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Editorial

Gadzooks!

by Rick Lewis

As I type these words, the Festive Season is looming up fast in my wing mirrors like some fairy-light bedecked truck on a desert highway. Christmas is coming and this issue is about problems of theism. Theism is the belief in a benevolent, omnipresent figure who distributes blessings around the world. No, not Santa Claus – God. People often complain that the true meaning of Christmas has been forgotten, but even for Christians there is some controversy over what that meaning is: Oliver Cromwell, for instance, banned Christmas altogether.

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