Category Archives: Judaism
US: The scariest thing in the world…
This post is extensively linked. It’s tragic that there are so many examples of misogyny, but it’s great to see them all exposed in one place. Girls, these things happen because there are men with power who fear you and … Continue reading
Filed under Stupidity, Human rights abuse, Women, Catholicism, Sexuality, Abortion, Anglican/Episcopalianism, Islamicism, Institutionalised discrimination and bigotry, Fundamentalist Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Hindism, Buddhism, Protestant sects, Orthodox Churches, Manufactured outrage, Mormonism, Science
Global: What people believe in depends on where they’re born…
… unless they use, you know, logic and stuff. Just saying. H/T to Jerry Coyne for the reference. Anders Jacobsens blog
Israel: ‘Messianic’ leaders mislead public
The recently retired chief of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency has described the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, as men driven by ”messianic feelings” and said that he had ”no faith” in them to lead a … Continue reading
Filed under Employees, Fellow-believers, Judaism, Manufactured outrage, Non-believers, Officials, Stupidity, Taxpayers, Troops
Australia: State inquiry into religious sex assaults
SMH A WIDE-RANGING inquiry has been launched into sexual abuse in religious organisations after revelations some 40 alleged victims committed suicide. The 40 were allegedly abused by members of the Catholic Church in Victoria but the inquiry will also look … Continue reading
Australia: Good news, bad news…
SMH TWENTY faith leaders have signed a letter urging people to declare their support for same sex marriage to two federal parliamentary inquiries on the issue. The move follows six Victorian Catholic bishops writing to their parishioners to tell them … Continue reading
Israel: We don’t need ‘show cause’ with God on our side
SMH With her muscles wasting and her heart under increasing strain, 30-year-old Hana al-Shalabi is on her 41st day without food, and doctors say her condition is worsening by the day. She has been joined by at least 29 Palestinian … Continue reading
Israel: Air strikes kill 15
SMH Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants and killing 15 of them as the deadliest Gaza violence in over a year showed no signs of abating. Despite … Continue reading
Filed under Human rights abuse, Islamicism, Judaism, Non-believers, Religious wars, Troops
US: Another circumcision death in Brooklyn
NY Daily News A two-week old boy died at a Brooklyn hospital in September after contracting herpes through a religious circumcision ritual that ignited controversy in 2005 after another infant died, the Daily News has learned. The unidentified infant died … Continue reading
Filed under Children, Family members, Human rights abuse, Judaism, Patients, Sexuality, Stupidity
US: Atheists ‘childish’…
…says a man who thinks a Sky Fairy told him to cut bits off boys’ penises. Rabbi Alan Lurie
Filed under Atheists, Judaism, Manufactured outrage, Mystical woo, Non-believers, Stupidity
US: Two for the price of one!
Now, if he’d used the Torah to light a sacrificial wafer, and shut that up in a Koran, he could have made a grand slam. The Denver Post. A viral YouTube video in which Denver-based Christian preacher Ralph Messer literally … Continue reading
