Scientologists believe that 75 trillion years ago an inter-galactic dictator called Xenu brought his people to earth, and there he massacred them. Their souls now torment modern human beings. Scientology, founded by Ron Hubbard owes its current prosperity mainly to a single Hollywood star, Tom Cruise. It is accused of prising vulnerable people away from …
A few weeks ago residents in a slum district of Islamabad spotted Rifta Masih, an 11-year-old girl from a minority Christian family, “acting suspiciously”; she was holding the charred remains of pages from the Koran having apparently set fire to them. Now she’s jail accused of blasphemy, for which she could even be sentenced …
In June the Vatican censured The Leadership Conference of Women Religious for violating Church teaching on issues including birth control and homosexuality, and adopting “certain radical feminist themes”. At its annual conference the nuns agreed to resume discussions with Rome about the future of the Leadership Conference, but has warned that it will call off the …
Epicurus said that there were no rewards and punishments after death because there was no one out there to reward or punish you. The idea of hell-fire and damnation are fairy tales designed by control freaks to make you conform, be a good dutiful citizen, refrain from complaining about such minor matters as corruption and …
The Catholic church’s relationship with the Obama administration reached a new low when the administration ruled that employers had to offer birth control without co-pay as part of the new health reform law. “Obama threatens religious freedom,” thunder the bishops. Religious liberty is under attack at home and abroad, they claim. How does one answer …
