Leaving Out the Good Parts The Comedians treads a thin line between love and Haiti Anne V 'Muse' Model! Study nonbelievers have small brains Sledding in Hawaii Maria Shriver Hires Private Eye To Delve Into Arnie's Life EDL’s Guramit “Singh” continues lying open letter to Sikhs Part 2 Averted apocalypse media meltdown Big Scientists Pick Science’s Biggest Mistakes | Discoblog Commentary Is This about American Muslims or America Gambia Islam And Extremism Catholic abuse scandal over question Italians Search for da Vinci's Mona Lisa Model May 13 2011 Eugene Peterson Nine Days that Changed World Receives Dual Honors at 32nd Annual Telly Awards Obama's Reelection Report Card difference science religion What can say atheism Why Aren’t Christians Smarter

I thought one of benefits of being an atheist is that you didn't have to care about church camp. Not so: "the children of Atheists, Freethinkers, Humanists, Brights, or whatever other terms might be applied to those who hold to a naturalistic, not supernatural world view" can go to Camp Quest. This is one of [...] Graham Greene's historically reflective story of the terror of 'Papa Doc' loses out to the Burton/Taylor romantic juggernaut **Director: Peter Glenville Entertainment grade: C+ History grade: A–** François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was elected president of Haiti in 1957. His unrestrained brutality and embezzlement, combined with a personality cult based around Haiti's folk religion, Voodoo, made him one of the most notorious dictators of his time. Novelist and screenwriter Graham Greene based The Comedians on his experiences in Duvalier's Haiti. ## Politics Mr Brown (Richard Burton) arrives back in Haiti after failing to sell his Port-au-Prince hotel. For this production, Port-au-Prince was recreated in Dahomey, now Benin. Most Haitians are descended from slaves transported from that part of west Africa: there are similarities of culture, religion and, sadly, underdevelopment. "I've worked in many worse places," said Burton cheerfully in the making-of documentary. "Like the Sahara desert, and south Wales." Filming in Haiti was not an option. Duvalier, still very much in power, banned Greene's novel and this Hollywood adaptation. He also published a booklet called Graham Greene Démasqué – Finally Exposed, describing the novelist as "A liar, a cretin, a stool-pigeon … unbalanced, sadistic, perverted … the shame of proud and noble England ... Anne V flaunts her curves on the cover of Muse's latest issue. The 25-year-old Russian model, and girlfriend of Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, worked with photographer Harry Peccinotti for the magazine shoot. "I knew that Harry and Anne would be a great collaboration and could create a strong impact o a Hot Summer cover," said Muse [...] Okay, so Religion News Service has a provocative story on a provocative study that I've seen in a few papers. But the headlines that are running with the story are curious, to say the least. Read more on Study: nonbelievers have small brains… When I visited Hawaii's Big Island last year, I stopped by the Hulihe'e Palace in Kailua-Kona, once the vacation residence of Hawaiian royalty. In one of its lovingly restored rooms, I spotted a diorama featuring what looked like a sled. A sled? In Hawaii? I was intrigued. Before the European missionaries arrived, he'e holua or… Maria's Preparing For A Divorce War... _This article is a direct continuation of Part 1, which was published yesterday, and discusses further extracts from the EDL spokesman's recent open letter to numerous British Sikhs who have condemned the EDL. Readers are therefore strongly advised to read Part 1 first before continuing below._ > "One of my closest international allies is Rabbi Shiffren." This is the same Rabbi Shifren who has been condemned by numerous senior Jewish leaders for his anti-Muslim fanaticism, ended up having to be forcibly thrown out of a conference by five conservative rabbis after he started screaming abuse at Reverend Jesse Jackson, and is on record as making the following extremely derogatory remarks about Muslims during a speech at an EDL demonstration in October 2010: "In those so-called freedom centres, they plot to destroy and kill us. We're still waiting for the Muslims to make peace with each other. They eat each other alive, like the dogs that they are..." It is worth remembering that the EDL also have international links to Jewish convicted terrorists who are not only completely banned from entering Israel, but are also part of groups which the FBI have officially designated as terrorist organisations. > ... Item 1: A journalist sent me a link to the clip of the Good Morning America show embedded here. Right at the beginning of this scene from a recent episode, the host asserts "A lot of Christians believe today is judgment day." Read more on Averted apocalypse, media meltdown… Earlier this week Richard H. Thaler posted a question to selected Edge contributors, asking them for their favorite examples of wrong scientific theories that were held for long periods of time. You know, little ideas like "the earth is flat." The contributor's responses came from all different fields and thought processes, but there were a few [...] (RNS) Lately, Congress appears to be obsessed with Muslims. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is holding hearings Tuesday (March 29) on "Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims," and Chairman Peter King has announced a second set of hearings on "Radicalization [...] It has now become rampant in the world that some unscrupulous elements of society masquerade themselves under the banner of Islam to commit atrocities in the world. This has shaped world opinion against the noble and non-violent religion of Islam as many now see it as a religion that is synonymous with terrorism and extremism. Even though most of such people are resident in Muslim countries and often pretend to rally behind the Qur'an to commit the most heinous crimes against God and humanity; the fact remains that such people have nothing to do with the Qur'an or Islam. They are people who are unable to properly appreciate Allah, who fail to live by the true Islamic moral values commanded by Him, who live far removed from the fine, warm and loving moral values of our prophet and have fallen under material indoctrination. Reported incidents of child abuse by US clergy have declined from just under 800 in 1980 to 17 in 2008. Is the crisis over? The publication of the John Jay Institute report into the US Catholic church's child abuse crisis marks probably the last word in scholarly and scientific investigation of the story. Among its many conclusions, one is so obvious that it has hardly been discussed at all: there will be no further large scale scandals in the US. American Catholic clergy are now vanishingly unlikely to abuse children sexually. The same seems true in England and Wales. The crime will never entirely be stamped out but it's difficult to imagine it diminishing further. The report shows a clear and steady decline in the incidence of reported abuse from about 1980 onwards. We now know of almost 800 allegations for 1980. In 2008 there were 17. It attributes this fall to a mixture of greater awareness of the crime, within and outside the church, along with much better training of candidates for the priesthood (who also tend to be older and more mature than once they were). So: are the facts right? Is the ... Italian researchers have begun hunt for remains of the woman whom they believe may have modeled for Leonardo da Vinci "You enter into the soul, the spirit of somebody else by listening to them, not by telling them something," according to this retired Presbyterian minister who says he misses the intimacy that comes with pastoral ministry. WASHINGTON, D.C. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- 'Nine Days that Changed the World,' hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich, and produced by Citizens United Productions in association with Gingrich Productions and Peace River Company, has received dual honors at the 32nd Annual Telly Awards, winning a Silver Award in the category of Religion and Spirituality, and a Bronze Award in the category of History and Biography. A Silver Award is the Telly's highest honor. The president's political strengths and weaknesses, as he opens the 2012 campaign To those of us who like science, the difference between science and religion can seem pretty self-evident: Religion requires faith, for one thing, and science demands evidence. But that doesn't always satisfy the true believers. Is there anything that the tools which science uses to study religion can tell us about unbelief? Science must consider atheism as naturalistically as it considers religion. The word describes a number of beliefs around which social structures may form, or may not. It clearly isn't natural or any kind of human universal, since it is unknown in most cultures and at most times. But the same is true of any particular theological belief. They are all equally susceptible to sociological and psychological analysis. Psychological research suggests some of the ways in which atheism is unnatural and needs to be taught. Sociology tells how people don't believe, and what this means in their particular societies. Neither of these, of course, have any bearing on its truth. But still they are interesting to discuss. * Religion * Atheism guardian.co.uk (C) Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Have you ever wondered why Christians aren't smarter? I mean, we have the only true religion, we have a Book which is responsible for all of Western Civilization, and we serve a God who can safely call Himself the supreme champion at every trivia contest. VOA found concern, skepticism and doubt among regional residents observing pro-democracy protests in Muslim world
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