Daily Archives: 02/11/2010

What happens after the guest speaker has finished his talk at church

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Posted in Humour

Woman died after ambulance driver, two minutes away, refused 999 call while on tea break

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Woman died after ambulance driver refused 999 call while on tea break Relief technician Owen McLauchlan ‘chose’ not to help Mandy Mathieson after she took ill just ‘two minutes away’ from his depot because he was on a ‘rest break’. … Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture, Society

‘Jesus was HIV-positive’: pentecostal South African pastor sparks outrage with bizarre claim

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‘Jesus was HIV-positive’: South African pastor sparks outrage with bizarre claim Pastor Skosana, whose non-denominational Hope for Life Ministry is part of a growing charismatic movement in South Africa, insists his message is more about giving hope than anything else. … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, World Events, Popular Culture, Society

Brendan O’Neill, atheist, reviews QC Geoffrey Robertson’s latest anti-religious diatribe

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The case against Geoffrey Robertson by Brendan O’Neill Has there ever been a man as arrogant as Geoffrey Robertson, otherwise known as Mr Kathy Lette, the British-Australian celebrity QC and floppy-haired hero of the Islington-inhabiting, human rightsy crowd? Pope Benedict XVI – … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews

St. George Jackson Mivart and the paradox of human uniqueness, by Simon Conway Morris

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Don’t miss this excellent short essay on the evolution debate by a professor of evolutionary paleobiology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. John’s College: The Persistent Paradox of Human Uniqueness by Simon Conway Morris The paradox of … Continue reading →

Posted in Sciences, Theology

After the failure of state-enforced atheism, Cuba gets its first new seminary in decades

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Cuba Catholics to open first new seminary in decades   PENALVER, Cuba (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church will open on Wednesday its first new seminary in Cuba in more than half a century in a further sign of its … Continue reading →

Posted in Atheism, Christian Churches

More on Robert Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral and the ‘health and wealth’ heresy

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Robert Schuller II Robert Schuller III: Nepotism Pays

Posted in Fundamentalism

A welcome defeat for militant secularism: school student’s religious freedom to wear rosary beads protected

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A federal court in New York approved a settlement that will cost a school district $22,500 for suspending a student who wore rosary beads. A New York federal district court yesterday approved a settlement in a suit that was brought on … Continue reading →

Posted in Secularism

Another American megachurch pastor reveals he’s gay

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Another American megachurch pastor admits that he’s gay. I know a lot of straight people think orientation is a choice.  I want to tell you that it is not. ~ Pastor Jim Swilley, 52-year-old founder of Church in the Now … Continue reading →

Posted in Fundamentalism

The wheels of justice turn slowly — in the United States at least

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A white man convicted of burning a black church in Massachussetts hours after Obama was elected in 2008 was sentenced to nine years in prison. Amazing.  Does it really take two years to conduct an arson trial in the U.S.?

Posted in Politics, World Events

‘Shut up’: best response yet to atheist Stephen Fry’s odious misogynist views

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Immediate response: shut up, Fry, why don’t you, about stuff you can’t know anything about.  You clearly have odd and unhealthy feelings about the body and its needs. To be good, sex doesn’t have to be really bad, filthy, grubby, … Continue reading →

Posted in Atheism