A Virginia lawmaker* is attempting to thwart the Antichrist with a preemptive ban on implanted microchips. His fellow lawmakers ridiculed it, then passed it. As Republican David Albo pointed out, “The fact that some people who support it are a little wacky doesn’t make it a bad idea.” I can buy that.
Is it me, or do Jedis only make the news for causing public disturbances?
That for all the claims of some religious folk to moral superiority, it was a humanist group that did the right thing?
The state of New Jersey adds Pagan/Wiccan Holidays to the school calendar.
Time is running out for Lebanese television psychic Ali Hussain Sibat, who was tricked into visiting Saudi Arabaia, where he was arrested and convicted of sorcery by the country’s religious authorities. If you’ve ever wondered what life in the US would be like with fundamentalists in charge, this is it.
The fundamentalist propaganda machine that is Stephen Baldwin is a little scarier than it looks.
Religion Dispatches looks at Scientology’s aggressive attacks on the media, and how its strategy has evolved over time. Scientology’s had a rather bad couple of years, having come under intense media scrutiny, subject to massive protests, and losing almost half of its US membership.
A second push for a Senate inquiry into the practices of Scientology in Australia has been blocked. A third attempt is already planned.
Representatives of several orders of nuns in the US have publicly stood up to Catholic Bishops’ opposition to Barack Obama’s health care plans. Although the Bishops contend the bill promotes abortion, a spokesman for the nuns group referred to their support as “The real pro-life stance, and we as Catholics are all for it.”
*Amazing how many weird stories start with that phrase
