A post on David Thompson’s blog brought this article to my attention.
DAKAR, Senegal - The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.
Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world’s Muslim nations are considering taking legal [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2008 by pwyll
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There are (at least) two sorts of atheists. One sort, the hard atheists, cannot take seriously the idea of God. They consider believers to be misguided simpletons, at best. The other sort of atheist tries to understand the ideas by which the majority of humanity understands the world. I am one of the latter. I [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by pwyll
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The treasures of the internet are endless. Today I had the pleasure of discovering The Canadian, Canada’s new socially progressive and cross-cultural national newspaper. The Canadian knows what’s what, and it pulls no punches:
Researchers suggest that Jesus may have been a descendant of Black human being-looking Extraterrestrial time-travellers. Indeed, Jesus had been depicted [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by pwyll
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WWBD:
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai officials urged Buddhist monks on Tuesday to avoid using social networking Web sites to woo women after an advocacy group found some monks were doing just that.
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“Instead of using the Net to flirt with young girls, monks should find ways to preach Dharma and lead them in the right direction,” said [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by pwyll
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Some good news out of Europe.
(CNN) — Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago. The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked widespread outrage in the Muslim world two years ago.
The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by pwyll
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I have argued that the arguments of many proponents of anthropogenic global warming are religious, not scientific. Today I learned via Classical Values that Vanity Fair magazine agrees with me.
The Classical Values piece is not to be missed. I content myself with republishing a couple of illustrations borrowed from it. Note to self: I [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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