God Lite
We don’t do God. We’ve got big numbers now.
The magic zeros replicate for ever
Their demonstration of the why and how
We have cleansed our church of God, being so clever
The mysteries prove unmysterious:
Hell’s bells, the mines of sulphur, flames and flails,
Devils with forks and fangs—can you be serious?
We need no tolerance for fairy tales;
Our world goes way, way back, a zillion zillion
Years. And these days there’s our First XI
Of Scientific Cracks in the pavilion
Determined to engage the Host of Heaven.
Armed to the teeth with figures, facts and fossils,
We’ll devastate His Angels and Apostles.
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins