Catholic preaches to Mormons about evangelizing and says "faith's beauty can lead even athiests to God." I guess if you can believe in a talking snake and Paul's psychotic experience on the road to Damascus you can believe that too.
Thursday's school shooter had been bullied. CBS belittles the kid's experience then quotes witnesses confirming it. Well, so much for anti-bullying campaigns's effectiveness. Of course lessening the anguish of the victims was never the true inspiration for those campaigns anyway, it was just to keep kids from snapping and killing the cool kids. Seems it didn't work at all!
Perhaps evangelical leaders supporting more gun control will keep the cool kids safe from the revenge of the nerds. ...assuming evangelicals will still call themselves evangicals. This WaPo editorial says the word needs to be rebranded.
Not new, but new-ish: Mormon women declare "wear pants to church day." I have always found the insistance on dresses for women and pants for men really stupid, considering Christ is always pictured in a caftan, a.k.a. a dress!
I ran across the above link after reading this article about the religious objection to contraception coverage at the same site. The author is Howard M. Friedman, of The Religious Clause blog, which I follow. I highly recommend the blog and the article.
Catholics and Protestants are going at it again in Ireland.
Being "spiritual" without having someone else's ancient delusional writings to frame and justify your magical thinking is supposedly related to mental illness. (This article includes a link to a Businessweek page of LOL graphics about Correlation vs Causation)
Huge study being headed up by atheists. This guy calls Dawkins "philosophically uninformed," which makes me wonder about his aim to study religion's place in human evolution. I look forward to Dawkins' review of their publication.
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