Meaning crappers turn faces away, or bums away? Tricky stuff, theology.
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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Egypt to Appeal Court Ruling in Favor of Baha’is
MP says Baha’is are infidels who should be killed on the grounds that they had changed their religion.
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Culture War in Poland
Mocking Catholicism right out; saying rude things about Jews, that’s another matter.
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P. Charles Inaugurates Woolly Tent
Woven from the finest goat hair in Saudi Arabia; represents sacred geometric and astrological symbols.
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BNP Thanks MP for Publicity
The BNP put forward 13 candidates in Barking and Dagenham, winning 11 seats.
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Thomas Nagel on Bernard Williams
He brought philosophical reflection to an opulent array of subjects.
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More From Amartya Sen and Robert Kagan
Violence is deliberately cultivated by the instigators of sectarian brutality.
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Iranian Philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo Arrested
He has written and edited more than a dozen books on philosophy and political science.
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Amartya Sen and Robert Kagan Discuss
Western parochialists and Islamic extremists argue for the primacy of religious identity.
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Hitchens on Juan Cole
‘A minor nuisance on the fringes of the academic Muslim apologist community.’
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Train Cars for Women: Protection or Segregation?
Rio de Janeiro joins Tokyo and Mexico City
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More Students Study Philosophy at A-level
Philosophy is growing in popularity when the Government is calling for vocational education.
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Conspiracy of Cultural Invasion and Dress Code
‘Although persons who espouse these views are in the minority, their demands are regularly met.’
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‘Wahhabism’ in the Balkans
Speaking of a ‘Muslim community’ is as misleading in the Balkans as it is in Western Europe.
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Media Ignore Bush Signing Statements Issue
Because – it’s not important?
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Radio Open Source on Signing Statements
Lawyers discuss.
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Arrest of Iranian Philosopher Jahanbegloo
His arrest was lamented at a gathering at the Association of Iranian Journalists on Wednesday.
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HRW on Jahanbegloo Arrest
HRW spokesman Hadi Ghaemi said from the detention is a bad sign for academic freedoms in Iran.
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Jean-François Revel 1924-2006
Without Marx or Jesus a best-seller but won almost universally hostile reviews from European critics.
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Le Monde on Jean-François Revel
Philosophe, journaliste, écrivain: une figure brillante et anticonformiste de la droite intellectuelle.