Thomas Williams love child: Priest who preaches morality on TV confesses to scandal

The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a paedophile, has been hit by another scandal after their most famous priest confessed to fathering a child several years ago. Rev. Thomas Williams, a moral theologian, lecturer and  …

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Beaverton Grace Bible Church Sues Family For Defamation After Bad Reviews, Critical Blog

Officials at Beaverton Grace Bible Church weren't too thrilled to learn that a former member had written negative online reviews of the service and congregation, so they filed a lawsuit against an Oregon mother and her family. Julie Anne Smith, her daughter and three other com …

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Obama has up to $1 million in JPMorgan account

No wonder Barack Obama is being nice to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: The president has up to $1 million parked in Dimon’s bank. Obama’s money is held in a “JPMorgan Chase Private Client Asset Management” checking account, according to the president’s …

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Norway shows the way by separating church and state

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Catholic School Drops Student Health Care To Protest Contraception Coverage

Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic school in Ohio, made news today for dropping its student health-care plan in protest of the Obama administration's decision that health insurers must cover contraception. (Via the Huffington Post.)The school announced online tha …

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Victor Stenger: Scientists and Religion

I find it surprising that most scientists, believers and nonbelievers alike, refuse to apply their critical thinking skills to matters of religion. Unless religious teachings impinge directly on their work, such as in opposing the teaching of evolution or, more recently, in den …

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Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane | | AlterNet

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.

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Report: Obama Ally Offered Jeremiah Wright Cash To Keep Quiet

When sermons of Obama’s Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, surfaced during the Iowa primaries, it threatened to derail Obama’s campaign. ABC aired one where Wright screamed, “Goddamn America!” Edward Klein interviewed Wright, who told him Obama’s tea …

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America, the home of conspiracy theories, creationism and climate skepticism is also a scientific powerhouse; British reporter Neil Denny takes a road trip to explore the contradictions.

How Rational is America? Neil Denny: There is a familiar cliché in the UK media of an overtly religious, backward-looking, anti-intellectual and anti-science America, an America under sustained attack from the forces of irrationality. ...Yet it remains a fact that …

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