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Archive for November, 2009
Can the religious right be redeemed?
Posted in Fundamentaism, tagged american fundamentalism, american religious right, christian fundamentalism on November 22, 2009 | 21 Comments »
I have just seen this video from MSNBC and it is disturbing. American Evangelical conservative Christians are praying for Obama’s death. They also are producing and marketing merchandising with Psalm 109: 8-10 which incite to killing the president.
Christian Monitor also published an article about this biblical call to arms. It is sickening!
Is this the message [...]
Atheist Adverts Go on Billboard
Posted in Belief, Religion, Secularism, tagged Atheism, Indoctrination on November 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The coordinator of the atheist bus campaign, Ariane Sherine, has just announced that the final phase of atheist (last ‘installments’) bus adverts are being displayed this week in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast (the capitals), however not on buses this time but on billboards! The adverts target the indoctrination of children.
I wonder whether one could [...]
Welcome into the Ministry
Posted in Arts, Cartooons, Discrimination, Humour on November 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I came across this cartoon on the Naked Pastor blog. I think this is very funny, but sadly true in many churches (fortunately not for the Church of Scotland).
cartoon: exclusivity
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Richard Dawkins defender of faith?
Posted in Anglican Church, Ecumenism, Politics, Religion, Society, tagged Anglican Church, Catholic Church, Richard Dawkins on November 11, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Washington Post recently published a piece in which Richard Dawkins defends the Anglican Church against the Catholic initiative to accept Anglican Clergy. I would have never expected Richard to defend a church such as he does in this article. His partisan views are so obvious as it is his vitriolic attack on the Catholic church.
What [...]
Is Jewishness an invented identity?
Posted in Belief, Identity, Politics, Society, tagged Identity, jewishness, jews, Judaism on November 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Jewish scholar Shlomo Sand has written a book ‘The invention of the Jewish people‘ in which he challenges, what he calls, the historical myth of the formation of the Jewish people. He argues that there was no massive expulsion or migration of Jews from Palestine during the Roman Hellenistic period, contrary to the common [...]
Beware of Atheist Fundamentalists: Michael Ruse on New Atheism
Posted in Belief, Secularism, tagged Fundamentalists, Atheism on November 6, 2009 | 28 Comments »
A polemic started on Guardian website on whether a schism begins to emerge within the atheist ‘movement’ (but some don’t even see atheism as a movement). The polemic is getting hotter and hotter (by the day, if not the hour). It was started by Michael Ruse with an article “Dawkins et al bring us into [...]