Archive for the 'World Events' Category

Theocracy Watch: Buddhist Fundamentalists to Hijack Island

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Sri Lanka may now be an officially Buddhist nation.
On October 4, the Sri Lankan Parliament was due to vote on the proposed 19th amendment to their constitution. This piece of legislation, which was ruled unconstitutional by Sri Lanka’s supreme court last year, was put forward for another hearing by the Jathika Hela Urumaya party […]

Catholic Theologian’s Try to Bend Dover

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

I would assert (and I’m certainly not the first to say this) that the only effective way to combat the teaching of intelligent design in science classes is to clearly demonstrate that it is not science. The rational are overwhelmingly outnumbered by the superstitious, so attacking the truth of the theory will get us […]

God Hates America

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

The folks at Westboro Baptist Church are on our side against the pledge of allegiance. The United States couldn’t possibly be one nation under god, because god hates America.
Before I even begin to talk about this, let me give you a taste.

Thank God for Katrina. New Orleans, symbol of America, seen for what […]

Theocracy Hypocrisy

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Before I begin, I want to clarify some terminology. I have found numerous, very different definitions of the word “theocracy” while researching for this post. Dictionary.com gave the broadest definition: “1. A government ruled by or subject to religious authority. 2. A state so governed.” That’s the one I’m using.
More than […]

What to Say?

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

I haven’t posted much this week, and I’ll tell you why. I’ve been busy watching the 24 hour a day Hurricane Katrina show. When I posted about it on Monday afternoon, in reference to the article at Jerusalem Newswire, no one had any idea how bad it had been except for the people […]