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Sunday school was never like this

Sunday, November 25, 2007

NOT all Americans are Bible-totin’, scripture-quotin’, Republican votin’ rednecks who think they have a hotline to Jesus, though you might be excused for harbouring such an image when the right-wing Bible Belters get going.
Indeed, as this story is published during a Sunday morning, a bunch of kids in the USA will soon (we’re allowing for [...]

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Dangerous materials: children’s story threatens to destroy entire universe

Saturday, November 24, 2007

IT’S just a story. Let’s say it again, louder: it’s just a storr-eeee!
Hmm. Doesn’t seem to have done much good. They’re still obsessing about Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, wondering if it’ll poison the impressionable minds of schoolkids and turn them against God.
To judge by the current brouhaha, you wouldn’t think the first book [...]

Mea culpa!

Friday, November 23, 2007

A ROMAN Catholic prelate in Canada seems to have felt the need to confess sins – his church’s, though, not his own.
He’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who is Archbishop of Quebec City and Primate of Canada. According to a story in the Globe and Mail, he has “admitted that some Catholics’ narrow-minded attitudes in the past [...]

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Christian Voice: Some Pertinent Questions

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

STEPHEN Green’s efforts in the Administrative Court this week to bring a private prosecution for the common-law offence of blasphemous libel against Jerry Springer: the Opera, prompted one blogger to do a little digging into Green’s egregious little outfit, Christian Voice.
And his investigation seems to confirm something we had always suspected: CV is a one-man [...]

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Councillor accused of banishing God

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

SIGNS like this could appear in public buildings thoughout the UK if secularists get their way.
That’s the view of Roman Catholic Father Paul Daly, parish priest of Saint Joseph’s in Heywood, who this week accused Rochdale Councillor Robin Parker of attempting to “banish God from the public arena”.
We could be treated with the sight [...]

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Blustering US church leader vows to take over Microsoft

Monday, November 19, 2007

THEY are quaking in their boots over at Microsoft headquarters – not with fear that they are about to be taken over by an army of fundamentalist Christian wingnuts – but with laughter.
The source of their mirth is a posturing tosspot called Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys player, and the self- proclaimed [...]

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