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Hello. Religious instruction at my Christian Brothers Day School was somewhat light on controversy. We were simply required

to regurgitate the truths of Catholicism as laid down in our well-thumbed catacisms.

And so it came to pass that one morning we were all required to reproduce the details of Christ's resurrection.

Well now, said the brother taking the class, how might we best describe the Apostle Thomas's attitude towards the risen Christ. Yes, Humphreys, he was he was

skeptical sir. Skeptical roared our teacher, sceptical he was not sceptical, Humphreys, he was. He was doubting Thomas. Did you ever hear of skeptical?

Thomas, don't use that word again. And that really was the origin of the sixth form

Skeptical Society, me and Humphreys and a spotty boy called Dobson,

determinedly sifting through the scriptures to find new targets for our skepticism.

Well I remember our pretentious little club when post-modernism burst upon the intellectual

scene in the 1970s. All of a sudden we were being urged to be skeptical not about

mere theological assertions but about the accepted truths of scientific

development and rationality and human progress.

And some saw that invitation to doubt established truths as the origin of what we now call fake news, post-truth

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