The Mind of the Maker - Frank Skinner talks on Christian faith at St Paul's Cathedral 

... and, having worked for him as a singer, I can tell you that Andrew Carwood is a lovely man too.

Have you read A Comedian's Prayer Book? It's excellent❤

Glad to see you're a Pink Floyd fan. I find Frank Skinner talks a lot of good sense, though I disagree with him about transubstantiation, Shakespeare and some other things. Yet we're getting from a comedian far more than we could normally expect: the fact he is often genuinely funny and brilliantly off the cuff should be quite enough.

To transubstantiation I prefer the view of the great Archbishop William Temple, who said that the bread is the body of Christ because Christ said it is - this allows the bread to continue being bread, without any unnatural transformation that lacks the creator's/ artist's economy and integrity, while at the same time allowing for the creative power and nature of the divine word to give it a spiritual depth that is not adequately expressed by the notion of a symbol: such an approach reminds me of the film-making of Tarkovsky, the greatest film-maker yet to appear, who imitates the man (or bread) that is thoroughly and scientifically man (or bread) and yet at the same time is the spiritual source of both man and bread: Tarkovsky does this by showing us the ordinary things of life, yet from an unexpected angle or with a numinous insight that makes the ordinary at the same time completely extraordinary, more marvellous than Kubrick could concoct for his already alien subject matter in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Rather like a child seeing things for the first time. As St Paul says, these things are spiritually discerned, but some people, sadly, have no such discernment, just as humans lack the levels of hearing that dogs have effortlessly.

Very wise. Some prayers shouldn't be answered and sometimes we can be so angry with God it's impossible to pray, but our silence becomes a prayer and He hears it that way❤

It triggers you .interesting. Did you ever ask why what other people believe bothers you ?

@@conlaiarla No. Did you ever ask yourself why atrocities committed in the name of some made up fairy story don't bother you?

As the great John Lennox said, no one came to believe in Father Christmas as an adult; to compare belief in Santa with God is very weak minded indeed.

@@nickbourne3910 I don't suppose for one minute you are going to explain why you think two equally childish beliefs are in the slightest bit different. In the unlikely event that you attempt to do so, be aware that the two are practically identical in every way so you will have your work cut out if you try to rely on anything that doesn't involve being brainwashed as a child when too young to think for yourself. I will consider a non-response an admission of defeat.

@@RouteDeTours Holding people in utter contempt because of their beliefs is at least as equally weak minded. That atrocities are committed by those who use God as an excuse for them, has no bearing on whether or not God exists. People have tried to blame films and video games for acts of violence, ignoring the fact that the majority of consumers of those things have harmed no one. Blinded by your imagined superiority, you seem to have committed the classic error of confusing faith with organised religion and with humans appropriating it for their own ends by using it to manipulate the impressionable, the vulnerable and the young. Religious fundamentalists are dangerous, because they act out of absolute certainty, and they do so about things we simply cannot know. Your rhetoric only matches their absolute certainty, so therefore, contrary to the notion that you are superior to them, you are merely the other side of the same coin. As Socrates said, wisdom is knowing how little we know. Acknowledging how little we know, is the beginning of wisdom.