Apologetics
Professions that attract the most psychopaths
Professions that attract the most psychopaths From: news.com.au November 07, 2012 11:29AM Psychopaths gravitate towards powerful jobs They thrive in jobs that require cutthroat decisions Psychopaths thrive in professions that offer power and require cutthroat decision making. Picture: Thinkstock IF you work in a law firm, media company or police station take a look around. Slowly. You […]
Democracy and the ‘Tytler Cycle’
(Note: there may be some creative reworking of quotes here… but my question is: is it true in any respect? Rowland. ) Misquotation – Tytler Cycle The following unverified quotation has been attributed to Tytler, most notably as part of a longer piece which began circulating on the Internet shortly after the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. […]
Fundamentalism and anti-bullying events
How Christian fundamentalism feeds the toxic partisanship of US politics When evangelicals attack ‘the gay agenda’ of an anti-bullying event in schools, something is sick in America’s religious culture. Katherine Stewart The Guardian, Thursday 25 October 2012 A gathering of evangelical Christians in Washington. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Reuters Mix It Up at Lunch Day is one of […]
Spoonbending: what’s the use of it?
Psychic buster sees some unbelievable times ahead Date October 27, 2012 Lawrence Money TV host Don Lane kicks James Randi off his show in 1980. ”ONE of the weirdest claims,” says international psychic-buster James Randi, ”was the woman who said she had the power to make men urinate when she willed it. One of our […]
Christian Bias? A Sociology Study on Gay Parents
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings  10/22/2012 Christian Bias? A Sociology Study on Gay Parents  — Martin E. Marty Sightings, at least in its Monday column releases, regularly classifies many topics dubbed “church and state†as being unsolvable. We have quoted Walter Berns who wrote that […]
‘I was a monster, a thief. I stole people’s lives.’ The Washington sniper Lee Boyd Malvo speaks, 10 years on
For three weeks in 2002, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Mohammad terrorised a nation. While Mohammad was put to death for murdering 16 people at random, his accomplice, who was 17 at the time, was spared execution. Josh White meets him Lee Boyd Malvo said he remembers each of the sniper shootings in detail. […]
Catholic Priesthood Damned
CATHOLIC clergy commit six times as much abuse as those in the rest of the churches combined, ”and that’s a conservative figure”, a child protection expert says. Patrick Parkinson, a Sydney University law professor, told the state inquiry into how the churches handle sex abuse yesterday that the figures for the Catholic Church were strikingly […]
Male Circumcision: When Rites and Rights Collide
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings  10/18/2012 When Rites and Rights Collide – Michelle Harrington This summer, new rulings concerning an age-old practice surfaced on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, The American Academy of Pediatrics released an updated policy statement on male circumcision. […]
STRATEGIC COMMENT October 15, 2012
The attempted murder of 14-year-old Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban may prove to be the *best catalyst ever* for a moderate Muslim uprising against Islamic extremists in Muslim history. * IS IT THE FIRST TIME Muslim children have been mobilized en masse to protest against intolerance and extremism? * MIGHT THIS EVENT mobilize […]
Homosexuality – Brian McLaren’s evolving views…
A “farewell, Brian McLaren” moment, or not I recently received this note from a reader of my books, someone I had met on a trip to Asia a few years back: I read recently about your recent stand on homosexuality … Don’t know if everything is correct – but this was my comment on that […]
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