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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Look out, the “new” atheists are attacking
The members of the Clergy Letter project have been ‘relentlessly attacked by “New Atheists.”‘
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The creationism problem in US education
47% of high school science teachers believe in ID; only 28% believe in god-free evolution.
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Yet another “new atheists are evangelical” bore
Evangelistic, zealous, fundamentalism, sole possession of truth, lack of tolerance, simplistic reductionism.
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Vatican tool tries to defend its warped morality
About the concern that child rape is equated with ordination of women, he said they are not on the same level.
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Norms Addressing “Gravioribus Delictis”
The more grave delict of the attempted sacred ordination of a woman is also reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Polanski and the bishop of Bruges
Both raped children, both enjoy a measure of freedom.
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Catholic women notice misogyny of Vatican
Vatican tool said the idea was to codify the most serious canonical crimes the Roman Catholic Church handles.
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Vatican raises ordination of women to “grave crime”
Treating women as equals is officially as sinful as raping children.
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Seeing disagreement as “relentless attacks”
Just one of the ploys of the marginalizers of atheism.
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Theist says why he’s so much better than Hitchens
It’s because he is so loving.
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More clerical passive-aggression for Hitchens
He’s clever but wicked, we’re good, so we will pray for him.
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Muslim apostate found hanged
He wrote to a rights organization desperately requesting help with an asylum application.
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Rwanda: newspaper editor arrested
Agnès Uwimana Nkusi, editor of Umurabyo, was detained in connection with publication of stories on “sensitive” subjects.
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Besides, Vatican radio causes cancer
The radio towers interfere with appliances, too. No, really.
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UK government replies to no pope petition
Our relationship with the Holy See enables us to address jointly a range of foreign policy and development issues.
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Mark Vernon explains about Polkinghorne
It’s complicated. So, “there is a possibility of giving an account of divine action within nature, which is compatible with science.”
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Yet another ‘centre for science and religion’
This one celebrated god and physics last week for John Polkinghorne’s 80th birthday.
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Quetta tense after Habib Jalib Baloch’s killing
All educational institutions, including Balochistan University, will remain closed for two days.
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Gunmen murder former senator in Balochistan
Separatist groups in the province have targeted opponents, have also been blamed for killings they deny.