Flying Spaghetti Monster – Touched by his noodly appendage. (Wikipedia) AP, Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster: “”For a lot of people they’re just sort of fun responses to religion, or fun responses to organized religion. But I think it raises real questions about how people approach religion in their lives,” said Samuel Snyder, one [...]
Entries Tagged as 'religion'
Geloof strijdt met wetenschap
November 16th, 2007
Willem van Hoorn, Geloof strijdt met wetenschap “Er is een onoverbrugbaar verschil tussen geloof en vrije wetenschapsbeoefening. Cees Dekker vermengt beide op ontoelaatbare wijze.” Bovenstaande naar aanleiding van Dekker, Stel grenzen aan het gesleutel aan de mens.
Tags: biology · cees dekker · religion · science · willem van hoorn
Bill Moyers: Jonathan Miller
November 12th, 2007
Jonathan Miller geinterviewd door Bill Moyers Bill Moyers interviewt Jonathan Miller naar aanleiding van diens BBC-serie A Rough History of Disbelief uit 2005, binnenkort in de VS door PBS uit te zenden. De 3-delige serie is in fragmenten of integraal ook hier (wederom) te bekijken. Bijzonder de moeite waard.
Tags: atheism · bill moyers · joathan miller · religion · tv · video
The crescent and the cross
November 11th, 2007
Simon Kuper, The crescent and the cross: “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written in the 1890s, possibly by the Russian-French journalist Matthieu Golovinski, and spread by the Tsarist secret police. A forgery, it claimed to be the manual of a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world. Bat Ye’or, author of the little-read [...]
Sir David Attenborough on God
November 10th, 2007
Sir David Attenborough on God
Tags: atheism · david attenborough · evolution · religion · video
Faith and politics. The new wars of religion
November 2nd, 2007
“Faith will unsettle politics everywhere this century; it will do so least when it is separated from the state” The Economist: Faith and politics. The new wars of religion: “Atheists and agnostics hate the fact, but these days religion is an inescapable part of politics.”
Sex and the Renaissance Nun
September 25th, 2007
The Smart Set: Sex and the Renaissance Nun. “Church officials in Venice and Rome turned a blind eye to these activities, but reluctantly investigated some of the most blatant and scandalous cases. The Italian academic Guido Ruggiero has pored over countless documents to find that only 33 convents were prosecuted for “sex crimes against God” [...]
Tags: feminism · history · italy · religion · renaissance · sex · sexuality
Iran keeps Picassos in basement
September 24th, 2007
For a 2005 exhibition, authorities issued an order to remove the central panel of Francis Bacon’s triptych “Two Figures Lying on a Bed With Attendant” because of its purported homosexual overtones. “Ruled by one of the most vehemently anti-Western governments in the world, Iran is, by many assessments, home to the most extensive collection of [...]