Dicky Dawkins and the Endangered Unicorns

I'm indebted to Madpriest for the link to the research that shows that higher-educated people have more - although less traditionalist - religious belief. That certainly correlates to my experience - back in Luton and Dunstable the only Christians you were likely to meet were the vicars of St Peters or St Mary's. Whereas Oxford seemed to be full of them. I only met one other believer in the Zoology Dept, of course, and he was a member of a strange sect that only used Reverse Polish Notation. But then the Zoology Dept is that kind of place.

It was actually very well timed, as at this very moment we've a few invisible unicorns hiding away in the cellars beneath the Great House. Basically they're worried that at any moment there might be another Camp Quest-style hunt for these peaceful, friendly creatures. And they have a nasty feeling that if they managed to get caught, the atheists might be tempted to do them in and cover up the evidence. Which is, let's face it, quite easy - what with the unicorns being invisible and everything.

So we've tucked them away and we're feeding them on Flying Spaghetti Monsters. There's been a real glut this year and the Season has just opened. In fact, we're picking them off so easily we've had to make them harder to catch to make it more sport. So we're throwing tea cups at them.

Send them back to Rome

Bordwulk has a habit of expatiating loudly on subjects which he doesn't always fully understand. And I'm afraid he managed to get two threads in the news rather confused - he's never really happy with trying to hold two thoughts in his head at the same time, which is why we're trying to persuade him he may be better off joining the Beaker Secularists.  In any case, we've been trying to explain to him that Anglo Catholics don't "come over here imposing their customs on us" - they were here already. And "if they don't like the Church of England they can clear off back where they came from" would presumably mean Oxford.
He then had a couple in the White Horse and was later to be heard shouting "one of them Fransiscans comes near my wife, I tell you I'll do time."

He's on the Forward in Faith website now, hitting the Refresh button repeatedly under the impression that every time he votes an Anglo-Catholic goes back to Rome.