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February 21, 2015
Since the Catholic Church Won’t Do It, Let’s Help These Nuns Living in a Freezing Church Because Their Boilers Died
What a depressing story about a group of selfless nuns:
The small group of nuns who work and live in the Fraternite Notre Dame on the city’s West Side have dedicated their lives to helping families, children, and people who are terminally ill — but now they are the ones in need of help.
During the year’s worst cold snap, both of the church’s massive boilers weren’t working, leaving the women trying to survive without heat in the record-breaking subzero temperatures.
For those of you not living i...
Group of Norway Muslims Pledges To Protect Oslo’s Only Synagogue
*** UPDATE, Saturdayevening *** More than a thousand Muslims participated in the event.
“There are many more peace mongers than warmongers,” said one of the organizers,Zeeshan Abdullah. “There’s still hope for humanity, for peace and love, across religious differences and backgrounds.”
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Today, a loose-knit group of Muslims in Norway isdoing something pretty damn cool.Participants will be forming
… a protective ring around Oslo’s synagogue following Sabbath services this w...
Happy Tenth Blogiversary to Atheist Revolution
Jack Vance, who runs the Atheist Revolution blog, just celebrated 10 years of blogging — which is about 9 years and 11 months more than most people can keep it up.
He’s always been a calm voice of reason and criticism and his reflection on how he’s changed over the past decade is worth a read. This part definitely resonated with me:
It did not take me long to discover that there was an audience for this sort of thing. Even though I spent at least the first year writing primarily for myself, it...
February 20, 2015
Secular Coalition for America Announces 2015 Lobby Day
The Secular Coalition for America has announced the date for its 2015 Lobby Day & Secular Summit: April 30. Last year’s event featured actual in-person addresses by actual officeholders Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), Rep. Robert Scott (D-VA), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
And none of them were politically punished for doing so. Success!
The tentative schedule is online now and registration is open. The early bird discount lasts through Feb. 28.
Whistleblowing Employee Wins Appeal Against Proselytizing Judge
If you listen to the Christian far right, Dearborn (Michigan) is a terrifying Islamic haven within our borders, governed by Sharia Law and ruled by extremists. It would not be unexpected, if such a thing were true, to hear of a judge who essentially proselytized from the bench, and fired the employee who blew the whistle on his illegal actions.
As it happens, there is a judge in Dearborn who did just that. But he isn’t Muslim — which probably explains why all the people who are worried about a...
An Inside Look at Jesus’ Marketing Team
In a brilliant promotional campaign for their own production company, Montreal-based 1ONE explains how they could help take the “miracles” of Jesus to a whole new level:
Who knew Jesus was just the David Blaine of his time?
(via Sploid)
Jesus Has Been Weeping Bitter Tears Since the Election of an Atheist Prime Minister in Greece
A Jesus-on-the-cross icon in Greece seems to have been perspiringanas-yet-unidentifiedliquid for the last three weeks, something the country’s faithful are taking as a sign that God is distraughtabout the leftist government of Alexis Tsipras, the new prime minister, who is an atheist.
A religious icon of Jesus Christ in a small village in Greece has been “weeping” ever since the anti-austerity party Syriza won the Greek elections at the end of January, witnesses say.
According to Corinth TV and...
When It Comes to Academy Award Acceptance Speeches, a Lot of People Get Thanked More Than God
The website Vocativ analyzed every Oscar acceptance speech archived on the Academy Award website — all 1,396 of them — to find out who has been thanked more than anyone else.
God didn’t even finish in the top 5.
Here’s the list of name-drops:
5) Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) with 22
4) George Lucas (Star Wars) with 23
3) James Cameron (Titanic) with 28
2) Harvey Weinstein (producer) with 34
1) Steven Spielberg (E.T., Schindler’s List) with 42
God finished sixth with 19 mentions. Maybe one of...
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