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POPSThe Extreme-Right Way To Make A Buck "Actually, it's a little darker than that. Corsi doesn't just belong to the right's conspiratorial wing, he belongs to its racist, white-supremacist fringe. Over the last couple of years, he's written disparagingly about Muslims, Catholics and Jews, not to mention gays and lesbians. Muslims are "ragheads," the pope is "senile" and tolerates "boy bumping," and Jews ... well, you can imagine. The fact of the matter is, though, that Corsi doesn't so much aspire to participate as he does to profit. n former years, Americans' ideology was influenced by their participation in the economy. To put it crudely, businesspeople tended to find a home in the Republican Party, working men and women in the Democratic Party. Today, we have a new class, one to which Corsi and his ilk belong, whose business is their ideology."
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POPSThe hate-filled P.Z. Myers That may be true, and no one is bound to believe that Catholics or Muslims are correct. What we are bound to do, especially in a pluralist democracy, is show basic respect for the human beings who hold beliefs we don't respect. There's something about these new atheists, for whom P.Z. Myers is a folk hero, that's profoundly inhuman. "The ridicule is goal; the contempt is the end; the sheer fun of sanctimony, self-righteousness and loathing are the purpose," writes a nonreligious blogger named Freddie (lhote.blogspot.com), distancing himself from the rancid preening of the Myers mob. "This is classic adversary philosophy: I think this thing is true because in its being true it debases you and elevates me."
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POPSA Race Hanging By a Thread I have never spoken a kind word about the Israelis in my life, but it's simply impossible to deal with these hate-consumed Arabs.
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POPSDesecration Science did not prevent me from doing any of this and the microscope and every other tool is just a construct of our immaterial intellects. So free yourself from scientism The scientific method is itself a being of reason and not provable by the scientific method. The empiro-metric method while quite useful for studying the intelligibility of the world comes short when it come to ontology. Ontological question are aided by these branches of science but the empiro-metric view can't be used to prove ontological questions. The three layers of abstraction Metaphysical, Mathematica, and Physica are not at odds to each other and we need to return to the view that theology is the queen of the sciences, though this does not change the importance of the other sciences. Faith vs. science is a silly debate when there is not a "versus" only an "and." By the way I do highly recommend The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century
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POPSIn virus we trust i believe that birth control ban has and is used as a weapon by religious institutes (all alike). ignorance, refraining from responsibility are other examples of viruses that bans as such are preventing us from treating.
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POPSPope Reasserts Catholic Supremacy Over Protestants His Unholiness reasserts the pre-Reformation, tyrannical and usurping tradition of Papal authority and Roman Catholic supremacy as if Jesus Christ himself taught or authorized his ceremonial priest-craft and Latin Mass ( which is idolatry ), where his Blasphemy, through waving his magic wand and reciting Latin formula ( hocus pocus ) is able to (if you believe this) transform (transubstantiation) mere wafers of bread ("heil presto"--poof!) into the "body of Christ"! Jesus and the apostles never taught such superstition (which hails from Roman paganism, mixed well in its holidays and ecclesiastical hierarchy). The Pope is following the false teaching of Simon Magus, the sorcerer, instead of Simon Peter the apostle. Ritual, ceremony, miters, crosses, candles, pilgrimages, liturgies, and shepherd staffs all make a show of religion (tracing back to Babylonian religions) contrary to the writings of the new testament.
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POPSIT'S A FRACKIN' CRACKER! The comments on this post start off funny, then become more debate oriented as you scroll on down. Lots of food for thought -- food that you won't get excommunicated for stealing!
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POPSCatholic League Crack Up Once again, the Catholic League, under the direction of Bill Donohue has started a campaign to have a biology professor at the University of Minnesota ousted because he had the termerity to poke fun of a news story of a man who held a Communal wafer hostage (see my previous clip). It seems this was a great insult to the church administrators. PZ Meyers wrote some comments on his blog which further angered the offended Catholics and that's when Donohue stepped in. To hear his take on this issue you'd think the Cracker blasphemer was the anti-Christ! What absolute foolishness.
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POPSChrist Crackers Held Hostage! This sounds more like a Monty Python skit than a real life occurrence. I can imagine top scientists at the Vatican working on a Magic Cracker scanner so the faithful can be scanned before leaving the church to make sure no more Sacred Ritz are abducted.
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POPSFewer Belgians attending Mass 7% attend church weekly (11% a decade ago) 57% new born children are baptised (65% a decade ago) 26.5% opt for a church wedding (49% a decade ago) 61% for church funeral (76% a decade ago) The full press release (27 pages) is available in Dutch or French
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POPSCourage of the flip-flop: Has McCain got it? Like when it was demonstrated to him that his religious companions were bigots that advocated murder. Was it cowardice or courage or the pope and the Catholics that made him have such a radical change of mind and dump his fundamentalist 'friends'? Apparently they have dumped him back. Hagee has put out a statement saying that he withdraws his endorsement from McCain because he has “become a distraction in what should be a national debate about important issues.” It takes one type of courage to drop bombs from the sky. Another altogether to order men into battle. A far greater courage to bring home the troops. Which courage does McCain have? Bush landed on a carrier. He wore the uniform. Did he demonstrate any courage?
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POPSYouth Day laws 'undermine basic rights' Seems the Catholics feel more threatened than the APEC mob. "If I were to wear a t-shirt proclaiming that World Youth Day is a waste of public money in a World Youth Day-declared area, and I refuse to remove it when an officer, an authorised officer of the Rural Fire Service asks me to do so, then I'm potentially committing a criminal offence," she said.
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POPSUS Religion and Homosexuality: The Pew Survey Great news that a slim majority believe that someone's sexual inclinations are none of their business. But almost as much people who oppose abortion oppose homosexuality, which means that homosexuals are more likely to get wider acceptance as fetuses in the US than as adult human beings.
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POPSFood for Thought One statistic that stood out to me was the strange 1 in 5 self professed atheists that claim to believe in God. Atheism is conventionally defined as holding no belief in a god or gods.
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POPSTim Russert, Tough And Fair In the middle of a voice-over, NBC’s Tim Russert slumped over and was gone. The rumors had been buzzing around Washington D.C. for hours, until Tom Brokaw appeared on the Peacock network and confirmed the news. Every journalist that I’ve spoken with is shocked and slack-jawed. The broadcast lion seemed unstoppable; an irresistible force that would never meet its immovable object. Others who knew him better will talk about personal grace and his unegoistical connections to ordinary people, about his love of his family, his church and his Buffalo Bills. I want to remind you of his public qualities. He was two things that most Washington journalists are not: tough and fair. Among some Catholics, there is a convention when someone passes out of this life and into the next. They say he has “gone home.”
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