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Christianity ‘could die out within a century’
By Laura Clout
Last Updated: 2:40PM BST 20/06/2008
More than half of Britons think Christianity is likely to have disappeared from the country within a century, according to a survey.
Research by the Orthodox Jewish organisation Aish found that just over a third of people thought religions like Christianity and Judaism would still be practiced in Britain in […]
Free EA software release spawns ’sporn’
It’s a double-edged sword, this user-generated content thing
It’s a simple equation that marketers can’t seem to grasp: The Internet plus free modeling tools equals giant dancing penises.
So it goes for Creature Creator, the free trial tool Electronic Arts released on Tuesday to herald the marketing blitz for the September shipment of its long-awaited “Spore” game. […]
Inside “The Family”: Jeff Sharlet Speaks About His Unique Look at American Evangelicals
Six years ago journalist Jeff Sharlet went undercover in the underground evangelical organization known as the “The Family.” The group consists of Congressmen, members of the executive branch and many other D.C. powerbrokers. Unlike Pat Robertson and other widely known Christian conservatives, the Family operates outside of the public eye — but that by no […]
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Why the Nations Rage: Killing in the Name of God
By Christopher Catherwood. Published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Religious leaders normally argue that religion is a force for good and love in the world. Yet, at the same time, we see religion regularly used for war, mass murder, and even genocide. Why does this difference exist - how can religion be claimed as a basis […]
MySpace can collect $6 million from spammer
BOSTON - MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colorado, must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney’s fees for barraging MySpace […]
One in four don’t believe in God, poll finds
Fewer than three-quarters of Canadians believe in a god, suggests a new Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey.
“Religion in Canada today is not a particularly divisive subject and tolerance levels for different beliefs are high,” said Harris-Decima president Bruce Anderson. “This is evident in the fact that one in four people feel comfortable saying they do not […]
Authenticity, atheism key to Swedish songwriter’s success
“It’s still just me and my guitar, but it is much more about the spirit of trying to get your fist in the air and a move away from the love songs. I think I was very influenced by world events,” he said.
Gonzalez, who studied for a Phd in biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, […]
Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
Geert Wilders, conservative Dutch politician and provocateur, has become the latest projectile in the world’s most important culture war: the zero-sum conflict between civil society and traditional Islam. Wilders, who lives under perpetual armed guard due to death threats, recently released a 15 minute film entitled Fitna (”strife” in Arabic) over the internet. The film […]
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Christianism In The Military - Andrew Sullivan
One of the darkest developments of many dark developments in the Bush years has been the slow ascent of Christianism as a core value of the military. The promotion of Christianists throughout the armed services, the insistence by the president that no public institution be regarded as a place where religion should be silent, clear […]
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Connecticut Woman Says She Stole Hundreds of Paintings to Prepare for Apocalypse
WATERBURY, Conn. — A 53-year-old Waterbury woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 150 paintings reportedly after God told her the end of the world is near.
Diane Catalani was arrested last year. According to court documents, Catalani told a psychologist that she hoarded what she stole to show God before the Apocalypse that […]
Austrians Debate Last Supper Orgy Art That Sparked Furor
VIENNA, Austria — Is it art — or is it blasphemy?
Austrians are locked in a nationwide debate touched off by the brief display in a prestigious Roman Catholic museum of an etching that depicts Jesus Christ and his disciples having an orgy during the biblical Last Supper.
A chastened and chagrined Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the […]
Bondage of the Mind
Most of us involved with issues of critical thinking are accustomed to dealing with what we think of as fundamentalism, which implies specifically Christian fundamentalism. Bondage of the Mind deals, specifically, with Jewish fundamentalism. Just as evangelicalism, and particularly evangelical fundamentalism, is a potent force in Christianity, so too is modern Orthodox Judaism […]
10Apr2008 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
The IRA Mortgage Bond
By Stan Muse
rsmuse@charter.net
The US economy is in serious trouble due to the recent mortgage crisis and resulting inventory of houses on the market. The Federal Reserve has taken positive action, but has nearly reached the limits of what it can do by cutting the Federal Funds rate and backing illiquid institutions. There is an immediate […]
Dawkins to Appear on Episode of Dr Who
Best-selling writer Professor Richard Dawkins will appear in the current series of Doctor Who as himself, according to reports.
Showrunner Russell T Davies revealed the casting of the popular author and biologist to The Independent and spoke of the impact of Dawkins’s presence during filming. “People were falling at his feet,” said Davies. “We’ve had Kylie […]
Battlestar Galactica Summary
April 2, 2008 |
When the “Battlestar Galactica” miniseries premiered in 2003, viewers could be forgiven for having low expectations. At the time, the Sci Fi Channel, on which “Battlestar” aired, was a niche cable channel known mostly for “Stargate SG-1″ and “Star Trek” reruns, and the show’s source material, a cheesy ’70s flop for ABC, […]
If I Only Had a Brain
Ten days ago, I noted the reckless assertion of Barack Obama’s former pastor that the United States government had deliberately engineered AIDS to kill blacks, but I tried to put it in context by citing a poll showing that 30 percent of African-Americans believe such a plot is at least plausible.
My point was that the […]
Sex takes 3 to 13 minutes, study says
NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn’t take long to satisfy a woman in bed.
A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike […]
Bad Religion Singer Gets Award for Atheism
There’s more than a cool band name at work here: Bad Religion front man Greg Graffin will receive an award from a Harvard-based atheist intellectual’s community.
Graffin is slated to receive the highest honor from Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University, its Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism for his one-two punch of promoting scientific […]
Taking Christ Out of Christianity
That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, Jesus Christ Has Risen Today – Hallelujah, this morning will rock the walls of Toronto’s West Hill United Church as it will in most Christian churches across the country.
But at West Hill on the faith’s holiest day, it will be done with a huge difference. The […]
Naturalistic Religion?
[snip] As I examine the nature of our environment, I discover sovereign forces able to create floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, as well as roses, rainbows, pine trees, and snowflakes, and with this realization I am stirred with a sense of awe, wonder, and reverence. Humans are at the mercy of these natural forces, which […]
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