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Margaret Thatcher and the Ninth Commandment

THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR.

The purport of the commandment is, since God, who is truth, abhors falsehood, we must cultivate unfeigned truth towards each other. The sum, therefore, will be that we must not by calumnies and false accusations injure our neighbour’s name …Calvin’s Institutes

Now there’s something we’ve forgotten – the importance of a name.

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When Hollywood Goes to Hell

‘Hell is neither so certain nor as hot as it used to be’ Bertrand Russell

In Sam Raimi’s movie Drag me to Hell a sweet mortgage adviser Christine Brown succumbs to temptation. To gain a promotion to assistant manager she refuses to give a vulnerable old gypsy woman an extension on her mortgage repayments.

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