Monthly Archives: September 2010

Pagan Pique

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted from the Corner: It’s not every day that I give thanks to the folks over at the Huffington Post, but today is one of those days. Take it away, Sam Stein: …A spokesperson for the neopagan network “The Witches’ … Continue reading →

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More is Less

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s the Pope (speaking in London’s Westminster Hall last week) on Thomas More: I recall the figure of Saint Thomas More, the great English scholar and statesman, who is admired by believers and non-believers alike for the integrity with which … Continue reading →

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DeMint’s Witch?

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

No, of course not, but Republicans hoping for a GOP win in Delaware do now have to deal with this: O’DONNELL: I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into … Continue reading →

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DeMint’s Choice (2)

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

From O’Reilly (Nov 16 2007): O’DONNELL: They are — they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they’re already into this … Continue reading →

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Godwin’s Pope? (2)

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

One of the pleasures (really) of blogging away on an interesting topic is when a reader alerts you to an angle or a source of which you were previously unaware. That brings me to a book called The Holy Reich: … Continue reading →

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Taking the Western side in religious history

Posted on September 17, 2010 by David Hume

A reader recently asked me about a history of Islam which did not exhibit the strong biases evident in Karen Armstrong’s body of work. I don’t know what to recommend really because I don’t read too many popular works of … Continue reading →

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Godwin’s Pope?

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s a curious passage from the first speech that the pope made on arriving in Britain: “Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from … Continue reading →

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It isn’t always about the mean

Posted on September 16, 2010 by David Hume

‘Draw Muhammad’ cartoonist changes name, goes into hiding at FBI’s insistence: Seattle Weekly announced Wednesday that it will no longer run Molly Norris’s artwork. The newspaper is also reporting that legally, there is no more “Molly Norris.” Norris — the … Continue reading →

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Islam and HBD

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Bradlaugh

A friend writes concerning Mr. Hume’s post Islam, generalizations, barbarism, and structural conflicts: The tone of Mr. Hume’s essay is, in your terminology, a “culturist” one, of a “Blank Slate” kind. Example: “Moving specifically to Muslim perspective the experiences of … Continue reading →

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DeMint’s Choice

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

One reason that Delaware’s best-known GOP candidate will have such a mountain to climb in the general election is the emergence of fresh embarrassments like these comments (via New York magazine today) from a 1996 debate on whether creationism should … Continue reading →

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