Pope Benedict XVI has said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.
He explained that defending God’s creation was not limited to saving the environment, but also protecting man from self-destruction. Source: The BBC.
No – saving humanity from religion is as important as saving the environment.
The Guardian reports
A teenager is facing prosecution for using the word “cult” to describe the Church of Scientology.
The unnamed youth was served the summons by City of London police when he took part in a peaceful demonstration opposite the London headquarters of the controversial religion.
Officers confiscated a placard with the word “cult” on it from the youth, who is under 18, and a case file has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service.
A date has not yet been set for him to appear in court.
Since when did the City of London Police become defenders of Scientology?
I’ve just visited Rudis Muiznieks’ Cectic for the first time – a collection of well over a hundred of his humours cartoons examining religion.
The outrage at Dr Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments regarding the unavoidable introduction of Sharia law into the British legal system continues days later. However, I think we should thank the Archbishop for his comments as he’s inadvertently made sure that there’s no way that Sharia law will be introduced into our legal system in the foreseeable future. Thank Williams I say.
15th century illustration in a copy of a manuscript by reports that Wikipedia the multilingual, web-based free encyclopaedia has become subject of an online petition of Muslims requesting the removal of illustrations of Muhammad. The petition has collected nearly 120,000 signatures since 4th Dec 2007 through The Petition Site, although many people remain anonymous. Wikipedia responds
Wikipedia recognizes that there are cultural traditions among some Muslim groups that prohibit depictions of Muhammad and other prophets and that some Muslims are offended when those traditions are violated. However, the prohibitions are not universal among Muslim communities, particularly with the Shi’a who, while prohibiting the images, are less strict about it. Since Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia with the goal of representing all topics from a neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group. So long as they are relevant to the article and do not violate any of Wikipedia’s existing policies, nor the law of the U.S. state of Florida, where Wikipedia’s servers are hosted, no content or images will be removed from Wikipedia because people find them objectionable or offensive.
I wonder how much pressure Wikipedia can stand; a petition is just one method of protest. Still it’s all rather odd that the images used such as the one-pictured are centuries old and produced by Muslims.
Look, I find women wearing the burkha distasteful, but I’m not about to stop women wearing it, by the way I find any religious dress distasteful like the Plymouth Brethren’s insistence that women wear head coverings. Why is it always women being victimised?