- Happy birthday to Horus, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Krishna, Zoroaster, Mithra, Buddha, Heracles, Dionysus, Tammuz, Adonis, Hermes, Bacchus, and Prometheus.
- Hypnotherapist jailed for sexual assaults – “A 75-year-old hypnotherapist was jailed for eight-and-a-half years today for committing a string of sex attacks on young girls during massage sessions.” From QA.
- Muslim family’s complaint over Christian toy giveaway provokes Conservative backlash – From Szczesniak.
- This American Life story on antivaccinationists – Act one of the aptly-named “Ruining it for the rest of us” show. Thanks Steve.
- The Psychology of Christmas Wars
Can anyone show any sources for the “gods born on december 25 to virgin mothers” page?
Wikipedia says Krishna’s bday is 18 or 21 July.
I’ll trust Wikipedia’s entry over that unsourced webpage.
…and some people claim that belief in pseudoscience isn’t harmful…
This sicko claimed to be a “spiritual healer” and used tarot card readings and “positive thinking” to influence his young female victims (one was only 11 years old) to allow him to molest them.
Who knows how much damamge he did? At least one victim still claims that he’s innocent…and he’s in denial about what he did to them. :-(
I suppose he should be glad not have been convicted in the US, because I can see a few young women’s families looking for him with guns and NOT for a consult on positive thinking and tarot cards…
I’m a little peeved that Newton wasn’t listed on the happy birthdays….
Newton wasn’t born today in the Gregorian calendar, so it doesn’t count.
Never knew the ancient Persians and Greeks used the Gregorian calendar…