Hi Foxy, many a true word is spoken in jest. I have to agree with that one.

Only a short time ago Copernicus and Galileo had their books (their versions of New Matilda) banned because at that time they contained the "crap is crap" theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun, Such heresy contradicted the Bible, which states the Earth is at the center (maybe runner can do a run through and tell us its all true). Copernicus died a short time after his book 'The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies' was published in 1543,he died the same year, so was not prosecuted by the Church, they just dammed him to Hell for eternity. Galileo published his 'Dialogue' in 1632, and was tried by that crap sorting organisation 'The Inquisition' in 1633, forcing Galileo to recant his previously published beliefs.

And these bloody people still want to this day, to tell us how to live our lives! In my school days I was caned for daring to contradict a Brother on matters of scripture. He too was also sorting the "crap from the crap". I can't recall if it was my theory that Jesus was a homosexual, or if it was my other theory that Adam and his sons were bonking Adams daughters and their sisters, and therefore we are all misfit bastards. I had lots of such theories which didn't go down too well with the Zealots!

Foxy,

Your reply is intellectually slovenly. While people may have different opinions of the same article(s) based on different histories, this does not mean that all opinions are of equal value.

You claim that NM has a diverse range of views, yet are unable to give one example of an article that is not left whinge. Not a single even mildly conservative article in its entire existence.

Essentially NM is written by the greens and for the greens.

Dear SM,

I would love to agree with you, but then
we'd both be wrong.

"Essentially NM is written by the greens and for the greens." Is that opinion, or is that fact. If it is opinion, it is worthless, if it is fact, then present the evidence.

SM, you maybe so far to the conservative way of thinking, that even moderate progressive views are seen as extreme left to you. So, in that way it would be impossible to point out anything in NM that may be construed by you as being conservative.

Foxy,

I would like to agree with you, but I don't have sufficient pointless platitudes.

Paul,

The proof is that neither of you have yet been able to produce a single article from NM that reflects a non left whinge POV.

Q.E.D.

P.S. I see that I was right all along, Rhiannon and her fellow Stalinists have finally come out of the closet and declared war on capitalism and authority (such as the police).

Hi Paul,

Actually Copernicus was much smarter than that, I think he died on the same day that his book was published: brilliant career move, outwitting the medieval thought police AND yet getting published.

Both he and Galileo put many years of observations into their findings: in their case, 'truth' wasn't just an impotent opinion or suspicion, but something backed up with irrefutable evidence. I love evidence :)

Most of us atheists go through that adolescent phase of ripping into the idiocies of the Bible, before we realise that they don't matter to believers, who take unquestioning belief even in those idiocies as some sort of test of their belief, and so come out believing even more strongly. Such is 'belief without evidence': intelligent people believing what can't be proven. Most of us just write off such unquestioning belief - after all, it's part of every religion - and move on, hopefully to evidence-based understandings of the actual world.

Gosh, I hope that nobody on the 'Left' holds 'beliefs without evidence'. If that was even possible, that would make them ....... ummm ..... religious ?

Cheers,

Joe