Andrew Brown's blogReligionHow tall is God?This looks like one of those unanswerable questions, but it turns out that the Mormons – and the leaders of the American "Prosperity Gospel" movement – believe they know the answer: God is about 6' 2" tall. (He doesn't use the metric system).
The justification for this is Isaiah 40:12, where God, it is said
hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Read More...
Poland This article is more than 5 years oldMax Spiers death coroner attacks 'incompetent' policeThis article is more than 5 years oldPolish officers did not examine conspiracy theorist’s body after he died, inquest finds
Polish police officers were “wholly incompetent” in their response to the death of a British conspiracy theorist, a coroner has said, as he concluded the man died after taking prescription drugs while suffering from pneumonia.
Max Spiers, 39, died suddenly on 16 July 2016, at the Warsaw home of a fellow conspiracy theorist whom he had met at a conference. Read More...
‘You can imagine that in a different time she might have been consulted as an oracle’: Natalie Mering. Composite: Suki DhandaThe US musician’s Titanic Rising saw her hailed as the ‘millennial Joni Mitchell’. She talks about her religious upbringing, playing in noise bands, and her new album examining our turbulent times
by Kathryn Bromwich“This music is so ominous,” says singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, better known as Weyes Blood. The LA-based artist creates sumptuous, sinuous songs that take in everything from technological alienation to the oncoming climate apocalypse. Read More...
