The Pope has told a gathering in Rome that Hell is real and a place where sinners do really burn in everlasting fire.
Hell “really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more”.
He doesn’t say where we can find this place, but presumably it is somewhere beneath the “real” flat earth.
What […]
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Richard Dawkins with a brilliant response to the question “What if you’re wrong?” posed by a christian audience member. In his reply Dawkins highlights the fact that a person’s religious beliefs are primarily dictated by where they grow up rather than being based on any fundamental “divine truth”.
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2006 Person of the Year: You Richard Dawkins
The 2006 person of the year is Richard Dawkins according to readers of Crawley’s BBC blog and I tend to agree.
Dawkins is the author of the bestselling book “The God Delusion”, if you haven’t read it yet put it on your list, I highly recommend it. Some of […]
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25% of Americans believe that Jesus will return to Earth in 2007, according to a poll conducted by Ipsos last month. 60% think that the US will suffer another terrorist attack this year and 1 in 3 predict that the military draft will be reinstated.
It’s time to load up the 25% into the “B” ark […]
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This really pisses me off, the Grand Canyon Park Service is not allowed to comment on the age of the Grand Canyon as doing so may hurt the feelings of dickheads Creationists who claim that the Canyon was formed by Noah’s flood.
A Creationist publication making this claim is still on sale at the park more […]
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How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? This map shows a brief history of the world’s most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!
It’s […]
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Cardinal Bertone has again fuelled speculation that the Vatican may one day have a football team of their own.
“I do not preclude the possibility that the Vatican, in the future, could put together a football team of great value, that could play on the same level as Roma, Inter Milan and Sampdoria,” said Cardinal Bertone […]
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Two Jedi Knights petitioned the United Nations last week to officially recognise “Jedi” as a religion. The Jedi’s known as Umada and Yunyun delivered the following protest letter to the UN:
“To whom it may concern,
For the last ten years the United Nations has marked today as the International Day of Tolerance.
While we support this important […]
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