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Huffington Post has a report on many decades of sexual and physical abuse of thousands of Irish children by priests and nuns in Catholic run reform schools.  ( I do not want to be accused of just picking on Protestants in Africa and their American supporters. )

Evangelical pastors torturing and sometimes killing children because they accuse even 6 and 8 year olds of being witches.  Thus has been the blessing of evangelical Christianity in significant areas of Africa.  Over 2000 evangelical churches have participated.

I think egoism and Spirit are about as antithetical as it is possible for two concepts to be.

Any questions anyone might have had about the religious fantasies and hallucinations behind those who launched aggressive war on Iraq can be put to rest with the publication of Donald Rumsfeld’s pretty memos to George Bush II. Our foreign policy was determined in part at least by George Bush’s reaction to carefully selected Biblical verses.

Stephen Schwarz  uncovers interesting research on how meditation increases grey matter.

Beliefnet has just published their first ‘Pagan gallery’ – 12 Magic Spells Some are more workings than spells in the narrower sense, and bring in several traditions of folk magick.  I have not used any of these particular spells or workings myself, but  some are similar to ones I do use, and several look worth…

This is wonderful.  If you didn’t see him, see him now!

My spirituality and torture post made some people angry, who claimed that the PEW polls on torture showing more church goers were supporters of torture than non-Christians were somehow unreliable or not representative.   Now some other polls have emerged.

The recent plethora of books by militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is beginning to generate a good deal of return fire from people writing within the Christian tradition, either as sophisticated adherents or writers recognizing that on balance our society benefited from it rather more than it lost.  Christopher…

Alex, Snowball, Betty – recently birds have been transforming the world we live in – as we discover what had been in front of us for thousands of years. The transformation is in our perceptions and understanding.  
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