“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

The stench of sulphur

The news coming out of the Catholic Church these days concerning the massive sexual abuse scandal festering at its heart goes from bad to worse with every passing day: One of the most influential figures in getting Francis elected pope was Washington, DC’s former...

The power and the glory

Seeing as how it is Sunday – well, it is for me, anyway – and given that I am in a thoroughly pagan land, I figured it might be useful to take a look at how God’s grace can transform even the worst of men. If you do not know who David Wood is, I...

They have to go back

The more closely one looks at Islam with anything like a normal desire to weigh up the evidence and come to rational conclusions about what one finds, the more one is driven to the unavoidable fact that Islam is absolutely incompatible with Western civilisation....

What “Golden Age”?

Of all of the lies told by Islamic apologists to defend their chosen “religion” – really a political ideology, and a particularly violent and noxious one, wrapped in the mantle of faith and ritual – one of the absolute worst is the notion that...

#BasedArab

It is pretty unusual to hear a Muslim – let alone an Arab Muslim – telling the truth about the fact that Islam has been nothing short of a disaster for Mankind in general and the West in particular – but here is one saying pretty much exactly...

Pictures from Byzantium

The Hagia Sophia at night As I mentioned a few times recently, I spent most of last week in Istanbul, Turkey. It was an… instructive trip, in several different ways. Here are my thoughts about what I observed of the city, the people, the architecture, and...

Christianity is the West

Posting has been light – actually, non-existent – for the past few days because I’m on the road again. I am writing this post sitting in a coffee shop in Istanbul, Turkey. And I am doing so just up the road from what used to be perhaps the greatest...