by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 12, 2022 | Spirit
The first rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club – Chuck Palahnuik We live in a Club. Pretty much all of us, whether we like it or not. We need to know that. And we need to talk about it. The Club is the System – the first level of...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Jun 24, 2022 | Spirit
The Adulteress by Guercino. You can always tell kindergarten-level religion because it focuses on the Sins of the Others, focusing on making them behave better. Heck, if you can change laws to stop the Others sinning, you’ll go to heaven, right? Um… Kindergarten...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Aug 17, 2021 | Spirit
In my comedy act I have a section on the House of Commons Christian Association and how its members voted for Trident nuclear submarines. When asked for a statement about their decision, the party line was ‘we’re looking forward to the return of the Prince...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Feb 14, 2020 | Spirit
It’s Holy Week, so it’s as good a time as any for bringing up the matter of Judas. Loads of people nowadays ask whether he was as bad as he was painted or whether he’s a scapegoat for Judaism. There’s The Gospel of Judas and, most likely, Rev....
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
I was lying in the bath, pondering the Bible passages that orthodox religious folk use when discussing the folk they disapprove of – as you do – when I got a sentence in my head. This doesn’t happen all that often. And when the sentence appears in...
