The Texas State Supreme Court last week ruled that a church member had no right to sue a church for damages inflicted to her in the course of “church activities for which members adhere.” The case involved a 17-year-old girl who happed to be a victim of a “spiritually charged” garage sale preparation in which …
Category Archive: current events
May 25 2008
A quick reminder why science is the coolest thing ever
Latest reason: It lets us go to Mars!
May 22 2008
The cost of abandoning reason is measured in lives
From the news today: A group of up to 300 young men killed 11 people who were accused of being witches and wizards in western Kenya, in some cases slitting their throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies, officials said…. “The villagers are complaining that the (suspected) wizards and witches are making …
May 09 2008
Why abandoning reason is, like, bad
In the news today: Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home’s only bathroom, on the advice of a religious “superior” who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities said Friday… She said she propped Middlesworth on …
Apr 28 2008
Two disparate Christian responses to high gas prices
One of these is the usual parade of batshit crazy, and the other is a comparatively rare case of a church doing what we’re meant to believe churches do all the time: something good for their community. Makes sense that the latter is located in Austin, where people have a tendency to be pretty cool, …
Apr 16 2008
Pedophilia enabler warns against “America’s brand of secularism”
Pope Ratzo is touring the U.S., about which some people with nothing better to do apparently give a shit. Amazingly, there are still those who actually think the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church still have some kind of moral authority as an institution that deserves to be leading the world, rather than what it …
Mar 08 2008
Blasphemy is, as they say, a victimless crime
Over in the UK, the population may be predominately non-religious, or at least indifferent to religion, in stark opposition to the way Americans can’t seem to get enough of the stuff. But it’s only been this week that the House of Lords* voted to strike down the nation’s laws against blasphemy. Nice of them to …
Feb 14 2008
SBOE forced to table adoption of Donna Garner’s “alternative” Language Arts curriculum
The TFN reports today that angry responses from educators as well as the general public have persuaded them to hold off, at least temporarily, the adoption of an “alternative” language arts curriculum put together by a former teacher and current Christian-right homophobe and ideologue named Donna Garner. Creationist Dan McLeroy, who heads up the SBOE, …
Feb 06 2008
15-year-old Boy Scout massacres family
You know what they say: Be prepared. Hey, at least he wasn’t gay or an atheist. That would be immoral!
Jan 30 2008
Mid-week schadenfreude
And another lying fundagelical scumbag goes down! Daniel Thompson ran a video store and online video club called Clean Flix, where people could rent “family friendly” versions of R-rated movies that Thompson had personally edited the sex and profanity out of. Thompson had already raised the ire of Hollywood for possible copyright violations in doing …
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