“Sliding coffins”, burning altars, and plastic ducks…

… although we’re not intending to report on the plastic ducks in the font. “Burning Altars” is a thematic segue to the series of posts on the burial of fonts,  but must wait until we have posted the consistory court update for April. As to “coffin-sliding” someone wondered if it might be a Transylvanian winter sport, but for metallurgists such as David in a former career, Coffin’s Law is associated with a random slip model of metal fatigue…

COVID vaccine as “the mark of the beast”?

In Mr J Mitchell v Royal Mail Group Ltd (England and Wales: Religion or Belief Discrimination) [2023] UKET 1805473/2022, Royal Mail Group applied to strike out the claim that Mr Mitchell’s dismissal had amounted to direct discrimination or harassment related to religion or belief. He stated that his belief originated from his Church’s views in 2020 and early 2021 on the COVID-19 vaccination and was based on his Church’s earlier interpretation of Revelation13:16: “My belief is what it says in the Bible – that the COVID vaccine was the mark of the beast and for us not to get it”. Continue reading →