God Gives Bad Advice AGAIN
Dallas Woman Says “Signs From God” Led Her To Shoot, Kill Co-Worker (Wendy Hundley/The Dallas Morning News; Aug 27)
A Dallas woman told police that God told her to shoot her longtime co-worker Wednesday morning at a Carrollton pest control business.
Theresa Gail Robbins, 48, was arrested on suspicion of killing Greg Brasch, a McKinney husband and [...]
Hallowed Ground?
“I avoid diarists like itiswelljournal because they are trolls, for the most part – but their latest entry was about the site of the WTC attacks being ‘hallowed ground.’ I pointed out that thousands of people dying in one place does not make it holy, and their note was that with all the thousands of [...]
Maybe I Came Back Too Soon….
I mean, really – how long DO I have to stay away before stories like these become very rare things – or at least stop being a continuing daily plague?
Albino Girl Beheaded In Swaziland “For Witchcraft” (NineMSN; Aug 23)
An albino girl from Swaziland has been shot dead and then beheaded for the sake of [...]
Hi Again
Thanks for all the notes and links! I wish I had the time and energy to respond to each one individually, but… it seems that I barely have the time and energy anymore to feed myself. With any luck at all, that should be changing in the days and weeks ahead. In the meantime, rest [...]
Brief Update
The close relative I mentioned here has now passed away.
In the end, the Jesus she seems to have believed in for virtually all her long life gave her very little if any comfort.
In sharp contrast to this, morphine gave her a lot of comfort.
I’m told morphine was discovered by Friedrich Serturner back in 1804.
If you’re [...]
Near-Death Out-Of-Body Experiences Explained
Or perhaps I should say “explained further” since I’ve previously posted a good deal of interesting information on this subject and related issues. (For details, see the entry I posted on Aug 26, 2007 along with the related links.)
The bottom line is that these so-called mystical events that a lot of people point to as [...]
Five Scandals You May Have Missed
God’s Wheeler Dealer And The Mystery Millions (John Cooney/The Irish Independent; July 3)
It’s been some week for Pope Benedict. It began with his indignant protests against the seizure of secret church files on paedophile priests by Belgian police, then the US Supreme Court ruled that the Vatican no longer had diplomatic immunity and would have [...]
The Continuing Witch Hunts
200 Women Killed Every Year In India After Being Branded “Witches” (The Hindustan Times/The Press Trust Of India; July 25)
Nearly 200 to 150 women are killed every year in India after being tagged as ‘witches’, a Dehra Dun based NGO has said citing National Crime Bureau statistics.
Jharkhand tops the list with 50-60 witchcraft-related [...]
Silly Religious Ritual Claims Yet Another Victim
Baby Drowned During Baptism (The Sun; July 26)
A priest has been accused of drowning a baby as he baptised the tiny tot.
The holy man is being quizzed after the baby’s parents claimed he accidentally drowned their son at the ceremony.
Witnesses claim Father Valentin did not cover the six-week-old tot’s mouth before immersing him in the [...]
More Stories From Boorstin
Super-attentive readers may recall that one of the books I’ve been reading this year is Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination. Like his earlier book, The Discoverers, this one is a sweeping survey of human thought and accomplishment over many, many centuries.
It is also not infrequently a catalog of [...]
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