Religion
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Not so glad to be home, but stupid news is everywhere
Hi All, got back from my trip to the UK and Lithuania a couple of days ago. I really did not want to come home. Unfortunately, both Mr. writerdd and I have to work, so here we are. I was welcomed home by this lovely news story from the Denver Post, a reminder of one of the things I don’t…
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Bad Religion
There’s been a lot of Scientology-related news that has been clogging up the “Religious Cults, Crazy” folder on my desk, so it’s time to clear it out. First of all, everyone is talking about the murders in Australia. To catch you up, a 25-year old woman was diagnosed with psychiatric problems late last year. She saw a therapist who put…
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Last note about Falwell
I promise this is the last post about Falwell. But if you can stomach it, watch this video. It’s a 1980s documentary produced by People for the American Way about the birth of the religious right movement. I guess no-one took it seriously.
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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead or Who’s REALLY Wicked?
Today I am going to see Wicked, a play based on Gregory Maguire’s book of the same title that is a fictional biography of the Wicked Witch of the West from Oz, whom Maguire dubs Elphaba (for the initials of L. Frank Baum, the author of the original Oz novels). Since I’ll be thinking about wickedness all day, I think…
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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead or Who's REALLY Wicked?
Today I am going to see Wicked, a play based on Gregory Maguire’s book of the same title that is a fictional biography of the Wicked Witch of the West from Oz, whom Maguire dubs Elphaba (for the initials of L. Frank Baum, the author of the original Oz novels). Since I’ll be thinking about wickedness all day, I think…
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The pope needs to sit on his pointy hat and spin.
OMF’nG. This pope is one loose cannon. Apparently he really believes that the Catholic Church did natives a favor in South America in the past: “In a speech to Latin American and Caribbean bishops at the end of a visit to Brazil, the Pope said the Church had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples of the Americas. They had…
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Jerry Falwell kicks the bucket!
Sad that a human has died. Relieved that an awful human has died. Happy that someone on my death list died, giving me 27 points. More info on CNN.
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Humanist Nature
Hello to all the humanists who are new to the site! I met so many awesome people at the New Humanism conference put on by the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy, and I hope they all managed to find their way here despite the fact that I ran out of business cards to hand out. The conference itself was a mixed bag:…
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