Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Post-Catholic Britain?

  Published: June 28, 2007, 8:13 am

  Tags: Catholicism, Health, Natural Law, Politics, Ruth Kelly, Secularism

  The indult is on its way, to be published 7 July. Some senior bishops already have it. Meanwhile, I am trying to check out a bizarre rumour I've heard - I stress it is just a rumour at present and...

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• Turkey's elections

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Secularism

  tussle between religion and secularism and will prove to be a test case for the legitimacy of political Islam "The implications go far beyond the plains of Anatolia or the teeming bazaars of Istanbul. This election is being perceived across the Muslim world as a test case for political Islam...[it] will show whether Turkey can go forward

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• In the Heart of Freedom, in Chains

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:55 pm

  Tags: Secularism Culture War, Culture War, Family

  Front Page Magazine | Myron Magnet in City Journal | July 30, 2007 Two April days threw a clarifying light on the state of race in America. On the 11th, North Carolina's attorney general exonerated three white Duke students of the rape charges that a black stripper had lodged with much press fanfare a year [...]

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• Bush Apologizes to Witches

  Published: September 2, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: George W Bush, Wicca, Paganism, Pagans, Secularism, Religion, U S Military, Spirituality

  Good news Wicca has been officially recognized by the U.S. Military as a religion.In this BBC report an update on the recent recognition of Wicca as a religion by the U.S. military.Pagan branch gains strength31 Aug 2007 Followers of Wicca, a branch of paganism, have stepped up efforts for recognition of the religion.

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• Think Again: a blog at the NY Times by Stanley Fish:

  Published: September 4, 2007, 9:41 pm

  Tags: Liberalism, Fish Stanley, Secularism, Times Select

  and Secularism: One and the SameTags: liberalism, secularism Back in June, I wrote three columns ( The Three Atheists, Atheism and Evidence and Is Religion Man-Made? ) about the recent vogue of atheist books, books that accuse religion of being empty of genuine substance, full of malevolent and destructive passion,

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• China in midst of pre-olypics religious crackdown...

  Published: September 15, 2007, 4:49 am

  Tags: China, Fundamentalists, Secularism, Olympics, Abc News, 2008, Fuck Religion

  Good riddance religion... you are not welcome at the Olympics. Perhaps one of the most secular and beautifully godless happening on earth -- an absence of religion and crazy fundamentalists would not be noticed. I hope they have a complete crack down on islam there... what a splendid time for an attack that would be. Aug. 8, 2008, marks the

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• God business

  Published: September 16, 2007, 9:58 am

  Tags: Atheism, Polygamy, Secularism, Agnostics, Hindu, Creator, God News

  Well, well, well ... weekend again. And so, on the usual not so serious note, let'sreturn to God business again. No stories today of the Christian variety of God popping in to create this wonderfully perfect planet with its wonderfully perfect Homo sapiens sapiens at the top of the food chain (are the believers really suggesting that we are the

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• Christian couple forced to quit fostering after refusing to tell kids its ‘good to be gay’

  Published: October 23, 2007, 4:50 pm

  Tags: Sexual Politics, Secularism Culture War

  Daily Mail | James Mills | October 23, 2007 As devoted foster parents, Vincent and Pauline Matherick have provided a stable family home for almost 30 vulnerable children. But the couple’s latest foster son is being taken away from them by social workers because they have refused to promote homosexuality.

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• Secularists accuse evangelical leader of being 'unChristian'

  Published: November 14, 2007, 9:29 am

  Tags: Christianity General, Judaism, Secularism

  It's like a joke, isn't it. A joke about the evangelical preacher, the Chief Rabbi and the secularist. At the Evangelical Alliance's Temple Address last night, the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks delivered a speech calling for religious tolerance. EA director...

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• TNR on Romney

  Published: November 21, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Christian Conservatives, Mormons, Secularists, Republican Party, Religious Right, Secularism, 2008 Elections, Republicans, Mitt Romney, Evangelicals, Politics

  to hate Mitt Romney. The secularism that has generally prevailed since World War II is precisely what has allowed a Catholic to be elected president and a Jew to be nominated as vice president, among other ways that religious tolerance has expanded. Latter-Day Skeptics by Josh Patashnik in The New Republic Mormons against Romney. Ever since

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• Pakistan democracy, terrorism, Islam and hope

  Published: November 30, 2007, 7:51 pm

  Tags: Radical Islam, Al Qaeda, At Tmv, Columnists, Human Rights, Political Islam, Pervez Musharraf, Islamists, Islamism, Pakistan, Terrorism, War On Terror, Religion, Foreign Affairs, Breaking News, Asia, Secularism, Islam, Media, Politics, Nwfp

  between fundamentalism and secularism is scattered and global. Because of a concourse of circumstances and history, Pakistan has become the focal point of these flames similar to the spot upon which a magnifying glass concentrates the sun's roaming rays. Musharraf's political troubles may have been worsened by his military cooperation with

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• UK Imam's daughter gets death threats for apostasy

  Published: December 5, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Christianity General, Islam, Persecution, Secularism, Violence, War

  An imam's daughter who converted to Christianity after fleeing an arranged marriage is under police protection after receiving death threats from her family. Read our exclusive report on this at Times Online. The story of Hannah, aged 32, will be...

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• Romney Re-Launches

  Published: December 6, 2007, 10:58 am

  Tags: Moral Decline, Civil Liberties, Ideology, Religious Right, Christian Conservatives, Moral Values, Human Rights, Mormons, Ideologies, George H W Bush, Freedom Of Speech, Society, 2008 Elections, Mitt Romney, Christianity, Secularism, Evangelicals, Politics

  Just saw part of his speech HERE. Now he is being congratulated by George H. W. and Barbara Bush. Earlier this morning, I read excerpts from the speech he planned to give and concluded that Romney does not sufficiently respect the necessary separation of Church and State. MSNBC First Read comments on the excerpts. According to Political Wire,

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• Freedom is slavery; increasing secularism is increasing theocracy

  Published: September 8, 2007, 9:41 pm

  Tags: Secularism, Liberalism, Theocracy

  the evils of liberalism and secularism, and support an intrusive, paternalistic state that controls all its citizens' most private decisions - when they will give birth, who they are permitted to marry, under what circumstances they are allowed to die. Most notably, the Christian right supports an omnipotent, unaccountable executive who operates

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• Angels with dirty faces?

  Published: December 22, 2007, 3:36 am

  Tags: Stamps, Humour, Silly, Paranoia, Royal Mail, Secularism, Christmas, Christianity

  alerts about the march of secularism, as demonstrated by this year's UK Christmas stamps. Here are the godless little blighters:As you can see, Royal Mail is now riddled like a Swiss Cheese with militant secularists. Rumour has it, special instructions have been given to village postmasters not to issue the Madonnas. You can imagine the riot

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