The Independent is, for the next eight days commencing on Saturday 14th June, covering six of the major religions in a two-part ‘encyclopædia’ and a series of mini-booklets.

Saturday 14 June : ‘The Encyclopedia of World Religions’ Part 1
Sunday 15 June: ‘The Encyclopedia of World Religions’ Part 2
Monday 16 June: Christianity
Tuesday 17 June: Islam
Wednesday 18 June: [...]

AKOTA hides in a closet and watches her uncle, DANIEL CRAIG, interact with a member of the MAGISTERIUM.
      DANIEL CRAIG
      Oh, the Magisterium. You guys must be the symbol of religion that religious folks are all pissed off about.
      SIMON MCBURNEY
      Actually, in the movie we’re just a symbol of conformity and blind obedience.
      DANIEL CRAIG
      Er, so organizations like the [...]

From The Times Online’s Nature Notes.
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You couldn’t make it up. But they can. :-)
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Christian Voice’s civil blasphemy case appeal against the BBC over it’s screening of Jerry Springer:The Opera has, thankfully, been once again dismissed by the UK courts.
It’s not all good news though. The BBC reports:
However, the two senior judges at the High Court said the 1968 Theatres Act prevented any prosecution for blasphemy in relation [...]

Apparently it does, according to this magazine article over on the BBC.
Let’s see if this is true:

I’d like to see some muslim opinion on whether this doctored image could be considered amusing.
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Stephen “Dogshit” Green of Christian Voice is launching a private prosecution in the High Court in an attempt to sue the BBC for blasphemy for it’s screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Green first launched his legal application for special treatment for supposed offence caused in 2005, but it was turned down at the time by [...]

On today’s BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme, christian “think tank” Theos complained about the NHS’s lessening support for chaplaincy in healthcare, although specifically from a religious angle.
Aside from the show’s usual confused conflation of “religion” and “ethics”, the question on the table was should public money should be used to fund NHS chaplaincy? It’s [...]

I wasn’t able to blog about this when it first came out, but Tuesday’s The Telegraph has an article about naturalist and broadcaster Richard Attenborough’s complaint to the BBC over a Dutch evangelical christian fundamentalist broadcaster’s “editing” (read ripping to shreds) of a series television programmes, The Life of Mammals, that he has presented for [...]

In today’s The Guardian, Stuart Jeffries has an article ‘reporting’ on the vicious and uncompromising battle between believers and non-believers.
His opening commentary comes in the form of a quote from one Colin Slee, the Dean of Southwark (whatever that is):
“We are witnessing a social phenomenon that is about fundamentalism,” says Colin Slee, the Dean of [...]

In today’s The Times, William Rees-Mogg, the Times columnist of yesteryear, expounds on the virtues of christianity, initially with respect to slavery, and then goes on to lambast atheistic attitudes and final put out that overly worn (and well-dismissed) mantra that one cannot be moral without religion - in this case, christianity.
In the opening paragraph, [...]

Over on the CNN web site, the advertisment for Paula Zahn Now reads:
Monday’s show
Discrimination - against atheists? Backlash from one of the most controversial stories we’ve ever brought “Out in the Open.” Tune in Monday at 8 p.m. ET.
I’ll translate this from Mediasprack into English:
Monday’s show
“Discrimination”?! Against atheists? Whoever heard of something so ridiculous! [...]

The Labour Humanists have a couple of post that may be of interest to the secular humanists in the UK.
First, the tale of a couple who, from an unfortunate circumstance combined with an ancient (and frankly ridiculous) law have to fork out £200,000 to pay for repairs to a CofE church, which currently has assets [...]

After a conversation with my partner who was bemused by the idea of “christian news”, my partner said:
Bloody hell, two thousand years is a hell of a wait for an update!

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Richard Dawkins’ self-appointed nemesis, the equally vociferous Alistair McGrath, is to release another ad hominem titled book, The Dawkins Delusion? later this month.
On the Ekklesia (a religious think tank) web site there is, what basically boils down to, an advertisement for this book masquerading as a news article. This article also acts as a [...]