Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The reality of today’s world is that people come and go all the time, it is no big deal … they join churches, they leave churches. What surprises me regarding some recent news is not that it happened, but rather that it is news at all. An atheist blogger, Leah Libresco, announced on her blog that … Read more
The news is that the Equality Network (a group that works for equality and human rights in Scotland) commissioned Ipsos-MORI to survey Scottish attitudes towards marriage and found that of 1,003 people asked, 64 percent supported the idea of allowing gay and straight couples an equal right to marry. Hey, that’s quite good news. Ah but not everybody thinks … Read more
First the background – Hopefully you are already familiar with it all A couple of months ago Sanal Edamaruku, the President of the Indian-based skeptic organization Rationalist International, was invited by an Indian TV channel (TV-9) to visit a Catholic Church in Mumbai to offer his opinion of a claimed miracle. He is well-known in … Read more
People get offended by many things … smoking, chewing gum, spitting, etc… but there is apparently one very special category of offence in Spain, “offending religious feelings”, apparently that will potentially get you jail time. The news is that one of Spain’s leading underground artists has been charged with this, appeared in court and now faces … Read more
We all know about the abuse, and are now aware it was not simply about a few bad priests, but also involved a quite frankly criminal conspiracy to protect the abusers and so enabled them to continue to molest thousands over many decades without fear of any consequences at all. They claim that everything has … Read more
Its darn weird, but modern Catholicism appears to be committed to ripping itself apart. Last April, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – (yep, that’s the Inquisition, still alive and kicking but with a different name) – issued an assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. ..nuns were too “silent on the right to … Read more