.co/MvKydE7WQa
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Michel Foucault visited Iran in 1978 and praised its budding theocratic revolution as a site of resistance against the liberal-capitalist West he hoped to subvert. One reason why the usual suspects are still supporting the Iranian regime. I have a lecture on Foucault's
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A more robust view of Lent going beyond Being Kind and facing human failings. Thanks to Francis Spufford
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Lent is the time when Christians are supposed to be miserable. fortunately few are! However it is a good time to look at oneself and, if you are a Christian, see where you are falling below any kin…
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Looks like Tatchell is throwing words around again. Whatever could he be trying to justify? It's a mystery. Oh wait, no it isn't. It's all here, in his own words. https://t.co/lIJOyun4OK
Peter “file” Tatchell, who said 9yr old boys can consent to sex with adults, has deleted his Werther effect tweet saying suicides are up 600% after puberty stunting ban. Since propagandists don’t read sources let me debunk this headline with their own numbers. 👇🧵1/
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Would you believe it! St Paul as a good creationist disproved evolution 2000 years ago!! https://t.co/GNJi24ZgQl
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Why the Church of England is wrong on reparations The Church of England must change course
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In our world of rainbow lanyards and microaggression sensitivity training, it’s hard to say which British institution is the most unbearably self-righteous. The Church of England, though…
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Does anyone have an electronic copy of Darwin's Bluff by Shedinger? If so can I have a copy please
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Progressive Researchers Claim They Are 15-20 Years From Finding Out What A Woman Is https://t.co/U9y8vJ5Qqd
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I took to reading some Scottish nationalist justifications of independence, in order to evaluate their cogency. And among the several arguments I came across there was one that can be distilled into the following equation: Britain equals Empire equals Evil. Therefore, Scotland
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The first written use of fuck, from 1528, inscribed by a monk who seems to have been pretty pissed off with an abbot.
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Progressive Researchers Claim They Are 15-20 Years From Finding Out What A Woman Is https://t.co/U9y8vJ5Qqd
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Toxic racist White men going into the toxic masculinity mines, to harvest some patriarchy and White privilege to oppress women and minorities.
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