Category Archives: Religion

Of Spiritual Paths and Other Matters

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The New York Times takes a look at four arrivals in Washington with religious views that differ from the commonly (if inaccurately) understood norm: For the real underdog story in the elections this year, you have to look further out … Continue reading →

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Darwin the Candidate

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The election results didn’t give me much to smile about, but here’s one exception. The Athens Banner-Herald reports: Charles Darwin, the 19th-century naturalist who laid the foundations for evolutionary theory, received nearly 4,000 write-in votes in Athens-Clarke County in balloting … Continue reading →

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Same Old, Same Old

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Guardian‘s Nick Cohen has written a powerful piece on the “Weimar of the Aegean” which is well worth reading in full, but this detail caught my attention: One can say with certainty that old alliances between extreme political and … Continue reading →

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Icon of the Religious Left

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Some hagiography here: watch?v=6fSlpUsSeiM Unclear how that whole “revenge” thing fits in with this, however.

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Vandals

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The totalitarian Saudi regime has been busy again. The Daily Telegraph’s Damian Thompson reports: …The long-cherished ambition of Saudi Arabia’s ruling Wahhabi sect to smash up the ancient buildings of Mecca and Medina is nearing fruition. In Mecca, the house … Continue reading →

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Silencing Timbuktu

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. I cannot say that I know that much about Mali, but my ipod knows its music. Enter the Islamists. The Guardian reports: The pickup halted in Kidal, the far-flung Malian desert town that is home to … Continue reading →

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For Misery in Massachusetts

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cardinal O’Malley (The National Catholic Register reports): Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston is leading a statewide fight to defeat the Death With Dignity Act, a November 2012 ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts. He has outlined the … Continue reading →

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God and Mammon

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

How the Roman Catholic Church chooses to decide who is—and who is not a Roman Catholic—is up to that church. Even so, this is quite a story (from Reuters): Liberal and conservative Roman Catholic activists in Germany criticised a decree … Continue reading →

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So Unsophisticated, That First Amendment

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago law school frets in Slate: The universal response in the United States to the uproar over the anti-Muslim video is that the Muslim world will just have … Continue reading →

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Erdogan, Again

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Turkey’s thuggish (“mildly Islamist”, if you are The Economist) prime minister Erdogan is doing his bit to restrict free speech. The Seattle Times reports: Prompted by the anti-Muslim video produced in California that has stirred deadly … Continue reading →

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