Researchers from the Canadian university of Montreal have complied a thorough study of Mother Teresa’s life and the conclusions are, well, not the nicest music the saint loving religious types like to hear. In what seems like the biggest “Bravo” ever echoed for Christopher Hitchens work on Mother Teresa these unbiased researchers found it difficult… Continue Reading
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Pope Resigns as Catholic Church Last Fig Leaf Drops
The pope is old, maybe even pretty sick, and he can not perform his duties the way he would have liked to do, and in a move that should serve as a fine example to politicians all over the world he decided to step down and retire from the papacy. This is not the kind… Continue Reading
Sometimes, What You Believe Can Get You Killed
Most people will not understand what rattlesnakes have got to do with faith, or god or Christianity. It is very strange indeed that some people connect these deadly reptiles with anything that is spiritually based, but not a complete shocker that some people found a way to incorporate snakes into their belief system. In one… Continue Reading
Russia, Punk and the Devil
When the punk group “pussy riot” (which you can already understand is a girl only group) surprised the audience of Moscow’s central church with a free short concert the leaders of the church (as well as the old-new Russian president Mr. Putin) was not amused, not amused at all. “The devil work”, yes, you did… Continue Reading
Katharina Henot Was Not a Witch
This next story comes to us from Germany, where 400 years after the church led a psychopathic witch hunt into the main activity of the local peoples for a decade or so it is now moving to clear those who were burnt alive of any charges of “playing with Satan”. All of this could sound… Continue Reading
Church of the Nativity Has Seen Better Days
This is one video that does not need to have much text attached to it, but the bottom line here is that in all religions it seems that there is no agreement on the way and the exact version followers should practice, and yet it is surprising to some to discover that “holy” men come… Continue Reading
The Pope Likes iPads
It looks like the head of the Catholic Church does advance with time, here he is using a tablet computer to set a mountain alight with the Christmas spirit. It is a shame that the same people find it so hard to do the same when this comes to sex and condoms, because just moving… Continue Reading
Palestinians Heritage Agenda at UNESCO
The news today tell the story of the Palestinian authority agenda at UNESCO, mainly of having Bethlehem registered as a “Palestinian heritage site”, this is done to politically gain some points against Israel and promote the participation of the PA into the UN as a member state. The trouble with this request is the poor… Continue Reading
Rape Victims Prosecute the Vatican
Don’t get your hopes high, however it does look like a group of rape victims by the hands of clerics in the Catholic church decided to go against the Vatican and try to persecute the institution for its share of responsibility for the crimes as well as the cover ups that usually follow all these… Continue Reading