Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford

Offended (2)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

I first came across the French Catholic fundamentalist group, “Institut Civitas’ in a story posted here a month or so ago. Here they are again: Paris police have arrested around 20 Christian fundamentalists who burst into a theatre and threw … Continue reading →

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The Pope Presumes (But Means Well, I Think)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

These comments by the Pope seem to be intended as a friendly gesture towards agnostics, and so that’s how they should be taken. Nevertheless, he presumes a little too much: In addition to the two phenomena of religion and anti-religion, … Continue reading →

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“Are Mormons Christians?”

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Andrew Sullivan looks at the issue of whether Mormons are Christians here. For my part, I don’t much care one way or the other, but I don’t think there can be a great deal of doubt about it. In the … Continue reading →

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“Offended”

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Daily Telegraph: South Africa’s advertising watchdog has banned a television commercial depicting angels falling from heaven because they are attracted to a man’s deodorant after a complaint from a Christian.The advertisement for Axe deodorant (known as Lynx in … Continue reading →

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Rosa Parks, Sadly Missed

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the New York World: On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her … Continue reading →

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“A License to do Things”

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via ThinkProgress Health (I know, I know) comes this gem from Santorum: Rick Santorum pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception, during a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart, arguing that birth control devalues the act of … Continue reading →

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Back, Back to the Medieval We Go (If We Ever Left)

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Utne Reader: With a doctorate in astrophysics, Frank (not his real name) considers himself a man of science who relies on research and analysis to make sense of the world. Despite the occult overtones, his body’s violent reaction … Continue reading →

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“I do not believe in the Divinity of Christ”

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

So said Unitarian William Howard Taft some time before he was elected President. Would he have been electable now? H/t Andrew Sullivan

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Perry’s Pastor Problem

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Posted on the Corner yesterday. Kathryn, I agree with you that Rick Perry would be well-advised to put some distance between himself and Rev. Jeffress, but William Donohue, a man who once said that “radical atheists” should “apologize” for Hitler … Continue reading →

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On the Uselessness of Bioethics

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Of all the useless ‘disciplines’ that have come along in recent years one of the more irritating is bioethics (typified perhaps best by the waste of taxpayer dollars that was George W. Bush’s fatuous “Council on Bioethics”). Writing on Reason‘s … Continue reading →

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