Jonathan MS Pearce

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Jun 16, 2016

Jesus' Heaven: Scaring You out of Hell

Jesus is supposed to be the great moral teacher: God incarnate, preaching moral perfection, or preaching morality perfectly. However, more often than not, this teaching involves scaring people with notions of what will

Jun 14, 2016

Those Damned Immigrants!

This is Stewart Lee at his very best. Whatever your views on immigration, this is just simply very funny. Gets better and better. Ho, those halcyon days of...nothing! [youtube]https://www.youtube.

Jun 14, 2016

Whitman, tumours, the neurotypical and moral responsibility

Whitman, tumours, the neurotypical and moral responsibility

There was a famous case of a terrible shooting in 1966. Charles Whitman, an otherwise intelligent (138 IQ), ‘normal’ man, did a very abnormal thing. Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American engineering student and former U.S. Marine, who killed seventeen people and wou

Jun 13, 2016

Orlando, Radical Islam and Trump

This is a very quick one as I have a trapped nerve in my back and typing is very painful. First of all, I hope the families of those involved are getting all

Jun 12, 2016

Internalised Patriarchy and Posting Tweets

Internalised Patriarchy and Posting Tweets

Internalising patriarchy is a term that can be used to refer to incidents when women perpetuate sexist ideology through their own behaviour. The idea is that as women are themselves victim to skewed