I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.