Ashley Madison is the world’s largest website dedicated to facilitate people to be unfaithful to their partners. Their strap-line sums it up: Life is Short. Have an Affair. But over the last few weeks the hacking of their database by a group called the Impact Team has been front page news. The group threatened… Continue reading How should we view the victims of the Ashley Madison hacking?
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‘The Human Propensity to F*** things Up’
“One of the major obstacles to communicating what belief feels like is that I’m not working with a blank slate. Our culture is smudged over with half-legible religious scribblings. The vocabulary that used to describe religious emotions hasn’t gone away…instead, it’s still in circulation, but re-purposed, with new meanings generated by new usages... Case in… Continue reading ‘The Human Propensity to F*** things Up’
