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Russia Takes on the Pastafarians 27 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
I’ve always thought that the joke about the Great Spaghetti Monster was a touch on the leaden side, but compared with Russia’s response to the “Pastafarians”… NBC reports: MOSCOW, Russia — The march...
Chávez: Still With us? 25 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Cross-posted on the Corner: The Financial Times reports: [Venezuelan president Maduras] campaigned on the basis that his predecessor spoke to him in the form of a little bird. Last week, he admitted...
The Timeless Appeal of the Apocalypse (Again) 24 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
Cross-posted on the Corner: To my disappointment, I missed this event: Uncivilisation 2013 is a gathering of people searching for answers to questions about our collective future in a rapidly-changi...
Francis & Bloy 22 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
In the Daily Telegraph, Tim Stanley writes: A chance click on a blog by Alejandro Bermúdez, head of the Catholic News Agency, leant me a fascinating insight into [the Pope’s] intellectual character. ...
Meanwhile….. 21 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
Cross-posted on the Corner: Via Bloomberg News: A Jeddah criminal court judge has sentenced Saudi Arabian journalist Raif Badawi to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for the crime of “insulting I...
Rubbish Tories 18 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
Cross-posted on the Corner: If recycling is, as the saying goes, the liberal equivalent of prayer, what does this make the rubbish bins of Britain? Over at the Daily Telegraph, Brendan O’Neill gives...
Pastoral Care 17 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
The BBC reports: Some young HIV patients are giving up their medicine after being told by Pentecostal Church pastors to rely on faith in God instead, doctors warn. Medical staff told the BBC a minor...
Nice One, Kirill (Not) 17 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
Pope Francis thinks that same-sex marriage is the work of the “father of lies”. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, dodgy Putin crony Patriarch Kirill may be even more uneasy. Russia Today repor...
A Slip? 17 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
Over at the Guardian, Nick Cohen highlights an intriguing detail in Pope Francis’s “who am I to judge” remark about homosexuals: Journalists wanted to know whether a “gay lobby” in the Vatican had co...
Religion is not the root of all evil 13 Aug 2013 | 12:32 pm
Obviously. In any case, if you want to read some sordid goings on in the ‘skeptic/rationalist movement’, check it out. You should be able to use Google from then on….
