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What a difference a gay makes!

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Is anyone any the wiser about where the Episcopalians stand on the Gay Issue? Take this one passage from the Ekklesia website:
The Episcopal Church’s decision has produced very different interpretations in the media. The Guardian’s Stephen Bates has “US bishops offer lifeline in effort to keep world Anglican church intact”. Telegraph reporter Jonathan Petre says [...]

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Signs and wonders in Surbiton

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The words pot and kettle come to mind as a woman who claims the Virgin Mary has appeared in a pine tree at her home has been dismissed as a fraud.
By the Catholic Church.
Yes.
The Catholic Church.
You couldn’t make it up.
This apparition has been appearing for about 20 years at 67-year-old Patricia De Menezes’s home in [...]

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God’s in his Tube and all’s well with the world

Monday, September 24, 2007

God moves in mysterious ways. Now it’s up (or down) the tube. From the people who invented God (i.e. religionists), here’s GodTube. We kid you not.
Never let it be said that The Freethinker is not willing to introduce its blog readers to new and challenging ideas. Take this (cited by a piece on the Boston [...]

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(Non-)Muslims Against Sharia

Monday, September 24, 2007

Muslims Against Sharia burst onto the scene last week with its announcement of a counter-bounty on the head of the probably-imaginary Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (al Qaeda’s own version of Keyser Soze). Bearing the slogan “Acknowledging Mistakes, Accepting Responsibities, Moving Forward” they seemed almost too good to be true. Unfortunately, they almost certainly are - as [...]

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Muslim rage escalates over Mocat cartoon – more stuff gets burned and killings are called for

Sunday, September 23, 2007

ANGRY Muslims in Dhaka have called for the killing of a Bangladeshi editor and a cartoonist.
Earlier this week, a large number of police were deployed near the Baitul Mokarram mosque and outside the office of Prothom Alo when hundreds of Muslims took to the street, demanding “death to the editor” and “hang the cartoonist.” [...]

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‘God’ Responds To Lawsuit, claiming ‘No Jurisdiction’

Friday, September 21, 2007

LINCOLN USA - A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has received something he may not have expected: a response from the deity, according to an AP report.
According to John Friend, clerk of the Douglas County District Court in Omaha, “God” filed a response to a suit brought against him last week By [...]

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