"'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Religion and I have this really weird relationship in the sense that I am actually quite interested in the human mind and the human brain and the concept of deities is a very interesting aspect of the human psyche. I'm all for everyone enjoying their religion, or lack thereof, as long as no one tries to convert anyone. I quite enjoy visiting religious places that allow visitors of any faith to just come in and spend some quiet time but I have yet to visit the new "chapel of silence" that opened close to Kamppi. The main reason for my being reluctant to go there is that when it was first started, the message was that it was just going to be a place to relax and it was part of the Helsinki Design Capital event, I mean given the location (right in the city center, right in front of what is probably the most visited location in Helsinki) it just seemed obvious that it should not be a religious building. Now there is a cross that's at the entrance and the construction was paid for by churches and it is a religious place, although all faiths are welcome. Somehow I find that a bit disturbing. I don't really want to think about religion when I go to the shops or to the railway station, to be honest. All that aside, the other day I saw a quote from an article by Robert Lamb (of the Stuff To Blow Your Mind podcast, awesome thing to listen to along with Stuff You Missed in History Class and Stuff You Should Know) about religion and science. He's actually quoting David Eagleman,"The goal is to avoid committing to any particular story, whether that’s religious fundamentalism or strict atheism. The goal of possibilianism is to retain the wonder that drives us all into science in the first place and to avoid acting as though we know the answers to things we can’t possibly know at the moment." I had never heard of "possibilianism" before and it seems like there are new terms that are coined just for the sake of it. I've always been rather fond of "weak agnosticism" because that's what seems logical from a scientific point of view, although one might argue that strong agnosticism is more correct because everything in science is theory and we'll never have any irrefutable proof of anything... but that just makes my brain ache. But really, isn't possibilianism just agnosticism, we throw in the "wonder" term that seems to go with it. "Wonder agnosticism". That sounds all kinds of awesome. Oh, who am I kidding? Why discuss all these things when we all know that the only correct point of view involves eating pasta being touched by noodly appendages and wearing colanders? And that brings me to some churches in Toulouse. Ta-da-duh! The number of weird saints they have is incredibly high. There seems to be a chapel for everything and I noticed that somehow miracles often involve young maidens and lamb. Still, none of these things beat la Bonne Mère in Marseille and its collection of miniature boat replicas and OM football jerseys (I wonder if there is still Drogba's jersey there).