We were talking about the effect of the religious narcotic on our brains the other day, and someone (I think it was Ali) made the humourous, but accurate, comparison between beer goggles and God goggles.

Perhaps I should more accurately use the words ‘religion goggles’, but I am sure you get the point- the danger of we people of faith just soaking up the stuff of religion, then evaluating everything that we see and hear through a set of lens that are distorted to match our own particular perspective.

The reality is that all of us wear a set of goggles- and none of these are entirely without refraction and distortion. The difficulty is that it is very easy to become so used to the altered images that these become the only reality.

Perhaps the answer is to swop them around every now and again to see things through the (also distorted) lens that others wear from time to time?