The good ol’ Washington Post recently took on the subject of “Is God’s wrath at work in natural disasters?” As you might expect, it pits one side against the other and misses the point. Don’t get me wrong. There have been such things as God stepping in and deliberately causing…
Some things that haven’t completely slipped under the radar of current events include news on the Euro, Thailand, a UK preacher arrested for “abusive or insulting language” and, of course, Texas textbooks. Oh! I almost forgot about the Gospel According to Glenn Beck. The Euro Greece is just a symptom…
You have probably heard the arguments by secularists against tax exemptions for religious groups. However, Australian Senator Nick Xenophon is arguing that cults should have their tax exempt status pulled, as reported in ReligionNewsBlog article “Cults thrive on tax-free status, senator says”. Would pulling their tax-free status really work, though? …
6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. (Genesis 11:6, King James Version) The NIV renders the last part of that verse as…
Unfortunately, ReligionNewsBlog seems to been having issues yesterday (articles are throwing some type of XML error that wasn’t showing up yesterday), so the link below might not work. Recently, you might recall that the Pope made an offer that Anglicans who were disturbed by trends in their church would be…
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News correspondent Neil Macdonald recently wrote the article "Are we all facing a Greek-style future?" in which he mentions GTA. Garner Ted believed governments were becoming sinfully profligate and that there would be dire consequences, and my father, with his deep Calvinist streak — he never…
It seems that Stephen Hawking believes that “Humans Should Fear Aliens” in a story in the Huffington Post, via COG-FF’s website. He states that aliens might come to plunder our resources. That is not the only bleakness in his interview, either. He believes that human beings must colonize space or…
The Religion News Blog ran a story about the “Furor over French Muslim woman fined for driving veiled“. She was fined around $29 because it was alleged that the Islamic veil restricted her view while driving. This is just one of the latest stories out of France, where tensions between…
In a pretty amazing story, BBC News reports that the "First oxygen-free animals found". Deep in the Mediterranean Sea, 3 species of Loricifera have been found. The scientists verified that eggs from them could hatch in an oxygen-free environment. This is pretty amazing, and it shows that life is often…
Heard that on the news tonight. The volcano over in Europe is still causing a great deal of problems for travelers. The rail systems are being overloaded as people use them in lieu of planes, or in some cases trying to get to somewhere they can actually get on a…