The Terror Lurking in a Christmas Tree: Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish...
By Jonathan Cook - December 23rd, 2012...[W]ho would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?...[W]hat is clear is that there is plenty of religious...
View ArticleGoing to Jail for Peace
By David Swanson - December 25, 2012Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism...More...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Religious Group Gets Government Funds to Work in Uganda
Feb 10, 2013 - CBC NewsAn evangelical organization that describes homosexuality as a "perversion" and a "sin" is receiving funding from the Government of Canada for its work in Uganda, where gays and...
View ArticleVatican Changing of the Guard
Benedict XVI represents the worst of reactionary theocrats. Expect more of the same from his successor. It's longstanding policy. It’s the Vatican way.read more
View ArticleWhen God is Not Enough: Religion and Anti-Depressants Linked
By Laura Gottesdiener - AlterNetThey say that religion is the opiate of the masses, but it seems that the opiates of the religious are anti-depressants...Some states have startlingly medicated...
View ArticleNew Pope Elected as Catholic Church Tries to Stem Crisis
By Patrick O’Connor - 14 March 2013Former cardinal of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was yesterday installed as the new head of the Catholic Church...Within Latin America, the Church...
View ArticleThe "Dirty War" Pope
By Bill Van Auken - 16 March 2013Placed on the papal throne is not only another hard-line opponent of Marxism, the Enlightenment and all manner of human progress, but a man who is deeply and directly...
View ArticleIn the Time of the Jackboot Popes: Does Pope Francis Have Blood on His Hands?
By TOM CLIFFORD - March 14, 2013“We have much to be sorry for...The attitude of the church was scandalously close to the dictatorship to such an extent that I would say it was of a sinful degree.”-...
View ArticleVatican Dismissed Pinochet Massacre Reports as "Communist Propaganda:" WikiLeaks
By Peter Finocchiaro - April 8, 2013Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship was responsible for the deaths of as many as 3,200 people in Chile in the 1970s, but the Vatican dismissed reports of...
View ArticleMuslims and the War on Terror
The vast majority of Muslims condemn terrorism because even classical Islamic law explicitly classifies hirabah (terrorism) as a serious sin. In fact, indiscriminate killing and attacks are prohibited....
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