Religion
Pharyngula
Category archives for Religion
We need a petition to urge a school to tolerate menstruating girls?
Posted by PZ Myers on July 24, 2011 What has the world come to? Valley Park Middle School in Toronto has made a very special provision to make Muslim students happy: they allow them to use the cafeteria for private prayer (to which I have no objection), and then obligingly segregate the boys from the girls, and because it is so very important,…
I can’t keep up with these teen fads
Posted by PZ Myers on July 23, 2011 Christian knees are trembling, sensing imminent doom brought on by juvenile fantasy literature. Which is ironic, considering that they worship a big sloppy book that fits perfectly into the genre. Anyway, first there was the Harry Potter series, which turned all the teenagers into Wiccans (what?); then there was the Twilight series, that has led…
Baby killers!
Posted by PZ Myers on July 22, 2011 Religion leads to moral bankruptcy, and can be used to justify anything. What else can you say when crazy theologians argue for murder? Rabbis Dov Lior and Yacob Yousef had endorsed a highly controversial book, the King’s Torah – written by two lesser-known settler rabbis. It justifies killing non-Jews, including those not involved in violence,…
A lump of excrement by any other name…
Posted by PZ Myers on July 22, 2011 The Campus Crusade for Christ is changing their name. They’ve decided that they aren’t just about “campuses”, which is great; maybe they can quit poisoning our universities then. They’ve also, after a mere 60 years, realized that “crusade” has negative connotations to a lot of people, so they’re dropping that, too. Their new name? “Cru”.…
Now this is a creepy stereotype
Posted by PZ Myers on July 22, 2011 “Little girl, would you like some candy?” Somebody didn’t think things through when they decided that this was a good strategy for proselytizing. An Edmonton mother is outraged after members of a local church approached her daughter on a playground – offering a Bible verse, candy and a promise that if she memorized the passage…
The many failings of the Catholic church
Posted by PZ Myers on July 21, 2011 Now that the Cloyne report is available, the perfidy of the Catholic church is directly measurable. Michael Nugent has tallied up a list of all the documented, unambiguous cases of Irish Catholic officials lying — just blatant, undeniable, flat out lying to investigators. I’m pretty sure that’s against one of their commandments. If you want…
It could be worse, part I
Posted by PZ Myers on July 21, 2011 We could be Christians. Answers in Genesis distributes a little quiz about modesty: I took it and failed. Most of the questions assume clothing is defined by God, that the purpose of clothing is to hide sexuality, and the focus is almost entirely on women — look at questions #9 and #10, for instance. That…
Ireland stands up to the Catholic Church
Posted by PZ Myers on July 20, 2011 Last week, the Cloyne report was released. This document describes patterns of child abuse and in particular the willful intransigence of the Catholic church in correcting the problems in Ireland, and it’s pretty damned damning. One significant detail: the Church’s defense in recent months consists of claiming priestly pedophilia was a thing of the past,…
Remind me not to do anything suspicious in LA, ever
Posted by PZ Myers on July 20, 2011 Somehow, I get the impression I wouldn’t get a fair shake. “Hey! You there! Hands up! I see you walking while wearing socks with sandals on a Sunday! We’re takin’ you in to the Ecclesiastical Court!”
Why are they even debating this?
Posted by PZ Myers on July 20, 2011 The UK has been having a debate about Sharia law in the House of Commons. Why, I don’t know; it’s so regressive and oppressive, such a step backward, that it ought to be simply dismissed out of hand. Maryam Namazie gave a speech opposing Sharia law, and here’s a small piece of it. After all,…