With a certain divine comic flair, Roman Catholic bishops declared this week that the dying are being given too much sedation. By overmedicating the terminally ill, they say, we remove from them the opportunity for a “good death”.
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The Self Taught <b>Atheist</b>: <b>Atheism</b> Is Not A Belief …
India has never been short of religions: although 80 per cent Hindu, it also incorporates Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism as well as hundreds of lesser known faiths.
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Ravidassia sect sends shockwaves across world’s Sikh community (Times Online)
Friends of mine described the experience of seeing Avatar in gushing terms. “It was like seeing Star Wars for the first time,” one drooled. I am still jealous
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Your Turn: I’d like to thank video games (Sydney Morning Herald)
Courtesy of Lon Hatamiya Jon Hatamiya, shown playing last year, sat in with the Dave Matthews Band. Twenty-year-old Taylor Swift, as it turns out, was not the youngest performer to experience a career highlight at Sunday’s Grammy Awards
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Davis teen slides right in playing trombone at Grammys with Dave Matthews Band
#6 as we’ve covered in detail here on Slog, there are at least two distinct types of atheism . One is a lack of belief in god. The other, which is what this video is presumably about, is an active belief that there is no god.
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Protestant Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province were searching for a place of worship Wednesday, February 3, after angry Muslims apparently attacked their partly constructed church, injuring scores of worshippers. Christians are a minority in Islamic Pakistan and rights investigators say there has been an increase in anti-Christian violence, with at least 130 Christians killed last year.
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Muslim Mob Storms Pakistan Church; 65 Injured
» by Nirmala Carvalho Delegates are met by ultranationalist Hindus. Tomorrow they will travel to conflict-torn Kandhamal. Mgr Cheenath says things will be back to normal only when Christians can live in their homes and pray without fear.
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02/03/2010 16:29 INDIA EU delegation visits persecuted Christians of Orissa (AsiaNews.it)
Randall Stephens The latest issue of National Geographic arrived in my mailbox yesterday. And, behold, it doth have this story on “The Polygamists: A sect that split from the Mormons allows multiple wives, expels ‘lost boys,’ and heeds a jailed prophet.” It’s a well-written, thoughtful piece
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FLDS Cover Story in February National Geographic
Recently Latina Role Model was featured on TikiTiki Blog: stories with cultura, color and sabor, in a post by Carrie Ferguson Weir called Smart Latina vs. Sexy Latina . Carrie asked readers: So, has your Smart Latina run up against the Sexy Latina? What do you see when you watch Maya’s video?
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Latina Women Respond