The allegations against the Baha’is are as nonsensical as they are unjust.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Catholic Priest Disses Blair’s ‘Faith Foundation’
Cites religious freedom and imposition of a ‘politically correct’ interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures.
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Guardian Hosts Reactionary Catholic Tirade
Horrors: Obama ‘seeks to pass a raft of laws that baldly contradict magisterial Catholic teaching.’
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Judge Rules Child ‘Neglected’ by Parents
Daniel Hauser stopped chemo; he and his parents opted for ‘alternative medicines’ based on religious beliefs.
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Being Shouted At in Iran
We can only hope the spirit of beauty will one day crush the plodding literal-mindedness of the misogynists in charge.
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Cambridge Announces Universal Respect
University amended its equal opportunities policy to say it ‘respects religious or philosophical beliefs of all kinds.’
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Notre Dame, Obama, Abortion, Football, Identity
It’s Catholic, it has a football team, so it’s part of the ‘Catholic identity’ of people who’ve never seen it.
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Daniel Hauser, at 13, Can’t Read
Daniel says he is a Nemenhah medicine man but can’t say what teachings he has had to become one.
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Ed Brandon Reviews Robert Park
On the nature of religious belief in a world increasingly disenchanted by the progress of scientific understanding.
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Cleric Says Prayer is Part of Medicine
‘Every doctor, every nurse needs to be easy and familiar with the language of the spirit in order to express the almost inexpressible.’
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Journalist Talks to Children of the Taliban
Like the teenage boy who asks why women are wandering around outside.
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Pew Forum on the Establishment Clause
Case law on government funding of religion has shifted away from separationism in recent years.
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The Banking World’s Responsibility
FT journalist Gillian Tett is a cultural anthropologist, and she saw the wheels coming off.
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Global Concern at Suu Kyi Arrest
Her lawyer blames the visitor from Missouri for her arrest, calling him a ‘fool.’
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Murphy’O’Connor: ‘Atheists Not Fully Human’
Catholic cardinal offers the hand of friendship. Or something.
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Former FBI Interrogator Says Torture Didn’t Work
Non-threatening interrogation approach got results, then was shut down when CIA took over.
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Rice Aide Says Bush Admin Wanted to Torture
Refusal to acknowledge legitimacy of Common Article III of Geneva Convention was the sign.
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Low-calory Water: Only £1.49 the 500ml Bottle
Bio-synergy Skinny Water is the first in the world to be fortified with l-carnitine and chromium.
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Reading, Writing, and Original Sin
Child Evangelism Fellowship targets public elementary schools in Santa Barbara.
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Barbara Forrest Responds to Francis Beckwith
Forrest called Beckwith a supporter of ID in her paper ‘The Non-epistemology of Intelligent Design.’
