I applaud the manner in which the Coptic Orthodox Church recently appointed its new Pope. Pope Tawadros II was chosen by a blindfolded boy (randomly chosen from a line-up of 12) , who picked his name from a chalice. The chalice contained the names of three candidates shortlisted following a consultation involving 2,400 electors, whose …
Some people believe that religions are superstitions devised by people who lust for power and control over their fellow men. Sometimes, it is said, they are also simply a means of making a living for a charlatan or faux wizard (viz. the founder of the Mormans). But how effective they can be! Witness the number …
The Sisters of Mary, a Catholic organization based in Ohio, have made a video claiming that contraception makes women unattractive to men, makes them murderers, that it turns men gay and that it makes them have sex with dogs. (Truly!) The nuns site a study in which a male chimp rejected his sexual partners after …
In any war between the civilized man and the savage support the civilized man. Support Israel – Defeat Jihad. This is the wording of an ad just put up in the New York Metro by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an extremist advocacy group. When I first read it I thought it must have …
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“The Chief Rabbi of England has accused atheist Professor Richard Dawkins of using an “anti-Semitic stereotype” in his best-selling book The God Delusion by saying the God of the Old Testament was “the most unpleasant character in all fiction”. Dawkins dismissed the allegation as “ridiculous” and said he was not “anti-Jewish” just “anti-God”.” Has the …
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