The fundamentalists in the Vatican have often chosen to protect paedophile priests, while hounding gay clergy.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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UN Move to Criminalize ‘Defamation’ of Religion
The resolution’s drafters hope to circumvent national constitutional protections for freedom of speech.
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‘Overparenting’
Does it produce pampered ninnies or selfish, authoritarian robots? Or both? Or neither?
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From Meritocracy to Celebritocracy
The celebrity class may help to persuade people that Britain is a fairer place than it really is.
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Borders Stands Up for Free Speech
Borders will launch the Patrick Jones book that Waterstones disavowed on orders from ‘Christian Voice.’
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Sharia Courts Flourishing in UK
Nice for men, foul for women.
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Johann Hari on Charles Windsor as President
If not for his birth, CW’s ‘wise’ arguments would be gathering dust in the reject bin at newspapers’ letters pages.
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Bishops Discuss How to Control Voters
Annual meeting of Catholic bishops discussed whether they gave sufficient ‘guidance’ to Catholic voters.
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The Terror of Palin
Concerned Women for America released a statement saying: ‘Take that, feminists.’
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‘International Socialism’ Hails the Taliban
‘For too long most of the left in Pakistan has identified the jihadis and the Taliban as the main enemy.’
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Bush Admin Rushes Through a New Rule
Sweeping protections for health care providers who oppose procedures on religious grounds.
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Religious Hegemony in Ulster
Exclusivist Christian ideology reflects the narrow authoritarian religious and political culture of N Ireland.
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Sweden’s New ‘Halal-TV’ is Controversial
Fun new show hosted by three women in hijab; secular and liberal Muslims not represented.
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Women Still Wait for Justice in Algeria
From forcing women to veil, to rapes and assassinations, fundamentalists imposed their rule.
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The Atheists are Gathering
Run for your lives.
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French ‘Virgin’ Annulment Reversed
Annulment called ‘a fatwa against the emancipation of women’ and ‘a ruling handed down in Kandahar.’
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Does Religion Make You Nice?
Outsider status can have a corrosive effect on morality.
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Nirmukta on BJP Doublespeak
It has been reported that there is a Military School in Nasik to train Hindu terrorists.
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Nirmukta on Deepak Chopra and New Age Claptrap
The writings and speeches of the new-age gurus are read with utmost seriousness by their followers.
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Meera Nanda: ‘Why I Criticize Hinduism’
‘Hinduism, my critics tell me, is far more rational and “scientific” than these other “Semitic” religions.’