Ed. This story, now two years old, bears repeating in this election year where the contest is between a born again version of the Know Nothing Party, and the Democrats. For once, I wish my believing friends would accept the words of the Vicar of Christ: Pope Benedict XVI focused his annual addre[...]
Posts Tagged ‘creationism’
BREAKING NEWS: Evangelical christian and daughter of missionaries, disowned by Newt Gingrich for heresy.
Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist, evangelical christian and daughter of missionaries, disowned by Newt Gingrich Gingrich ditched a chapter from his new book on environment just a few days after Hayhoe’s participation in the book came to Limbaugh’s attention. Katharine Hayhoe,[...]
Evangelism Spoils the Sweet Milk of the Sacred Cow
A sacred cow of American politics is that freedom of religion is not the same as freedom from religion. The view from India, a land with a far greater history of religious tolerance than our own, is very different. Excerpted from an essay by Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. Co-Founder/Managing Director, Hind[...]
Taking Money Back to 1492
Back in the day, Spain was awesomely rich! All Ferdinand and Isabella needed to do was to sends ships to America, pick up some gold and few slaves, bring the stuff back and … MONEY!!! Having expelled the smart folks … the Jews and Muslims, the triumphant Spanish Chrsitians, figured this [...]
November 22nd, 2011 - 9:32 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: What The Super Committtee Debacle Means for the NIH
Yesterday President Obama was asked how he would respond to any effort to block the automatic spending cuts without corresponding abandonmment of the huge tax cuts Bush made for the very wealthy. Obama’s sho9srt answer was “NO.” “I will veto any effort to get rid of those aut[...]
Good Reads by Andrew Sullivan
Worth a view.[...]
November 6th, 2011 - 4:49 am § in America
SUNDAY REVELATION: Christian roots, trunk and branches for the Third Reich
Hitler was a True Christian™ from PZ Meyers on Pharygula. If you tuned in to that local debate on Christian radio, you know that one of the points the Christian fool trotted out was the tired old claim that the Nazis were no true Christians — no True Christian™ would ever commit such horrible[...]
October 19th, 2011 - 5:28 pm § in Uncategorized
The Evolution of Rape?
Essay by PZ Myers at Pharyngula based on an article titled “Darwin’s Rape Whistle: Have women evolved to protect themselves from sexual assault?“, ….. The story is that women have evolved specific adaptive responses to the threat of rape. In support of this conclusion, the au[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Decoding Romney’s views of the historical origins of marriage.
“My view is a society recognizes that the ideal setting for raising a child is when you have the benefit of two people working together and where one is male and one is female. I happen to believe that and that’s the reason that I think as a society we say, ‘You know what? We[...]
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