What the NSW Government is doing to liberal democracy in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Read more »
What the NSW Government is doing to liberal democracy in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Read more »
The Australian and international blogosphere is abuzz with news of New South Wales’ antidemocratic laws protecting Catholicism from criticism during the World Youth Day festivities:
EXTRAORDINARY new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance” to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today.
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Okay, I’ll bite. The man is a liar and a blowhard. A strawman-builder from the get-go:
“Though the atheists claim to represent the side of reason,” he asserts in his book, “their arguments more often than not are ideological rather than rational.”
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god or gods. Period. If that’s all it takes to constitute an ideology, then not collecting stamps is an ideology. (Aphilatelism?) Read more »
The Vatican has launched a judicial inquiry into the case of an Australian woman who claims to have been cured of inoperable lung cancer in 1993 through the intercession of saint-in-waiting Mary MacKillop.
Two doctors will examine the case for evidence of a second miracle needed for sainthood.
The first miracle, which led to the beatification of Mary MacKillop, was the cure of another woman of leukaemia in 1961.
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The Australian and international blogosphere is abuzz with news of New South Wales’ antidemocratic laws protecting Catholicism from criticism during the World Youth Day festivities:
EXTRAORDINARY new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance” to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today. Read more »
Jesus was, like, against anyone expressing opinions that went against any organisation that held even a modicum of power. Read more »
Deny responsibility, of course. Read more »
Or at least, between religion and woo-woo? Read more »
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