Apologies, too many Father Ted references lately. Anyway, that's what popped into my head when I saw that it wasn't just the Catholics, but the Orthodox church as well, that seems to have a humanity deficiency. A Serbian Orthodox Christian drug rehab center has some rather unorthodox techniques…like beating the crap out of recidivists. Don't watch the video at that link if violence makes you faint: it shows a thug first smacking a guy hard many times with a shovel, then punching and slapping him until he's reeling and falls to the floor. It's a nice touch when he's bounced off a wall and rattles the Orthodox icons hanging there.
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OK, some fluff...it seems that the Greek Neo-Pagans have received permission to worship in pagan temples.
The Lord Our God is One! Check out my results from the Belief-O-Matic below....
Have a look at this interesting article, by Samantha Shapiro at Slate, about the decline of conservative Judaism. She writes:
I did a fun exercise with my Umeå archaeology freshmen Monday: a role-playing debate about the ethics of burial archaeology. The framework was a hearing at the Ministry of Culture regarding a planned revision of the Ancient Monuments Law.