And ‘spiritual treatment of the sick’?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Egypt, Islamism and the Niqab
Women fight for the right to blot themselves out.
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Brown Wants More ‘Faith Leaders’ in Lords
Gordon Brown wants to make the House of Lords ‘more representative of the nation’s religious diversity.’
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Austin Dacey on ‘Sharia-compliant Science’
The Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization is somewhat oddly named…
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Ben Goldacre on Facilitated Communication
Almost all scientifically controlled studies showed that the facilitator was the author of the communication.
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Suicide’s Parents Say Bishop Should Go
When he tried to take up his case with the Limerick diocese, he was met with silence and bullying.
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The Catholic Church Never Learns
After decades of covering up child abuse, it goes on doing just that.
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Taliban Blow Up Mosque in Rawalpindi
37 people dead, including 17 children. But isn’t it only ‘the West’ that ‘kills Muslims’?
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Cardinal Egan’s Testimony, Unsealed at Last
All about defending the church, never about protecting the victims. Surprise!
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Top of Pope’s Agenda: ‘Battle Against Secularism’
Surely there must be room for compromise between human rights and theocratic dogma?
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More on Karen Armstrong
This is mysticism and metaphysical hand-waving raised to a truly objectionable level.
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Baroness Warsi Bullied by Gang of Men
‘Clearly by looking at her, she does not represent Muslims.’ No, she represents her constituents.
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Warsi Unimpressed by Egg-throwers
The group failed to articulate any arguments, she pointed out.
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John Haught on God as Dramatist
God is not a designer, God is a teller of stories full of comedy and tragedy and truly deep significance.
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Jerry Coyne on Haught on God as Dramatist
It’s all so convenient.
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Taoiseach Painfully Deferential to the Vatican
Vatican’s insistence on being treated as a state rather than a church is the key to its claim of sovereign immunity.
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God Confirms What People Already Believe
So ‘God’ is a megaphone or a battering ram for existing beliefs, not an insightful moral guide.
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Rick Warren Refuses to Condemn Ugandan Bill
Says no one cared about Christians who died last year. Good answer.
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Prince Charles is Abusing His Status Again
He is lobbying the Government to protect the future of alternative medicine from new EU rules.
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Priest Apologizes for Swearing at Revenue Officials
The priest, a convicted tax evader, called them a ruder and more sexist name than the paper admits.