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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Paula Kirby on Unbelieving Pastors and Integrity
It’s not easy.
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Jerry Coyne Wonders What’s Up at CFI
Has the Center for Inquiry decided the best way to promote reason and secular society is to criticize atheists?
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Raising an Eyebrow at the Pope’s Letter
The Pope seems to see this episode as but another battle in his own church’s culture wars.
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Steiner Schools Work on ‘PR Problem’
They need to learn how to frame Anthroposophy, and all will be well.
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Maeve Lewis: The Church is Still in Denial
Pope blames liberal secular society instead of the reactionary patriarchal hierarchical church.
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The Church’s Corruption is Not Sex but Power
The only adequate response is a fundamental questioning of the closed, hierarchical power system.
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Arrested for ‘Hurting the Sentiments of Muslims’
Dr. Innaiah Narisetti was arrested for distributing a collection of works by Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen.
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Irish Victims React to Pope’s Letter
Paddy Doyle said the pastoral letter was insufficient as the pope ‘hasn’t put his hands up and said guilty.’
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A Victim of the Church Addresses the Pope
His faith was so strong that he blamed himself for being raped, turning his hatred of the abuse inwards.
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Pope Says Sorry
Claims to ‘share in the dismay and the sense of betrayal that so many of you have experienced.’
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Pope Had a Bad Week
That 2001 letter just won’t go away.
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Full Text of the Pope’s Letter
Challenges to the faith, secularization, social change, devotional practices neglected.
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The Unseen Unknowable Has No Place in Science
When reason gets uncomfortably close, that’s when the desperate appeal to fuzzy thinking starts.
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Dennett and LaScola Study of Nonbelieving Clergy
‘Don’t you think a God could come up with a better plan than that?’ Why yes, as a matter of fact.
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Johann Hari on Religious Support for Evil
Enforced ‘respect’ extends beyond religious ideas to religious institutions – even when they commit horrendous crimes.
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Catholic Church Has Done Better Than Blair
At least it says it’s sorry…now that it’s been caught.
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Hans Kung Says Pope Should Stop Whining
Ratzinger himself warned the bishops, under threat of ecclesiastical punishment, to observe ‘papal secrecy.’
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Damian Thompson Defends the Pope
Yes really.