Education has ‘a dark side’: people who question church authority.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Priest Threatens Obama Supporters
Tax-exempt fanatic says voting for Obama ‘constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.’
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Unelected Charles Wants More Power
Wants to go on promoting anti-science nonsense as king.
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Somalia: Islamists Whip People Who Dance
‘We neither killed them nor injured them, but only whipped them according to the Islamic law.’
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Prince Charles Will Mouth Off as King
Says he would like his role to evolve so that his ‘knowledge and experience’ are not wasted.
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Bad Science: ‘I Married a Horse’
Surely the magazine had a responsibility to verify medical information before publishing such claims?
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Matthias Rath and Alternative Health Eurosceptics
The alternative health sector is lobbying the EU parliament against legislative regulation of their products.
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Paul Krugman: Depression Economics Returns
The rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
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Karen Armstrong Talks Literal Nonsense
‘The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions – but sometimes you would never know it.’
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Mormons Tipped the Scale on Prop 8
Leadership issued a decree to be read to congregations: ‘the formation of families is central to the Creator’s plan.’
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Support Political Prisoners in Burundi
Several opposition leaders have been arrested including Jean Claude Kavumbagu and Alexis Sinduhije.
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‘Christian Voice’ Gets Book Launch Canceled
Patrick Jones said he had not singled out Christianity in his poems, but was questioning beliefs in society.
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UN: ‘Defamation of Religion’ Should be Banned
‘Yes, I believe that defamation of religion should be banned,’ official said in reply to question.
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Wishful Thinking
Saudi King is ‘articulating the central Muslim value of religious pluralism.’ The wot?
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Bush Says Freedom is God’s Gift
Defends ‘religious dissidents and believers’; no mention of atheists.
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Human Solidarity in a World Without God
Human solidarity is in fact a rational response to the ‘human condition,’ as Schopenhauer saw.
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Acid Attack on Afghan Schoolgirls
Attackers have sprayed acid in the faces of at least 15 girls near a school in Kandahar.
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Thailand: Prison for Lèse Majesté
Army warns it will not tolerate anything that could be interpreted as criticism of the royal family.
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Catholic Bishops Warn of Abortion Fight
Bishop Jaime Soto fumed, ‘There really is plenty of choice for women in this culture.’
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Burundi: Journalist Jailed for ‘Insulting the President’
Richard Wilson on why some thought Nkurunziza was not too bad. Wishful thinking, yes, but more.