The Telegraph: Jehovah’s Witness refuses to let husband have life-saving blood transfusion
I always get quite conflicted when I hear about Jehovah’s witnesses and their literalist attitudes to medical practises. On the one hand, I’m glad that they see fit to remove themselves from the gene pool and not have the world further support them [...]

I don’t live in the USA, so I’ve never actually seen Fox News properly. However, I have seen enough clips on YouTube and via the likes of Bill Maher and The Daily Show to realise how they treat reality. 1 Sky News, as hilarious as it is, isn’t a patch on Fox.
However, though [...]

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 [...]

Last week I bought a teddy bear for a tenner, and named it Mohammed.
At the weekend, I sold it for £20. I think this means I made a prophet.
To quote Basil Brush, Boom! Boom!
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The British “guerilla” graffiti artist that goes under the nom de guerre Banksy has recently been to the Middle East to offer the locals his particular brand of controversial graffiti.
This example is to be found in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank:

As a statement, this image of a dove (presumably a “dove of peace” from [...]

I was in the pub yesterday, and was made aware that catholic wingnut-in-chief Ratzinger had been bad-mouthing science and atheism by playing the old Marxism=teh evul! card and playing up christianity because it offers “hope”. Earlier today, I saw a few posts on blogs (The Freethinker, Atheist Ethicist - highly recommended) and articles in [...]

BBC News 24 has just reported that Gillian Gibbons, the teacher at the centre of the Sudanese Mohammed Teddy stupidity, has been found guilty of “insulting religion”, and sentenced to 15 days in prison and is then to be deported, hopefully, for her sake, to a country not run by those who cling to their [...]

Yeah, you read that right…
I really have no comment to make on this story, apart from a great big
What The Fuck?
A British teacher has been arrested in Sudan for letting her children name a teddy bear Mohammed, the British Embassy said.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was detained on Sunday on suspicion of insulting Islam’s prophet.
The [...]

As reported by Reuters in this Yahoo! News article, the hearing for the privately brought blasphemy case against the BBC for its screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera has wound-up, with a ruling expected at a later date.
The Yahoo! article writes about the arguments used to bring the case:
[Jon] Thoday is the producer of musical [...]

I’m just flabbergasted. Go and read it for yourself.
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A Catholic worker at Manchester Airport was suspended after hanging an image of Jesus on a staff room wall.
Gareth Langmead, 40, was sent home from his job as a car parks supervisor after a complaint from a Muslim colleague.
He was off work for three days while an investigation was carried out and later reinstated with [...]

As reported in The Independent on Sunday on 21 January 2007, the news that the catholic church is pressing the British government to allow an exeption to the recently passed anti-discrimination law regarding sexuality has reached the mainstream media (BBC, The Times).
At the moment, only Ruth Kelly and the prime minister, Tony Blair, are supportive [...]

From the Letters page of The Independent on 22nd December:
Sir: This Christian is left amused and astonished that Johann Hari (Opinion, 21 December) can be so theologically ignorant.
Christianity anti-materialistic? On the contrary, as William Temple observed, it is the most materialistic of all religions, celebrating not only the physical world from quarks to quasars, but [...]

In the most recent of The Times Higher Education Supplement, an article by Rowan Williams, the Archibishop of Canterbury, entitled It is not a crime to hold traditional values argues that the recent arguments over Christian Union (CU) organisations within various universities should be able to associate freely, and should look at their attitudes and [...]