Archive for June, 2007
Making Fool’s For Satan
The brainchild of the Rational Response Squad an organization that claims to be on an anti-Christian mission that promotes atheism is actually either accidentally or purposely promoting a more demonic ...
US complicit in China’s June 26 drug war slaughter
One of the sick annual rituals in the global drug war has been China's annual round of executions of supposed drug offenders marking the occasion of the UN's "International Day ...
Religion Must Not Cling to What We Know Isn’t True
Rabbi Rami explores the difference between faith and belief, and explains why modern religion must remain grounded in what science has revealed: “If science can disprove some aspect of Judaism, ...
BYU Professor Claims Religion Plays Role in Fidelity
PROVO, Utah (AP) -- A BYU professor says being actively religious could help married couples remain faithful.
Iran moves to execute porn stars
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic ...
Sexy not just for the young anymore
(AP) GREENSBORO, Pa. Giving sultry looks and sexy smiles to the camera, 12 Pittsburgh-area women recently posed at Monongahela historical sites, baring it all -- or almost all -- to ...
Answering Ian Boyne on Atheism
Jamaican journalist Ian Boyne threw down the gauntlet to atheists in this article. His arguments have been made and refuted so many times, it's a ...
Colson sees twin threats: Islamo-fascism and neo-atheism
Colson dismissed Islam's holy book, the Quran, as more likely to have been produced by indigestion than divine revelation. He told the pastors, "Muhammad said it was dictated by the ...
Mother orders daughter to stab Jehovah’s Witness
VICTORVILLE — Afraid that Jehovah’s Witnesses were trying to “steal” her son, a local woman ordered her 15-year-old daughter to stab a 19-year-old Witness, officials said. Around ...
State appeals release of man serving 10 years for oral sex
BULLETIN: A Georgia judge on Monday voided a 10-year sentence for Genarlow Wilson for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 and instead gave him a ...
Inmates Sue After Prisons Ban Religious Books
(CBS) OTISVILLE, N.Y. Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned at what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day: Hundreds of books disappeared from ...
Hindu fundies wreck internet cafes
MUMBAI: A right-wing Hindu group has asked public Internet centres in India to partly block access to Orkut, and is making a software to monitor abusive communities on the popular ...
The Humanist Symposium #3
Welcome, friends. I'd like to have constructed a clever premise for this 3rd edition, but alas it was all I could do to read your fantastic ...
Biodiversity and Environmental Ethics
...a personal reflection: Guest post for the Humanist Symposium by James Coufal
Protecting biodiversity, thereby protecting the resiliency and productivity of ecosystems, is a way to ...
Bush in holy gaffe
Vatican City - US President George W Bush drew gasps at the Vatican on Saturday by referring to Pope Benedict XVI as "sir" instead of the expected "His Holiness", pool ...
Dictating to democracy - rule by religion?
Most recently, Archbishop George Pell has hit the airwaves with a “warning” that members of the New South Wales Parliament face “consequences” in their religious lives if they support a ...
Google’s street views have privacy advocates crying
Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world's most popular Internet search firm of breaking its ...
The Complicity of Members in Cultic Social Manipulation
It is not enough to blame leadership for the power dynamics and destructive nature of cults and religions. Members play an important and symbiotic role.
A "cult" ...
NASA chief regrets remarks on global warming
LOS ANGELES - The head of NASA told scientists and engineers that he regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview, according to a video ...
Hindus Offended at Fertility Goddess on Underwear
From this article:
Brussels: A Belgian garment company has apologized and withdrawn from circulation an undergarment with the picture of Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of wealth, ...
Americans Negative on State of Nation’s Moral Values
More than 8 in 10 Americans think morality is getting worse, representing a slight increase in the past three years. The groups of Americans who are most negative about moral ...
Forget the Big Bang Theory
Now, renegade physicists are making a new case. That it didn't all start in an instant. That there is no beginning, and no end. And those are fighting words in ...
Worried families ditch their Wi-Fi
Sinead Griffiths, a researcher from Walthamstow, north-east London, also had Wi-Fi removed from her home. She says: "There is not enough information available on the subject. I don't want to ...
Swiss suicide clinics ‘helping depressives die’
Prosecutors are calling for tougher regulations on Switzerland's assisted suicide clinics after uncovering evidence that some of the foreign clients they help to die are simply depressed rather than suffering ...
Musician Canned for Focus on Wrong Organ
A Catholic priest has removed his church's organist and choir director from her duties saying her sale of sex toys was not "consistent with Church teachings." Linette ...