In an official report issued on Sunday, the Roman Catholic Church has acknowledged that there are more Muslims in the world than Catholics. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who is in charge of compiling the Vatican’s 2008 Yearbook, reports thatMuslims made up 19.2% of the world’s population, compared to 17.4% for Catholics. “For the first [...]
I can’t tell you how sick I am of black activists making a big to do about absolutely nothing. This time, we’ve got the case of the current cover of Vogue, which features basketball star LeBron James and fashion model Gisele Bundchen. You’ve got James on the left dribbling a basketball and Bundchen [...]
Yes, it’s happened again, this time in Clackamas County, Oregon. Carl and Raylene Worthington have been charged with second degree manslaughter and criminal mistreatment charges Friday after their 15-month old daughter died of bacterial bronchial pneumonia and an infection, both of which could have been cured with common antibiotics, the medical examiner said. [...]
There comes a time when you have to stop pretending that people have bad luck through no fault of their own and admit that they bring it on themselves. Such is the case with the makers of Expelled, people who can’t possibly be so damned stupid as to keep making these gross and absurd [...]
He’s actually a bad-ass rapper! Well, he claims his voice would kill at 15 paces so maybe it’s his sonic weapon that they really fear.
Regardless, someone linked to this off of Pharyngula earlier today and I had to put it up just because it’s so creative. Enjoy!
After writing the post a couple of days ago that touched again on secular conservatism, I thought I’d try for something a bit more detailed and attempt to describe how I can justify why I feel a secular conservative ethic works better than any other political or moral model.
Secular conservatism, at least as far as [...]