9240095
German Satanic Couple Sentenced.
The BBC is having a great time over a German couple being jailed for a Satanic killing. It seems the woman in question “learned” to drink blood at “bite parties” while in London. While not specifically mentioning Vampire parties, it will be interesting to see if they end up chasing the Vampire Society of London for quotes.
I have attended some of their get togethers are they are mild mannered and pretty tame. While a few of them wear fangs and contact lenses, they are no crazier than sci-fi types at a convention or even Madonna fans. The closest thing to blood was red wine.
Being curious, I asked the bloke, who invited me, if there were any who took the whole thing too far. He told me there were a few but they were persuaded to go elsewhere. I have been to two events, one major and there were no satanists in attendance. No upside-down crosses, ankhs or other satanic imagery to be found.
Comments are off for this post9237017
Barna Research. has released an interesting survey on the religious make-up of the US. It is most eye-opening, and shows a very diverse level of belief even amoung self-described Christians.
Most interesting to me is the fact that only 8% of the population describe themselves as evangelicals. From the commotion these people make you would think they are in the majority of all Christians. This is in fact a perception held by many, outside the US. I must confess I was surprised to see that there were so few of them. Truth be told they are as small a minority as homosexuals, yet equal if not surpass them in the noise they make. It is ironic to note that in many cases the clamour for these two minority groups is aimed at each other.
The percentage of non-Christians (either Evangelical, Born-Again or Nominal (lapsed)) is considerably higher than it has been portrayed in some part of the media. Non-believers (ie non-Christian) and Agnostic/Atheist are 7% and 8% each, exaxctly 10% below the percentage of Nominal Christians. In short the US is predominantlty Christian country.
I do find it a bit troubling that agnostics and atheists were placed in the same catagory. It would have been interesting to see the breakdown between these two types in the catagory. Agnostics and atheists are two distinct types of people. It would be akin to placing “Not Sure” and “Abstain” in the same catagory in the results of a political poll.
This is a very interesting poll and report, and one well worth reading.
Comments are off for this post9232464
You Gov.com People’s Peers Voting commences. (Look for Lord’s Contest link)
YouGov.com launches its “People’s Lord” voting and Marty is in the midst of it. Here is what Marty had to say for himself.
“On a lark, no doubt with at least a few glasses of plonk down my gob, I nominated myself to be a “People’s Lord”. They will be posting 20 of the entrants each day until finished with the lot of them. As they are anonymous you will need to know what I wrote. Find my humble entry below.
I am 33 and a author/novelist/writer/music & computer game critic. I would make a good member of the House of Lords because I am well spoken, read and written. I am comfortable talking to everyone from anarchists to aristocrats, from zoologists to Zoroastrians.
We need some good euro-sceptical libertarians as finalists. Why shouldn’t I be one?”
(Thanks to Natalie Solent for pointing out this report had a dodgy link.)
Comments are off for this post
