from CBS Some may have called it the “Jesus Phone” but the Vatican sought to remind the faithful that there are limits to mixing the sacraments with technology – even when it comes to the iPhone. A new application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that lists sins to be taken to t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
Worship of Steve Jobs.
On last Friday’s “Real Time,”Bill Maher painted Steve Jobs as “not a corporate type” only to minutes later accurately note, “Apple makes their s–t in China. And they could still make it here and make a big profit, but they make more of a profit by making i[...]
Berkeley Blog: Is Chris Christie a Rational Reprican?
Dan Farber, professor of law | 10/3/11 There’s a lot of buzz about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a possible GOP presidential candidate. As with the other candidates in the race, it seemed like a good idea to check into his positions on environmental issues. The first thing that becomes c[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
Anwar Al-Awlaki Dead: U.S.-Born Al Qaeda Cleric Killed In Yemen al-Awlaki booked for soliciting prostitution, 1997 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi, for whom al-Awlaki was reportedly a spiritual adviser 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar, for whom al-Awlaki was reportedly a spiritual adviser Writing[...]
ACADEME: Note to Rick Perry: The US National Academy is Full of Liberals!
Turkish Academy of Sciences to Lose Its Independence The decree, issued on 27th August, which was just after the start of a nine-day holiday in Turkey, says that one-third of the members of the academy will now be appointed by the government and a further one-third by the Council of Higher Education[...]
SUNDAY REVELATION: on 9/11
What have we learned about religion post-9/11? By Elizabeth Tenety WASHINGTON POST. 2011 (excerpted) On Faith reached out to some of the world’s most influential religious leaders and thinkers to ask about faith in a post-attack world. Below are excerpts from our expert roundtable. Click through[...]
September 11th, 2011 - 7:06 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: India to outlaw some religions
Last year, a childless couple in a remote village some 675km east of Mumbai were arrested for allegedly killing five young boys because a religious mystic told them it would help the woman to conceive. A seven-year-old girl in a village near Nashik, northwest of Mumbai, was killed as part[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Bachmann Preaches
Huff Post — If you thought evangelical preaching needed longer hair, tattoos, nu-metal drumming, and a ton of hate speech directed at gays, then Bradlee Dean is your guy. He’s very much Rep. Michele Bachmann’s guy. Bachmann, whose district covers Dean’s suburban Minnesota hea[...]
How A Rational Man Can Offend the Irrational Repricans
Right Site says Howard Fineman Smears Climate Skeptics By: Scott Whitlock| September 08, 2011 | 18:02 Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared on Hardball, Thursday, to attack Rick Perry’s climate change skepticism as a “war of the worlds between science and faith.” Dismissin[...]
People of color should not vote with everybody else!
Majority-minority? by N in Seattle at HorsesAss has a great post on the effort to increase a “majority minority” Congressional district south of Seattle … you know where all of those black, yellow, brown, people live unless they are Korean, Indian, Lummi, or Chinese. The proponents[...]