The evangelical tactics used at such camps are on occasions manipulative, and harmful nonsense is promulgated.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Toronto Sun on Markuze investigation
Markuze’s mother says “Maybe they don’t understand his message or something.”
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Montreal police “goaded” into investigating Markuze
It’s like this: death threats are death threats.
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Montreal police investigating Markuze’s threats
He is “accused of making hundreds, if not thousands of deadly threats.” It’s thousands – many, many thousands.
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Vatican investigates bishop
For protecting child-raping priests? Don’t be silly; for his work with gay organizations.
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Vatican threatens priest with dismissal
For raping children? Don’t be silly; for supporting the ordination of women.
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Anders Breivik’s hatred of women
He writes that the “fate of European civilisation depends on European men steadfastly resisting Politically Correct feminism.”
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Do You Have A Moment For Fancy Man Rights?
Allow me to briefly inform you of the pitiable plight of many fancy men across this great nation.
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Obama bars US entry for violators of human rights
The proclamation bars entry of immigrant and non-immigrant aliens who organize or participate in war crimes or serious violations of human rights.
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Ryan Lizza on Michele Bachmann
It is a curiosity that a politician with a history of pushing sectarian religious beliefs in government is a hero to a libertarian movement.
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Michele Bachmann’s intellectual influences
“She recommended this book on her website for a number of years. It is an
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Supreme Court should limit ‘ministerial exemption’
The Americans United brief urges the Supreme Court not to deny judicial access to Americans who face discrimination by religious groups.
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Warren Jeffs gets life in prison
For sexually assaulting two underage girls he nailed in what his church deemed “spiritual marriages.”
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Rock Beyond Belief will take place
“This just might be the turning point in the foxhole atheist community’s struggle for acceptance, tolerance and respect,” Justin Griffith said.
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‘Let’s go Boots?’ ‘No, Body Shop.’
If this is the Amadou Diallo moment for Blighty, then why are minorities and the working class the principal victims of “socially excluded” aggression?
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Skeptic lawyer on the two cultures redux
Arguments for the existence of God (or Gods) are not pseudoscientific. They’re just not testable.
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Zimbabwe: torture camp discovered
“They beat us 40 whips in the morning, 40 in the afternoon and 40 in the evening,” said one victim.
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Carl Zimmer on Greenfield and Twitter and a meme
I point to the increase in esophageal cancer and I point to The Brady Bunch. That’s all. #greenfieldism
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Martin Robbins on Greenfield on Twitter and autism
If she is going to make these claims, she needs to be able to back them up with evidence.
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The year’s best astronomy photos
From the New Scientist.