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The comment that has stirred up the most condemnation from the press is Richard Dawkins' mention of "Pope…Nazi," which everyone assumes was about the current Pope. Wrong. Everyone knows the current Pope is most properly addressed as "Pope Palp...
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Emancipated from the rigor of science, we are free to propose any fanciful idea and exercise our imaginations to the fullest — all that matters is that you have a cool story with T-rexes biting the heads off people.
Get right on this one, Di...
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The undying thread needs a rejuvenation. Here's a pornographic video to get you excited.
As I mentioned, I'm away from my wife during our 30th anniversary, but she doesn't have to worry — after seeing Australian courtship rituals, I cannot b...
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You might recall that I’ve been promoting this guy’s work for a little while. I think it’s one of the best amateur video series to come around in a long time, and I think it’s the perfect kind of thing to send to a friend who...
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Hi everyone, this is Ron Gold.
Latino-Americans have traditionally been dependable Catholics, though they are slowly but surely becoming more religiously diverse, as seen below:
Notice the number who report no religion has almost doubled from 1990 ...
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That prior clarification was not intended to exculpate the current pope: Hitchens rips into the guilty monster occupying the Vatican. Good stuff. Read the comments on this post......
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A CATHOLIC adoption society has won a High Court battle over laws forcing it to consider gay couples as parents, according to a BBC report today.
Leeds-based Catholic Care had warned it would be forced to give up its work finding homes for ...
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Kent Hovind's infamous alma mater has put together a collection of responses because they are "under attack!" Only they aren't—they're being laughed at. And whoa, these pages are even more hilarious. (Warning: all of the links below go to pages...
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Can we reconcile science and religion?
The host of American Public Media’s Speaking of Faith, Krista Tippett, believes we can. She calls them both “pursuits of cohesive knowledge and underlying truths” and does not believe they are necessa...
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Amidst the heady swirl of controversy surrounding the Catholic Church (with more and more evidence of priestly misconduct and of their highly organized protection of these offenders), a UK judge has allowed a Catholic adoption agency to openly discri...
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Dayton is Oslo sent me this interesting email (I cut out the sycophantic niceties for the sake of brevity)
I wanted to inquire about your opinions regarding the issue of respect in relation to other peoples’ religious or spiritual beliefs. I b...
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I recently overheard a very disturbing conversation. One woman was very upset because her friend was on his deathbed due to cancer. She was telling her friend about it and her friend asked her if the dying friend “knew the Lord.”
I was just overh...
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by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Dear Bleaders,
We’re here on this blog together because we don’t believe in Dog, right? Strike that, reverse it, reinstate.
Look. I call my way of seeing things Poetic Atheism. I don’t believe in anything supernat...
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It’s a question that you have to ask anytime you hear pastors say something ridiculous: Do they really believe that? Sadly, the answer is usually yes… but it’s not always the case.
Author Daniel Dennett and clinical social worker L...
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Legal observers have noted for some time that the laws governing defamation in the United Kingdom are far more plaintiff-friendly than similar laws in the U.S. In the U.S., anyone claiming they were libeled has to prove that the allegedly libelous st...
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As a literary form, the gospels have a lot in common with biographies. They also have many similarities to martyrologies, lives of philosophers, and even the aretologies (stories of "virtue") of heroic figures. Ultimately, though, the gospels seem to...
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by VorJack
As I was afraid it would, the child abuse scandal for the Catholic Church in Germany is spreading. However, it’s also climbing.
One of the marks against Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, before he became Pope Benedict XVI, was the suspici...
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(Listen to other episodes of Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot here.)
Today I interview philosopher and theologian Eric Reitan. Among other things, we discuss:
Why are conservative Christians obsessed with gays?
Religion as an essentially contes...
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AN 82-year-old Catholic priest, father Marques Barbosa, became an unwitting porn star when he was shown on Brazilian TV last week having sex with a youth aged 19.
He was the “star” turn in a report on the SBT TV programme Conexao Report...
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