I haven’t been to church in a couple of weeks. My back has been giving me serious grief. That’s also why I haven’t been blogging much. I can’t sit more than a few minutes. So this post has taken me MUCH time to write. Elseweb, I…

I have to admit that I am guilty of it all the time. I should know better, but just the same, I find myself saying:;  “Those damned Muslim’s,” when in fact the problem lies with the culture that it comes from. Force your wife to wear a black, full length burka in the desert heat [...]

The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense subcommittee on Foreign Policy urged the Israeli government Tuesday to garner support from Evangelical Christians around the world, and to strengthen its connection to those outside of the US.

All too frequently when the horrible/insane/incoherant practices/beliefes/consequences of religious dogma are pointed out, one hears responses that try to dodge the point rather than address it directly. One of the most common of these dodges takes thi…

By Michael J.W. Stickings Via twitter: ”The greatest minority under attack today are Christians. No doubt about it,” says Rep. Tim Scott. – Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn)Oh, totally. I mean, just consider the bigoted virulence of …

The Harper government is about to create a new Office of Religious Freedom, designed to champion religious freedom around the world. For those who have questioned, especially in a time of deep austerity, the need for such an office, activities within a…

“I thought he was joking,” says student

Demagoguery is not an accusation that stings very much nowadays. Almost anyone can be accused of being a demagogue for saying almost anything, and one’s inclination is merely to shrug it off with a snort.read more

Your blogger with Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Calgary-Fort MLA Wayne Cao, the best singer in the Legislature. Below: Sun columnist Ezra Levant. Demagoguery is not an accusation that stings very much nowadays. Almost anyone can be accused of being a…

Traditional holiday customs appear to be on the outs for some Canadians, according to the results of the latest poll. Fewer Canadians, 72 per cent, say they’ll be dining on turkey for Christmas dinner, down nine percentage points since 2007, according to the latest Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Postmedia News and Global News. Of [...]

“Give me the child and I will give you the man,” the Jesuits boast. Indoctrinate a child in a faith and he, or she, will carry that faith for life. Or at least, most will. According to the latest British Social Attitudes survey, not indoctr…

By QMI Agency Your days may be merry and bright, but will Mother Nature make your Christmas white? Most of the country can expect “near normal” levels of precipitation for the next couple of months, the experts at The Weather Network say. In fact, the entire winter will be “typical” across much of Canada, and [...]

The question, broached by Amber MacArthur in Thursday’s The Globe and Mail, comes with its own set of issues that perhaps merits a bit of precision. As MacArthur points out:”The Perry video is an open attack on the gay community. He clearly implies tha…

Legendary Australian tennis champion and Pentecostal, Reverend Margaret Court, has once again displayed her flagrant brand of homophobia, this time in her condemnation of the marriage equality movement in Australia. Court, who founded and is a senior p…

Dear Readers; Since it’s Sunday, it’s time for Sunday School again, with this timely article from Live Science! ———————————————– By Adam Hadhazy, LiveScience Contributor This December is chock full of “holy days,” or holidays. On Dec. 25, Christians commemorate Christmas. For Jews, Hanukkah starts this year on Dec. 20 in the Western and international Gregorian [...]

  Not so much of the unveiled hate we’re used to this disservice, but more of an exploration of the hoops people will jump through to keep their chosen godhead happy.  This video is about growing up in a fundamentalist christian household and t…

Dear Readers: The United States currently has 25% of all the people in prisons around the world. Part of this is from their disastrous war on drugs, part of it is from the influence of the Right Wing, and part of it is just a case of the justice system gone wild in that country. [...]

Finding out that many religions are paradoxical is like making the discovery that there happens to be chlorine in salt.  Looking at the basis of the christian god it is obvious that not one, but several paradoxes are required to make sense of who or w…

A few years ago, my neighbour sent me this – most of which wasn’t actually written by Ben Stein, but is crappy enough that it could have been. He asked for our feelings on it (it was sent to a lot of people) and I wrote a reply, below. My S…

As if the tragedy at Penn State wasn’t bad enough in and of itself, people with unrelated axes to grind are now using it to get attention.

1.  A spokesman for an anti-gay hate group blames gay men and homosexuality for the alleged sexual assault(s) at Penn State.  By repeating the old lie about how pedophilia is linked to homosexuality they managed to suck up a considerable amount of media