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Comet Elenin is hurtling toward Earth — and will usher in the end of the world on October 16, say astronomy observers. October 16 is pretty darn close to the Rev. Harold Camping’s revised doomsday prediction. If you recall, this spring his followers plastered the U.S. with billboards while he thundered warning from his California radio network. The…

The world is coming to the end of a 50-year debt supercycle, John Mauldin says, and the austerity required to put us back on solid financial footing will hammer ordinary Americans. Mauldin, a financial analyst and the author of ENDGAME: The End Of The Debt Supercycle And How It Changes Everything, thinks that the the…

A former Buddhist novice has burned herself to death in an apparent act of devotion to a monk who also committed self-immolation last year to protest a Korean flood control project, according to Stephen Hong reporting for the internet Buddhist Channel. The body of the woman, who was in her 40s and only identified by…

“I propose that it is high time for the electorate to reject anyone who is strenuously devout,” writes David Barash in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s on-line blog “Brainstorm.” His proposed ban would include any candidate who is a”Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelical, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Shinto, Wiccan, or committed fundamentalist practitioner of any other faith…

Editor’s Note: For 14 Sundays in a row, police have forcibly detained any members of the 1,000-member Shouwang Church in Beijing who show up at an outdoor meeting place. The church’s leadership is under house address. Many members have lost their jobs, been evicted from their homes and forced to leave the Beijing area —…

When a 60-year-old grandfather woke up Sunday inside an undertaker’s refrigerator, he began yelling in protest. Two mortuary attendants ran out of the building in South Africa, convinced he was a ghost. The asthmatic man, whose name has been withheld, lost consciousness while asleep at his home in a rural village near Libode in the Transkei region, according to health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.…

“Men of all ages, races, religions, and backgrounds do it,” writes Newsweek. “Rich men do it, and poor men do it, in forms so varied and ubiquitous that they can be summoned at a moment’s notice.” The topic is sex for money. Researchers looking at the sex industry in a Newsweek study found that “buying sex…

The shells bobbed in the surf, not far from clay bowls, rotting limes and waterlogged rags that had washed back ashore, flotsam from previous Hindu ceremonies to mark festivals, births, deaths and everything in between. However, the location was not India’s Ganges River. It was Queens, New York. As the Hindu population has grown in…

Attorney Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, says he will seek $50 million in damages from MSNBC and commentator Rachel Maddow on behalf of rock singer Bradlee Deans. The suit, which Klayman says will be filed in the District of Columbia’s Superior Court, will allege that former rock singer Bradlee Deen was targeted…

Religion, tradition or health didn’t even come up Thursday as a judge tossed San Francisco’s proposed circumcision ban off the November ballot. Instead, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta M. Giorgi ruled that state law specifically bars local government from dictating practices to health care professionals. The judge confirmed an earlier ruling in favor of San Francisco’s Jewish Community Relations Council, which…
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