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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
[Wendell Phillips, Speech, 7 November 1860]
Category: Religion
Wow. Bill Donohue is going to love Andrew Brown. Brown has written a defense of the Catholic church titled "Catholic child abuse in proportion"; you can tell right away exactly where it is going to be going. 'Only' 4% of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:28 PM • 70 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Reproduction
The Philippines has a problem with a rising number of AIDS cases every year, and members of the government have been promoting a sensible response: Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral has sponsored a program that distributes free condoms, for instance. You...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:37 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pointless polls
There was this young child at a Catholic pre-school who was kicked out because his or her parents were lesbians. Now people are protesting, because that's not what Jesus would do (I won't quibble over their justifications — Jesus probably...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:38 AM • 91 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
There are two very encouraging facts about this article on scientology in the NY Times. One is that it got published. Once upon a time, newspapers and magazines hesitated to criticize scientology at all, because they'd immediately sic an army...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:12 AM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
It certainly isn't the Netherlands. This isn't news any more. News would be an official Catholic organization that wasn't a front for repressed perverts and apologists for child abuse....
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:12 PM • 78 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
A young child at a Boulder pre-school has been kicked out for an awful crime. The child was enrolled in a Catholic preschool, and also has two mommies. I'll leave you to guess which of those two is the awful...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:23 PM • 98 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Back when we bought our house, one of the things that we liked about it is that it's a somewhat quirky place, with an odd layout and a few old 50s touches. One thing I didn't care for is the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:14 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Allow me to purge a few interesting stories from my mailbag: Keshia Canter was working the drive-up window at a burger joint when a sanctimonious customer handed her a pamphlet. Scripture tells us that when a man looks on...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:43 AM • 154 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Or you will be exterminated! You know, Texas has a reputation of being a nasty place full of particularly ignorant rednecks, which I don't blindly agree with — I know too many smart Texans, and it does have many...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:53 PM • 271 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
…is that too often newspapers think you don't need a science journalist to write it. Any ol' hack will do. Take this article on evolution in the Vancouver Sun, which distills modern evolutionary biology into 12 theories, which happens to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:08 PM • 130 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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