2. March, 2010
A prominent Muslim organisation in Britain has issued a fatwa on suicide bombings and terrorism - declaring them "un-Islamic"...The fatwa condemns suicide bombers saying that they are destined for Hell, countering extremist propaganda that Islamist terrorists will enter paradise after death.
23. February, 2010
17. February, 2010
According to a new study published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Atheists are "just as ethical as churchgoers," and religion is only one way through which people can manifest a moral code.
16. February, 2010
13. February, 2010
"I found it disturbing and disheartening. I thought maybe the cartoonist was having a personal crisis."
11. February, 2010
2. February, 2010
"Compassion and love - we agree with all that stuff, too. But what led me to find Christ was that Jesus was a fighter."
31. January, 2010
29. January, 2010
21. January, 2010
Airplane makes emergency landing in response to passenger wearing a strange device on his head.
17. January, 2010
16. January, 2010
You're doing great work, Pat, and I don't want to clip your wings -- just, come on, you're making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That's working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.
14. January, 2010
If disaster strikes, you can pretty much count on religious broadcaster Pat Robertson to say something about it that offends much of the population.
12. January, 2010
Of all the obstacles strewn in Jesus's path, keeping his weight to 51kg (8st) to ride a donkey into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday was not one of them....
11. January, 2010
Religious faiths -- Christian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian -- generally make claims about the nature of reality that conflict with the claims of other faiths. Attacking Christian religious exclusivity is to attack nearly every vital religious tradition. It is not a scandal to believers that others hold differing beliefs. It is only a scandal to those offended by all belief.
10. January, 2010
It’s the people that claim to be ‘a bit spiritual’ that are the real pain-in-the-arses
1. January, 2010
Popular belief that the world will end in 2012 based on Mayan myth is "like a fairy tale," says Christian nutbar who claims the real date will be 21 May 2011. So, um, get readier?
31. December, 2009
25. December, 2009
"That's so pathetic, to say that Jesus was struggling alone in the dust and dirt," Anderson says. "That just makes no sense whatsoever. He was constantly in a state of wealth."
24. December, 2009
But also, increasingly, I wonder: When I'm getting a ride from some friends and they start talking about how stupid religious people are and quoting lines from "Religulous," do I have an obligation to point out how reductive and bigoted they're being, the way I would if they were talking about a particular race?
By trying to rewrite the Bible in their own image, its creators have highlighted exactly what the Bible is not.
23. December, 2009
If abortion is the key in this gigantic story and religion is a major factor in the conflict — and ask the pro-life Democrats, who are largely Catholics and Southern evangelicals, if it is — then some major, major newsroom (I nominate the Times) needs to do a news feature explaining the actual doctrinal views of the religious groups that are playing major roles in this drama.
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings, morons.
