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Posted inEthics and Morality, Psychology

Persecution: A Tale of Two Muslim Minorities

Reading Time: 6 minutes In talking in my last post about persecution, my call is to try to be nuanced. Sadly, my interlocutor supposedly read the piece and concluded: Nevertheless, we seem very shy about mentioning persecution of Christians in the world here in the West. I don’t think Johno ever actually accepted that it happens. With our liberal, secular worldview, […]

Posted inThe Secular

Global persecution of humanists continues to worsen, new report reveals

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is from Humanists UK: A new report published today by Humanists International has revealed worsening persecution of the non-religious in many parts of the globe. The report, which takes a detailed look at eight countries, finds ‘clear and growing evidence of the targeting of humanist and atheist activists on the basis of their rejection of a […]

Posted inNews

Christian baker Jack Phillips sues over alleged harassment

Reading Time: 2 minutes Phillips, above, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, this week filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission, alleging that it was on a ‘crusade to crush’ him. The lawsuit, according to this report, centres on an incident in which Phillips refused to make a cake for Autumn Scardina, a Denver attorney, who […]

Posted inNews

Canadian law school ruling is a 'blow to religious freedom'

Reading Time: 3 minutes When the Supreme Court in Canada recently ruled that the law societies of Ontario and British Columbia are now permitted to deny Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposed law school accreditation because of its Christian standards of morality, wailing and gnashing of teeth predictably followed. According to this report, Gerald Chipeur, above, the Alliance Defending Freedom […]

Posted inNews

Faith-centred gym shuts down after nixing a gay pride event

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you ‘live, move, and breathe in God’s world’ a warm welcome would have awaited you at CrossFit Infiltrate, an Indianapolis gym. But on June 6 the gym’s Jesus-lovin’ management shut down its premises following a furious backlash that occurred after management cancelled a gay pride event. A note left on the door by the […]

Posted inNews

Oh no, we've been robbed of Trunews by YouTube Nazis!

Reading Time: 2 minutes I was a bit miffed to learn yesterday that YouTube had kicked the Trunews channel, run by evangelist Rick Wiles, above, into the long grass. Why? Because Wiles’s broadcasts are so damned nutty they serve as a warning to viewers that this is what happens when people’s brain’s are running on Jesus. I mean, where […]

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