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Expelled promoters lie?Who woulda thought?
2008-04-06 19:37:00 John M. Lynch of Science Blogs blog Stranger Fruit was sent an email from the promoters of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed telling him that a local pre-screening of the crocumentary had been canceled. It was not canceled. Interestingly, the email about the “cancelation” was sent to only 29% of those who received the initial invitation, with ... More About: Intelligent Design , Atheism , Religion , Evolution
Rupert Sheldrake stabbed
2008-04-06 18:59:00 Rupert Sheldrake, researcher and proponent of parapsychological (or “psy”) phenomena such as telepathy was non-fatally stabbed in the leg at a speaking appearance in Japan by a possibly schizophrenic attendee who was apparently displeased with some of Sheldrake’s expressed views. Sheldrake is well known for parapsychology books such as “The Sense of Being Stared At”. Hat Tip: ...
An electrifying video on Atheist statistics
2008-04-06 18:34:00 Atheism is on the rise, atheists are disproportionately educated and intelligent, and are underrepresented in prisons, divorce statistics, and a wide variety of social ills. For more, watch this extremely well-made video. (Click here if video is not working for you) Hat Tip: Friendly Atheist More About: Video , Atheism , Religion , Statistics
Plagiarizing an anti-plagiarism honour code. IIIIronyyyy!
2008-04-06 18:20:00 Ed Brayton just gave me a nice Sunday afternoon chuckle: “The University of Texas, San Antonio appointed a student committee to write an honor code prohibiting plagiarism at the university. The committee decides instead to just copy the honor code from BYU. Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?” More About: Code , Plagiarism , Anti
Prayer: How to do nothing and still think you?re helping
2008-04-06 17:13:00 This post is dedicated to every religionist who: Responds to hearing of hard times of others with prayer, rather than actually doing something or making a donation when such acts are well within their abilities, and still feels like they have made a meaningful moral act. One would not consider it a moral act to, upon hearing of suffering, ... More About: Prayer
Prof Christopher DiCarlo wins TVO?s Best Lecturer Competition
2008-04-06 07:50:00 Professor/Dr. Christopher DiCarlo of Oshawa, Ontario’s University of Ontario Institute of Technology has been voted the winner of this year’s TV Ontario Best Lecturer Competition . DiCarlo is best known as an outspoken nontheist, a proficient debater against theism, and as a promoter, teacher and author on the topic of critical thinking. Interesting tidbit: DiCarlo once ... More About: Atheism , Tool , Prof , Wins
Tory Christman reads her Suppressive Person (SP) Declare
2008-04-06 07:12:00 In these videos, former high-ranking Scientologist of 30 years, Tory (Magoo) Christman, reads her Suppressive Person (SP) Declare. An SP is someone who the Cult of Scientology administration has determined to be an enemy of the cult. They are viewed as evil, antisocial, and/or dangerous. Scientologists are not allowed to speak to them. Fraternizing with ... More About: Religion
Cult of Scientology trying to thwart protest, again
2008-04-06 05:55:00 Prior to the March 15 Ides of March Operation Party Hard protest against the Cult of Scientology , the cult tried to thwart the Clearwater protest by filing an injunction, but failed, twice. Now they have a new strategy. At least the Philadelphia cult franchise does. From Enturbulation: Philadelphia Anons just filed a protest permit with the Managing ... More About: Religion , Protest , Anonymous
The WWE makes fun of Cruise, Holmes, Hubbard, Scientology
2008-04-06 05:34:00 WWE wrestlers make fun of Tom Cruise , Katie Holmes , L Ron Hubbard and Scientology . For more on Scientology, click here. More About: Religion , Sports
This Pope is a GODLESS KILLING MACHINE!
2008-04-06 01:00:00 Do NOT let Stephen Colbert see this photo! Pre-cheezburger’d photo from the Oz Atheist More About: God , Machine , Homosexuality , Pope
Noted Scientology critics report being followed by Scientology Private Inve
2008-04-05 06:34:00 Former OT-7 level Scientologists Tory Christman and author of leading critical website of Scientology Xenu.Net (”Operation Clambake”), Andreas Heldal-Lund, have reported being followed by Scientology Private Investigators hired by the cult’s Office of Special Affairs (OSA), which is essentially Scientology’s own personal mafia - they may or may not go so far as to “whack” ... More About: Report , Critics
Sydney woman deprived of psychiatric meds by Scientologist parents kills fa
2008-04-04 07:20:00 ABC News reports that this past July, a 26-year-old Sydney woman suffering from psychiatric illness attacked her mother, father and sister with a knife, killing the latter two while doing “grievous bodily harm with intent to murder” the former. “The Supreme Court was told mental health will be an issue at the trial, which will start in ... More About: Religion , Australia , Scientology , Morality
Scientology police charges against outed Anon, Sean Carasov, dropped
2008-04-04 06:59:00 From Enturbulation: The cult’s case against Sean is over.For public release and posting at your discretion: To Anon ymous: I have just concluded a telephone call from a Los Angeles Police Department representative assigned to the major crimes division. During that telephone call I was advised that both the Los Angeles District Attorney and the Los Angeles City Attorney had ... More About: Religion , Scientology
OUTSTANDING article on Anonymous and Scientology
2008-04-04 06:36:00 This article, written by Chris Landers and published on CityPaperOnline, is truly a must-read. What one will get out of this article is an indepth overview of the history and current state of Anonymous , and a partial overview of Scientology ’s deplorable past. Landers gives an excellent overview of Anonymous. He discusses its history before the Scientology protests. ... More About: Article , Outstanding
Hypnosis and Mind Control in the Cult of Scientology
2008-04-03 20:34:00 This short video features former high-ranking Scientologists, Robert and Stacy (Brooks) Young, discussing the application of hypnosis and mind control in the Cult of Scientology . The methods are said to be geared at cultivating the ability to control others and be controlled by others. For more posts on Scientology, click here. More About: Religion , Mind , Mind Control
Gonna be in/around Oshawa, ON on Friday afternoon? Go see Tom Flynn
2008-04-03 07:31:00 In addition to speaking at the Centre For Inquiry (Toronto) on Friday evening, Tom Flynn of CFI Transnational will be speaking at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa from 2-4 PM. Flynn will be speaking on his upcoming publication The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. For a complete rundown of the event, click here ... More About: Afternoon , Gonna
Open Letter to Anonymous and Critics of Anonymous
2008-04-03 06:53:00 In a post entitled The Anonymous Group are Juvenile Bigots, Scandalous Candice accuses Anonymous of being, well, juvenile and bigoted, and also says that they should spend their time on more worthy causes (e.g., organized religion as a whole, the Bush Administration, etc.). She also accuses Anonymous of sending an anthrax-lookalike to a Cult of ... More About: Politics , Religion , Culture , Scientology , Open
Great protest strategy & background video re: Cult of Scientology
2008-04-03 04:49:00 This is a great 10-minute video. It focuses primarily on the how of the protest, and also shines light on the why. The quality of the video was very high, and the speaker is intoxicating to listen to. The message is valid, detailed and well-delivered. Very worth watching. Hat Tip: Enturbulation ... More About: Video , Religion , Strategy , Scientology , Cult
Beware of Dogma: Bob Jones University?s Biology for Christian Schools
2008-04-02 16:29:00 Page ONE of Ultra-Christian Bob Jones University ’s Biology for Christian Schools reads: (1) “‘Whatever the Bible says is so; whatever man says may or may not be so,’ is the only [position] a Christian can take . . . .” (2) “If [scientific] conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong, no matter how many ...
700+ protest Cult of Scientology in Moscow
2008-04-02 03:49:00 Interfax reports: More than 700 activists of Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia), a youth group, were joined by students and lecturers of Moscow ’s Bauman State Technological University (MGTU) in a rally on Friday to demand that a Scientologist office located in the vicinity of MGTU be shut down. “Not so long ago, an organization emerged in the vicinity ... More About: Religion , Scientology , Cult , Protest
Tom Flynn in Toronto at Center For Inquiry, this Friday
2008-04-01 04:50:00 Centre for Inquiry’s CELEBRATION OF SCIENCE AND FREETHOUGHT ATHEISTS, HERETICS and UNBELIEVERS have fought at the forefront of every major civil rights movement of that last 300 years, including the Enlightenment, universal suffrage, abolitionism and minority civil rights. As the aggressive ‘New Atheists’ make headlines, the public tends to forget the legacy from which they stem. In celebration we present? TALES FROM ... More About: Toronto , Friday , Center , Flynn
THERE?S XENU!!
2008-03-31 18:00:00 Owned. For more on Scientology , click here. More About: Religion , Xenu
7chan accuses Cult of Scientology of attacking Epilepsy forum
2008-03-30 18:45:00 From 7chan: I would just like to discuss this nasty business about a terrible raid on a forum for the poor people who suffer from epilepsy. What happened there was terrible, and we feel deeply sorry for those affected. Users of this site did not actually attack those individuals. The Church of Scientology posted numerous threads across ... More About: Religion , Cult , Morality , Forum
Do US Scientologists receive tax breaks that no other US religionists recei
2008-03-30 08:19:00 A YouTuber is claiming that due to a secret agreement with the IRS Scientologists , to the exclusion of all other American religionists, receive tax deductions when they enrol their children in Scientology private schools. To read more on Scientology, click here. More About: Politics , Religion , Breaks
Texas Republicans Call for Revocation of Scientology?s Religious Status
2008-03-30 05:27:00 Texas Republicans have called to end the Cult of Scientology ’s status as a legitimate religion eligible for tax-exemption in the state of Texas. The grounds of the resolution are that 1) the cult has no statement of faith; 2) they offer no routinized worship services; and 3) rather than providing “church” services freely and openly, they ... More About: Politics , Religion , Texas
How *NOT* to Protest Scientology. Protesters Understandably Get Followed.
2008-03-30 03:01:00 I just read a blog post entitled Possible Fair Game in Vancouver at the VanCityAnon blog about how the blogger and some his friends got followed around Vancouver after picketing the cult’s Vancouver branch. The protesters were followed and then photographed probably more than halfway across the city from the “church”. And they completely brought it ... More About: Religion , Scientology , Protesters , Protest
Anonymous Boston Scientology Protester Being Fair Game?d, SPREAD THE WORD
2008-03-30 00:50:00 The following is a cut-and-paste from GlossLip: I keep reading more and more stories about members of Anonymous being tracked down, harassed, entrapped and incarcerated at the hands of the Church of Scientology . In some ways, this should come as no surprise based on the vicious and litigious history of the CoS, but in this day and ... More About: Religion , Culture , Boston , Word
Tory Christman on Scientology?s mafia-style distributed organized crime
2008-03-30 00:31:00 For more posts on Scientology , click here. More About: Crime , Style , Mafia , Magoo
Is Mainstream Science Dogmatic? (Repost from December)
2008-03-28 20:12:00 Given that the release of the crocumentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is right around the corner, and that its promotional team is showing the sorts of dogmatism that it is accusing the mainstream scientific community (or, “Big Science ”) of (e.g., by expelling prominent critic, PZ Myers from a screening, attempting to bribe Christian schools to force their ... More About: Intelligent Design , Politics , Religion , Christianity
Wise Beard Man?s EPIC 100th YouTube Video! WIN!
More articles from this author:2008-03-28 19:11:00 To read more posts on Scientology , click here. More About: Video , Religion , Youtube , Anonymous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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