Sisters of Mercy and the sisterhood of no mercy
For a tiny Albanian woman who devoted her life to ministering to the poor, Mother Teresa of Calcutta has proven to be a controversial new saint, though not so much …
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Was Jesus a psychopath?
Yes, according to Oxford University psychologist, Dr Kevin Dutton, who applied a standard measure of psychopathic traits, the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (Revised), to various historical figures – as well as …
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To burqini or not to burqini
After Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet on the French Riviera, Sisco on the island of Corsica became the third municipality to ban wearing of burqini on local beaches. The ban follows on …
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Gosford Anglicans vs Party for Freedom – a plague on both your houses
Yesterday, a group of yobbos known as the Party for Freedom staged a noisy anti-Islamic protest during the Sunday mass at the Gosford Anglican Church. I wasn’t previously aware of …
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Let’s criminalise blasphemy so we don’t have to kill the blasphemers
I might be verballing some of the people quoted in the BBC reporting, but not by much. On 24 March this year, Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah was brutally murdered in …
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Who would Jesus bomb?
Eat your heart out Amazon with your planned drone book delivery: A Swedish evangelical free church has said it plans to use drones to drop thousands of bibles into Isis-controlled …
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The unholy war over Census
A Christian, a Muslim, an atheist, and a Jedi walk into a bar. If it’s Tuesday, 9 August, they order drinks, sit down at a table and proceed to fill …
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Your Holiness, you’re wrong about terrorism
With the greatest of respect… “I think it is not right to identify Islam with violence,” the Pope told reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome on Sunday …
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Is the Pope Catholic? Not in Poland
Pope Francis is about to touch down on a brief pilgrimage to Poland, to participate in the World Youth Day, a major gathering and festival of young Catholics from around …
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Ten commandments of the media coverage of terrorism, crime and violence
From the people (and by people I mean me) who brought you Ten Commandments of Social Justice Warriors, behold… You might enjoy this. Slightly topical.
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Looking for love in all the wrong places
Chalk up another great victory for equality. As a result of a settlement flowing from a class action brought by two gay plaintiffs, a number of Christian internet dating sites …
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The moral idiocy of moral equivalence, or why I loathe self-loathing
I love the Gosford Anglican Church. It’s the church I would be attending if I wasn’t interested in the actual religion but my favourite pieties were political. Which is why …
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Will the real Sheikh Shady please stand up?
It has not been a good few days for Sheikhs in Australia. First the Shiite hit the fan, after a few individuals armed with all the investigative resources of Google …
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Take all your messiahs and give us back politicians
Remember when politicians were just politicians and not semi-divine beings? Ah, the good old days. Roughly pre-2008. So technically not all that long ago, yet today, in June 2016, they …
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9 more stupid reactions to Orlando
Days on, the Orlando tragedy continues to be the Rorschach test of stupid (for the first installment click here). 1.Former (unrepentant) Weather Underground terrorist and Barack Obama’s mentor, Bill Ayers: …
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Ten Commandments of Social Justice Warriors
That pretty much sums it all up, I think. Missed anything? Tell me in the comments.
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Religion of peace vs. religion of sensitivity
File it under “Colour me completely astonishedâ€: The vast majority of Australian Defence Force personnel believes the Muslim religion promotes Âviolence and terrorism, despite “cultural sensitivity training†by the ADF …
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Fox dog-whispers dead baby
As a rule I never assume that celebrities are necessarily smart and/or sane, but once in a while a story pops up on the news that makes even me go …
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Dalai Lama, that ugly right-winger
I love the sound of leftie heads exploding from dissonance. This is going to generate a few pops: The Dalai Lama, who has himself lived in exile for over half …
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Exodus: Gods, kings and Scotts
Hollywood doesn’t do Bible well. Hollywood doesn’t do religion well in general. Hollywood doesn’t do well anything that’s out of its comfort zone – patriotism, conservatism, family values. You would …
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