William Flew on Castles and Religion

The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in form this time on and forevermore."



Many promote the Theology of the Body, John Paul II’s radical reevaluation of the Church’s sexual ethics in which sex is viewed as a gift intended, within the permanent context of marriage, to reflect the love of God. “It’s been called the Church’s answer to the Sexual Revolution,” says Robert Colquhoun, 28, who is co-organising the first Theology of the Body symposium to be held in this country in June. “Most people think the Church is repressive and wrong about sex, but re-framing its ethic in a positive light clears up misunderstandings.” Marcus Binney A new age of the castle is upon us. Amid the pageantry of the royal wedding, castles — even more than palaces — emerge as the buildings which most strongly express ideas of kingship, chivalry and ceremony as well as the defence of the realm. Yet since the Civil War in the 17th century, the nation has been strewn with roofless and uninhabited castles. As Charles I clashed with Parliament, castle roofs were first stripped of their lead for munitions and then had their walls systematically “slighted” by Cromwell so they could never be used for defensive purposes again.