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Category Archives: Religion
‘A Modern Bedlam’
Cross-posted in the Corner. Writing in the Guardian, Nick Cohen, with more grim news about the state of multiculturalist Britain: Extremists are menacing the career and life of a Liberal Democrat politician and respectable society hardly considers these authentically scandalous … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Maajid Nawaz, Multiculturalism, UK
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A Guide to Getting Your Saints Recognized
US Catholic has a report on Pope Francis’s efforts to clean up the Vatican Bank. It comments that “Francis has repeatedly railed against corruption, and his reforms at the bank are quickly becoming a test case for those efforts”. Fair … Continue reading
Everywhere is Nowhere
In an admiring review for The Week of theologian David Bentley Hart’s new book, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, Damon Lineker writes that it “demolishes” the “straw man Atheism” of those who treat “God as if he were … Continue reading
Economical with the Truth
Cross-posted on Ricochet: Religion News‘s David Gibson believes that the current pope’s crude and demagogic attacks (to be clear: that’s not exactly the way that Mr. Gibson appears to see them) on the free market have a useful supporter in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardinal Marx, Pope Francis, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism
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The Devil Rides Out (2)
What to today’s Satanists believe? The Economist sets out to explain: Satanists are a rather fractious bunch, with many different organisations, beliefs and rituals. Many of these organisations are wholly or partly occult, with much hidden from non-adherents. Some are … Continue reading
Devilry Afoot
The Devil (or, more accurately, fear of the old monster) has always been a good recruiting sergeant for clergy looking to fill their pews. It’s thus no great surprise to read that the Roman Catholic church is taking advantage of … Continue reading
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Tagged Exorcism, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism, The Devil
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Science Update
The Daily Telegraph reports: Angels exist but do not have wings and are more like shards of light, at least according to a top Catholic Church “angelologist” who says the heavenly beings are now back in vogue thanks to New … Continue reading
Pope, Rush
One of the many advantages of not being religious is that I don’t have to spend any time wrestling with the “contradictions” of my faith. Christianity has—stretching from its murky beginnings to its wildly syncretic present—quite a few of those. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Christianity, Pope Francis, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin
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A Doctor Looks at the Papal Prescription, Finds it Lacking
Cross-posted on Ricochet. I’ll admit it, I’d been waiting for this. Over at the Liberty Law blog, Theodore Dalrymple has now taken a look at what the pope had to say: I was …not completely out of sympathy with some … Continue reading
Embarrassing in his Wrongness
Reason’s Matt Welch responds to Pope Francis’s dishonest and manipulative attack on free markets: Francis’s hyperbolic rants about the role and allegedly dictatorial power of free markets are embarrassing in their wrongness. Cheering them on is like donating money to … Continue reading
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Tagged Pope Francis, Religious Left
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