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Religion 2009

I am off on a speaking tour in the States until the end of October. I wrote, drew, and posted a set of cartoons to provide you with a daily chuckle while I’m away. This is one of those cartoons.

21 oct. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

International

Yom Kippur 2009

The Day of Atonement is upon us again. Tsom Kal, have an easy fast.

25 sep. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

Comment

Earthly Liberals and Heavenly Conservatives

It is very likely that one’s religious perspective of heaven contributes quite substantially to the exercise of their politics on earth. It seems to me that Conservatives, who are more generally focused on earning the rewards of the next life, are (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Frank Staheli

International

Priest and Activist Arrested While Praying at US-MX Border

This news story is about one of the most wonderful human beings I’ve ever met: John Heid. I’m proud to call him my friend. A Catholic priest and a peace activist were arrested yesterday morning during a prayer vigil at a virtual fence (...)

10 Aug. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

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Modern Religion’s Missing Ingredient

With all that traditional religions have done over the centuries to build and mold societies and cultures, they find them self at an impasse. Their appeal to the masses must switch to the individual and they are lacking one key ingredient. I know I am (...)

2 Jun. 2009 | | Pete Latona

International

Scientology’s Hubbard Convicted of Fraud in France, 1978

News articles about L. Ron Hubbard’s conviction

As yet another fraud trial opens for Scientology in France this week, it seems an appropriate time to to review the cult’s legal problems in that country over the years. Few people know that its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, was conviced of fraud there (...)

25 May. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Comment

RCMP and Vatican : The downfall of hierarchical and opaque organization

I’m on the road which is basically the only time I watch TV news and was pleased that I did this evening since I caught Terry Milewski’s excellent follow up piece on the how the RCMP has dealt (or in this case, not dealt) with investigating (...)

22 avr. 2009 | | David Eaves

Comment

South Africa’s Illiberal Foreign Policy Continues

Hot on the heels of the ANC government’s decision to ban his Holiness the Dahlia Lama from attending a peace conference in South Africa, our representative at the United Nation’s Human Rights Council has voted against a resolution on freedom (...)

3 avr. 2009 | | Almost Supernatural

Comment

A Good Latter-day Saint AND a Democrat ? Isn’t That Stretching Things a Bit ?

Mormons, if they really looked, could find more areas where practices of the Republican party clash with their faith than do those of the Democrat party. The self-righteous arrogance of Utah Mormon Republicans, then, is much more than ironic. In some ways (...)

2 avr. 2009 | | Frank Staheli

Comment

Allow to die, or kill ?

Another dispute between parents who wish their child’s medical treatment, however hopeless, to continue, and the hospital doctors, who judge that treatment is burdensome and pointless and should be terminated, has just been decided by the court in (...)

26 mar. 2009 | | Brian Barder

Comment

Stop Press : Catholic Church are behind the world’s villainy !

It’s struck me a number of times over the last year or so that there are a lot of basically good people out there who have acquired a kind of instinctive or reflex-like apathy, distrust or even repulsion toward religion but in particular (...)

28 jan. 2009 | | jultra

Local News

London : Atheist Tube Ad

Many of you will have heard about The Atheist Bus, or rather the bus advertising campaign that was paid for by people who don’t believe in God’s existence. You might have also heard about the bus driver - Ron Heather who refused to drive a bus (...)

27 jan. 2009 | | Annie Mole

Comment

Islam and Christianity in an Ongoing Dialogue: The City as a Space for Brotherhood

Islam and Christianity in an Ongoing Dialogue The City as a Space for Brotherhood Mohammed Hashas Rome, 20 October 2008 The conference on ‘Islam-Christianity: Love and Mercy in Coran and the Bible,’ called for mainly by the (...)

14 Nov. 2008 | | Mohammed Hashas

Politics

Minorities in Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran places the Shiite sect of Islam at the heart of the state apparatus. The "Islamisation" of all life, based on Khomeini’s own interpretation of Islam, is the central policy of the Islamic ruling elite. Religious (...)

10 Nov. 2008 | | Jahanshah Rashidian

Comment

Where’s the Beef...or Should I Say Pork ?

With the Food and Drug Administration’s most recent approval of an antiwrinkle injectible that will keep a person’s face expressionless, an important question must be asked : can the new Evolence, made from the stuff of food-grade pigs, be (...)

17 jui. 2008 | | Bioethics.net

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Do We Really Need Religion?

The poll also reveals that non-believers outnumber believers in Britain by almost two to one. It paints a picture of a sceptical nation with massive doubts about the effect religion has on society: 82% of those questioned say they see religion as a cause (...)

30 Jun. 2008 | | A. Fatih Syuhud

People

Who said marriage was easy ?

Sometimes, life gets the upper hand and drives your days into ...routinious, monotonuous...ous ! I know I’m going through this when the simple act of changing a poopoo diaper becomes too tiring, or when fighting with two precious to close the (...)

28 avr. 2008 | | Farah Kinani

Comment

10 Mar. 2008 | | korotoum

Comment

No smut please, we’re Canadian

It is a nasty world out there, isn’t it? The world is filled with smut and crime, and even when hard-working Canadians come home from work, they see more smut and crime and offensive behaviour on TV. Clearly, someone should put a stop to that. That (...)

3 Mar. 2008 | | Werner Patels

Comment

Another idea of God.

Do you believe in God? That kind of question usually brings two possible answers: yes or no. in the case of the “no”, the problem is solved but we are in a dead-end. One has to find another question quick to keep talking. That one could even (...)

28 Feb. 2008 | | Herve Buschard

Society

Ash Wednesday Marks Start of Lent 2008

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the liturgical fast known as Lent. Hundreds of millions of people the world over will acknowledge the forty-day season of fast which proceeds Easter. Observant Roman Catholics will abstain from meat, fast, and (...)

7 fév. 2008 | | BusinessKnowMoreMedia

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What “Keeping Scientology Working” Means to Me

I’ve seen the video clip where Tom Cruise talks about "Keeping Scientology Working" and thought I should log in with what it means to me as a Scientologist. To really get where I’m coming from, you should know that I looked into Scientology (...)

21 Jan. 2008 | 14 comments | super news

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Objective: Offend as much as possible

The far right claims to defend its values — and freedom of speech. There is a storm front moving right across Canada, as well as other parts of the Western world, and unlike typhoons, which are said to be triggered by a butterfly flapping its (...)

16 Jan. 2008 | 2 comments | Werner Patels

Society

Scientology Recognized in South Africa

The ruling by the South African Revenue Services (SARS), South Africa is the latest in a series of important recognitions for the Scientology religion in 2007. In announcing that the Revenue Services issued the Church a certificate approving its status as (...)

20 Dec. 2007 | | lbwieland

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Mormonism and Cults - What is the Truth ?

Some years ago I met several Mormons in the Armed Forces. They were congenial, polite and a few were a little “pushy” about promoting their religion onto others, even when asked to not solicit their faith. Naomi Schaeffer Riley writes about (...)

14 déc. 2007 | 2 comments | Liberally Conservative

Society

Scientology Recognized in Portugal

Portuguese Scientologists have a very special reason to celebrate this holiday season: the Church has now been officially recognized as a religion in their country. The spokesperson of the Church of Scientology of Portugal, Betty Damasco, expressed the (...)

13 Dec. 2007 | | lbwieland

Society

Scientology expands in Europe

Not only thanks to its prominent members like Tom Cruise or John Travolta Scientology is a hot news items every day. But aside from glamor and gossip the Church of Scientology can mark some major recognitions this year. Since the opening of a series of (...)

11 Dec. 2007 | 3 comments | super news

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People need god to have hope, pope says

In a encyclical on Christian hope, Pope Benedict XVI said that, without faith in God, humanity lies at the mercy of ideologies that can lead to "the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice." The pope further warned that the modern (...)

3 Dec. 2007 | | James Anthony Mehrle, Jr.

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