As reported in today’s The Telegraph, a sikh teenager who was excluded from school after refusing to take off a religious bangle has won her discrimination case at the High Court.
Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, was reprimanded for breaking the “no jewellery” rule at Aberdare Girls’ School in South Wales last year.
In court, she said wearing the [...]

For those of you with a penchant for stuff dug out of the ground, archaeologists claim to have found the world’s “oldest christian church”, tentatively dated in the 33-70 CE region (although how they got the precision of ‘33′ with a margin of error that large does smell rather odd to my sceptical nostrils).
Time (ha!) [...]

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 [...]

In a stunning case of political correctness gone horribly mad and special treatment for (obviously “moral”) god botherers, it seems that there is a “case” whereby imprisoned sex offenders who adhere to a certain flavour of magical thinking may be allowed to opt out of treatment for their crimes.
The treatment programme seemingly entails a period [...]

I’m just flabbergasted. Go and read it for yourself.
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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 [...]