Category Archives: Current Events

Papal Fallibility

by VorJack

As I was afraid it would, the child abuse scandal for the Catholic Church in Germany is spreading. However, it’s also climbing.
One of the marks against Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, before he became Pope Benedict XVI, was the suspicion that he had shielded members of the clergy from prosecution for child abuse. As [...]

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Run, Glenn, Run!

by VorJack

That *slurping* sound you hear is Glenn Beck trying to pry the foot from his mouth. It’s in so deep his teeth are scraping his kneecap. On his Fox radio show last week he said the following:
I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of [...]

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Christians Refusing to Fill Out 2010 Census

Wow. Just wow.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Washington Times that she and her family will not be fully filling out the 2010 census forms.
Bachmann, a Republican, said her family will only be indicating the number of people in the household, because “the Constitution doesn’t require any information beyond that.”
Bachmann believes the upcoming census to [...]

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Evolution… and Climate Change

Anti-evolutionists and climate change deniers often go hand in hand. Now there’s a bill in Kentucky that wants to “the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories” about “evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”
Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the [...]

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Woman Grows 6cm Horn on Forehead

From 9 News:
A 101-year-old woman in China has baffled doctors after growing a huge goat-like horn on her forehead.
Zhang Ruifang claims the growth first appeared only last year and has since expanded to be more than 6cm long.
Now her family in Linlou, Henan province, are concerned about a second mark on the [...]

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The Italian Soccer Inquisition

Italian soccer coach Domenico Di Carlo has become “the first person ejected in European soccer competition for transgressing the new Serie A rule on blasphemy”:
It happened last week, three minutes into the second half of his game against Cagliari, when Di Carlo reportedly said “porco dio,” which according to Babelfish, translates into English as “God [...]

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Project Reason

Sam Harris’s “The Reason Project” has been renamed to Project Reason. It seems there was some confusion with the Reason Foundation. They have changed the url to project-reason.org.
I think it’s a better name — shorter and catchier.

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Religious Enforcement in Texas

by VorJack

Saudi Arabia has its mutaween, self-appointed religious police who enforce Sharia law. It looks like Texas is starting to develop its own Christian version.
The Texas Observer has an article about the organization based in Amarillo, Texas, called “Repent Amarillo.” It looks to be a conservative Christian militant group dedicated to harassing and [...]

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