In a former life I used to be known as the Irreverend Roland Boer (more on that some time), so to brighten up Christmas morn, a few choice moments. The first, noted by the Dunedin School, was a billboard hoisted by St Matthews in the City in Auckland, NZ. It lasted but a few days before being slashed by one or two zealous and pious people (always be suspicious of the pious, I was once told by Jim Mullan):
And the second is something to show the kiddies when they ask how Jesus got his name:
As for me, by some strange coincidence, on this quiet Christmas morn I’m reading Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols and Beyond Good and Evil.
