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Please pass along the viral marketing. I got mine with packet of “Becel” bought at a supermarket. It was quite refreshing to say the least to find something meaningful besides all that soulless advertising you always get with commercial products. Exciting times. I might print a few of these and disseminate them covertly as […]

How Scientology Infiltrated Britain’s Schools

Vitamins and saunas … don’t forget your medical tricorder.

Devotees of the Church of Scientology have gained access to thousands of British children through a charity that visits schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs. A Sunday Times investigation has found that Marlborough College is one of more than 500 schools across Britain where the […]

The New Atheism

Wired: Battle of the New Atheism

“There’s an infinite number of things that we can’t disprove,” he said. “You might say that because science can explain just about everything but not quite, it’s wrong to say therefore we don’t need God. It is also, I suppose, wrong to say we don’t need the Flying Spaghetti Monster, […]

Scientology ‘Dead Agent’ Approach

Goons from the “Church of Scientology” is once again at it, threatening Andreas Heldal-Lund, freedom fighter and proprietor of Xenu.net / Operation Clambake.

The cult continues to Dead Agent me to my employer. They have now reached a new low by making actual accusations of illegal activities. Below are two quotes from an anonymous letter sent […]

Genital Mutilation

News is slow this time of year, but here is nevertheless an insightful piece of hypocrisy. The first case of Female Genital Mutilation was tried in a Swedish court, resulting in massive fines and four years in prison for the parent in question. So far so good. FGM is notoriously inappropriate. But wait, why is […]

Call of COS

A UK reporter for The Independent goes “undercover” to find out how the Church of Scientology could work out for her. The report reads a little like a short story by H.P Lovecraft. Reporter said she “rarely felt more fearful for [her] sanity.”
In other news, a Swedish reporter finally gave Scientology pretty boy Tom Cruise […]

Atheists, a distrusted minority

According to a recent study, Americans are more wary of atheists than they are of Muslims, Jews and homosexuals. Can I claim persecution now, can I? Anti-atheism?
Interestingly, the respondents associated atheism with “criminal behavior”, “rampant materialism” and “cultural elitism.” Because obviously, materialism, crime and etnocentrism are phenomena that are foreign to predominantly Christian America. America […]

Lourdes Needs Miracle

Sploid notes that the ignorance and superstition capital of the world, Lourdes, needs a “miracle lite” category since miracles have been scarce since … well, ever. Six million people still visit Lourdes every year in a stunning display of backwardness.
And now, the late Pope John Paul II is also in desperate need of miracles. Anyone?

America, not intelligent by design

Three fresh polls reveal some startling information about the religious outlook of the American people and how faith is unhealthily mixed with secular matters and confused with proto-ideas about democracy. I think we all knew it was bad, but not quite this bad.

Today there have been three different polls from Zogby, Gallup and Harris, respectively, […]

The Mohammed Dilemma

Wikipedia - Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
The corporate media has been all too expedient when it comes to jumping on this bandwagon in order to show how radical and perplexing Islam is and what an apparent danger it poses to “the west” and our supposedly “liberal” values of “democracy.” Not that some people haven’t been busy […]





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