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St Bernard savages creationist theory

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

THE St Bernard dog – named after the 11th century priest Bernard of Menthon – provides the latest proof that creationist thinking is just plain wrong.
Biologists at The University of Manchester say that changes to the shape of the breed’s head over the years can only be explained through evolution and natural selection, according [...]

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We give the Saudis fighter jets, whiskey and whores – and they give us hate material and terrorism

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Arse-kissing exercises are never pretty to behold, but the one currently being lavished on King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia by the British Government is more sickening than most.
On the day the corpulent tyrant King arrived in the UK, the Independent revealed that one in four British mosques contained hate material.
Researchers uncovered propaganda calling for homosexuals [...]

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‘Liberal’ Pastor is bent on dragging Australia back into the Dark Age of Faith

Monday, October 29, 2007

AS A Christian, I do not agree with the idea of homosexuality. That’s the reality. I can’t put it any other way. I certainly could never change my views that homosexuality is a perversion, because it is a perversion.
That’s the view of Federal Liberal candidate Pastor Peter Curtis, who added that gays die of disease [...]

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Ham sandwich blunder could cost taxpayers millions

Sunday, October 28, 2007

SCORES of Muslim inmates at a high security prison are set to launch a multi-million pound claim for compensation after they were offered ham sandwiches during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a report by Paul Sims in the Daily Mail on Friday.
They say their human rights were breached when they were given a [...]

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And it came to pass – or didn’t!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

A BOY has been refused a bus pass because he doesn’t do superstition. At least, he has not had the mumbo-jumbo intoned over his protesting infant head while a man in flowing garb sprinkles water on him.
And, because of that, eleven-year-old Elliott Stewart has been denied his free pass to travel by bus to St Leonard’s [...]

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Ecclesiastical catfight over global warming intensifies

Friday, October 26, 2007

The Freethinker award for the most absurd (and funniest) quote of the week goes to the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell.
My task as a Christian leader is to engage with reality, to contribute to debate on important issues, to open people’s minds and to point out when the emperor is wearing few or no [...]

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Cocking up a funeral the Christian way

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

AS of Monday this week, at least 3,836 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 – and 28,327 US service members have been wounded in hostile action there. But, as American military families mourn their dead, and tend to their injured, they might like to [...]

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Christian magistrate ‘was right to resign’

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

When individuals cannot allow their religious loyalties to be trumped by their public responsibilities, they should resign; the alternative is for the public domain to be invaded and disrupted by a Babel of claimed individual religious sensitivities, or even worse, by various religious organisations whose prejudices, taboos, anxieties and antipathies distort the overall public endeavour [...]

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The outing of Albus

Monday, October 22, 2007

AND so we learn that Dumbledore is one of those! No, not the occasional star of this blog of late, the Archwizard of Cant, bearded, behatted and the bearer of weird eyebrows, but the Dumbledore, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (or ex-headmaster, depending on which book you [...]

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Iranian Dissident Wins Secularist of The Year Prize

Monday, October 22, 2007

A WOMAN who has spent her life opposing the mistreatment of women by the Iranian clerical regime has been awarded the £5,000 prize for Secularist of the Year by the National Secular Society.
Mina Ahadi, an Iranian exile now living in Germany, was presented with the prize in London on Saturday (20 October). In his statement [...]

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