In 2001 Ratzinger issued an order ensuring the church’s investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret.
Author: Ophelia Benson
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John Hartung on ‘Love thy Neighbor’
Thy neighbor is not everyone, it is thy group.
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Communal justice in Bolivia
Cases include death sentences for women accused of adultery and the beating, stoning, hanging, and burning of an elected official accused of corruption.
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Being a new atheist means not saying you’re sorry
It seems as if in order to be a ‘good’ atheist one has to feel bad about not believing in god.
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Frontline’s ‘Prisoners of Silence’
Double-blind testing show it’s the ‘facilitator’ who is typing.
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Theocracy in America
Catholic bishop tells a Representative what to do.
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Raw Nerve Apologizes to Peter Tatchell
‘Mr Tatchell is not Islamophobic and is not “part of the Islamophobia industry.” Nor is OutRage!’
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Pseudoscience is not a valid educational choice
A curious working definition of ‘diversity’ now includes funnelling public money to an occult society.
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Robert Wright on Dennett at Beliefnet
Dennett ‘declared that life on earth shows signs of having a higher purpose.’ Not.
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Tim Sandefur on Robert Wright on Dennett
Dennett admitted there’s a Higher Purpose! No he didn’t.
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Tehran Plans to Execute Protesters
The news of death sentences sparked immediate condemnation from international human rights groups.
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The War on Women: Afghanistan and Eastern Congo
There are certain realities we should not lose sight of and certain people we should not sell out.
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Susan Haack on ‘Irreconcilable Differences’
Between science and law.
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Polish woman was refused an abortion
Despite warnings that having a baby could make her go blind.
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Karen Armstrong explains about God.
‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist.’
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Controversy over Tariq Ramadan
Ramadan, integration advisor for Rotterdam council and a guest professor at the city’s Erasmus university, is under fire for presenting a weekly talk show on the Iranian channel Press TV.
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IHEU on superstition and witchcraft in Africa
Attacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.
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Stepping Stones Nigeria on Child Witches
An increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”
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Free Speech and its Postmodern Adversaries
The theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”
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David Colquhoun on the problem of causality
The problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.
