Why So Many Pakistanis Hate Their Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dissing its Nobel laureates is a bit of a tradition in Pakistan, too. Before Malala, in 1979, Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize for Physics. He, too, is a pariah in Pakistan, rarely acknowledged and never claimed as the “pride” of the [...]
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November 9th, 2014 - 1:00 am § in Religion
Sunday Revelations: Thunder, The Perfect Mind
(Above image of the Gospel of Thomas courtesy of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University) Visit the Bookstore for a complete selection of translations and books about the Gnostic Gospels. The Nag Hammadi Library The Thunder[...]
The Beginning of Winter Holidays Is Not a Happy Season for All
Muharram, a Muslim month devoted to mourning. Ashura, the tenth of the month, is a day of awe in Shi’a Islam, familiar in the west as scenes of self flagellation. In Shia Islam the month marks the schism from Sunni, when the Sunni caliph killed the last relative of the Prophet, Ali, and ended [...]
The Hypocrisy in The Terms “White” and “People of Color”
I am offended by the terms “people of color” and “white.” Last spring Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard ignited a controversy about campus diversity with his use of the word “white.” Conservatives picked on Dr. Shepard, saying “heR[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Of Porn and Pew .. the connection
A Study of Google searches for porn shows a high correlation between the bible, or at least folks who belong to churches, and porn from websites similar to fucked gay. The Bible Belt is the Porn Belt. Smut in Jesusland: Why Red-State Conservatives Are the Biggest Porn Hounds As usual, South Carolina[...]
November 1st, 2014 - 7:00 pm § in Religion
Bill Maher, Ayan Hirsi Ali, Islamic Bigotry, and Liberal Hypocrisy
We are in the midst of a period of false outrage (especially on Fox News) combined with liberal hypocrisy. A good example of this furor in the right wing webosphere reporting on a story about an Islamic school in Toronto where pre schoolers were being instructed in the finer art of beheading.[...]
October 31st, 2014 - 4:43 pm § in Religion
Mars Hill Church, 1996-2014, R.I.P.
Mars Hill Church is history. Church leaders announced today they plan to break up the church into independent congregations, sell buildings whose loans aren’t assumed by congregations, and lay off the entire central office staff. While the plan contemplates that some of its branch churches m[...]
October 26th, 2014 - 12:11 pm § in Religion, The Ave Scene
Is Religion an Issue in Elections Here?
I do not know Mark Miloscia at all, but why shouldn’t a strong religious stand be an issue for any candidiate? Religions do take moral and political stands … as do certain companies (AKA Hobby Lobby or Koch). Does anyone seriously doubt that Mitt Romney ‘s religion was an appro[...]
SUNDAY REVELATION: Belief that God is essential to morality in INVERSELY proportional to national wealth.
The Pew Research Center published a survey. The results of the survey of people in 40 countries shows that belief that God is essential to morality in INVERSELY proportional to national wealth. [...]
Flying With Jesus By Our Airmen’s Sides
A member of the US Airforce was told that he could not reenlist unless he added phrase “so help me God” to his contract. The airman was “told by his superiors that he must swear to God or leave the Air Force,” according to a complaint filed by the American Humanist Assoc[...]