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Faith Alive

1. Iranian web programmer faces execution on porn charges.

2. Bless me, Steve Jobs, for I have sinned.

3. Bill O’Reilly proves the existence of God. Read the rest of this entry »

Holy crap, is this the most casually homophobic article you’ve ever read or what?

When I read this piece by Ian O’Doherty yesterday morning, I shrugged my shoulders and just kinda assumed someone else would kick up a fuss about it. But that didn’t happen. Now I’m no fan of outrage, but last year Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir was widely pilloried for a column she wrote following the death of Stephen Gately. And truthfully, that article contained little more than a few massive logical non-sequiturs and some spiteful innuendo.

On Tuesday – coincidentally, the morning after RTE’s acclaimed Growing Up Gay documentary was screened – a columnist in our biggest selling daily newspaper branded gays “sexual deviants”, and clearly equated homosexuality with paedophilia and bestiality. Read the article after the jump. It’s about a thousand times more ignorant and offensive than anything Jan Moir wrote. Yet no one seems to have batted an eyelid: Read the rest of this entry »

PEOPLE DON’T DO WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN, THEY JUST DO WHAT’S MOST CONVENIENT AND THEN THEY REPENT

Just got around to reading the Murphy Report this morning. I kind of hate the idea of being swept up in any wave of popular hysteria, so I left off reading it until tempers had calmed somewhat. It got me to thinking about how those of us fortunate enough to be neither abused nor abuser (or Twenty Major) in this scenario should react to the report’s findings. Read the rest of this entry »

FAITH ALIVE

1. Yeah, I’d have a few ideas where they could put that thing… Papal envoy denies showing contempt for inquiry.

2. Knock pilgrim reports serious retina damage resulted from staring directly into sun, seeks counsel from man who advocated staring directly into the sun… Read the rest of this entry »

MISCELLANEOUS AMUSING ITEMS I’VE COME ACROSS#3

Like a lot of people from Catholic backgrounds, I have a lingering fascination with the religion’s, shall we say, oddball fringe. This is a window display from a shop I pass every day. I took this picture a few weeks ago and, while it’s kinda weird and all, there isn’t much in it for a true aficionado to really sink his teeth into.

Walking past today, however, I was wildly excited to see this… Read the rest of this entry »