Found this in keori's journal, and it's worth repeating. Stephen Frye on the evils of the organization which calls itself the Catholic Church.

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About "honor" killings.


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Two items in recent news have me ... almost speechless, for the moment. As you may know, that's hard to accomplish when I actually have something to say.

First was an article in last Friday's Fort Carson Mountaineer (.pdf, 6.1M), written by a chaplain on the installation. The article is on Page 14. Here's a short excerpt:

My friend, Bruce, ( Read more... )

A British teacher in Sudan will "probably be released soon" after facing whipping and jail time ... for naming a teddy bear "Mohammed." Story here: The GuardianSo, let me get this straight: When some asshat who has more fanaticism than sense blows himself up along with about 30 innocent people, he's not insulting Islam even if his name is ( Read more... )

According to a PhysicsWeb news story, a recent article in the science journal Nature suggests that reality may not exist when we're not keeping an eye on it. Here's a brief summary:

Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete theories, which ( Read more... )

If you haven't read this article on what "religious freedom" means to the religious right, go read it right fucking now. And after you're done reading it, start writing letters. Write to their school board, write to your Congressman, write to the ACLU and Amnesty International.

Thanks to conuly for the heads-up on this story.