A columnist at HuffPo actually dares to transgress against the pieties of the Left. A rare moment of non-groupthink. Read more

Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming. Miraculously, the baby survived. God have mercy on their souls. Read more

…for all those Whig Natural Historians who have such terrific Just So stories about How the Christian Got his Cross and all the other tales which explain how religion is an evolutionary dead end and everything has Always Been Leading Up to Atheism: Nellie bar the door indeed. I love how these ‘Just So’ stories always just so happen to flatter the person telling it. Just for the sake of contrast, I’d like to see an evolutionary sociobiologist say something... Read more

A combox reader gets on the CNN Bandwagon of Infallible Evolutionary SCIENCE!: RELIGION AS PARANOIA: A DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THESIS SETTING: Back in Ye Olde Evolutionary Times*, Reproductive Competitors Bob and Joe forage for food… -rustling sound- Joe: “Hey, Bob; did you hear that? That noise is probably caused by an Unmoved Mover or Supreme Being* moving through the garden in the cool of the day; we’d better run for it!” Bob: “Nah, Joe, the calculable odds are that its a... Read more

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. – Al Gore, Lunatic See, I have Jesus to take care of this. Read more

…the 2010 Arts and Faith Top 100 Films! Read more

A reader writes: I need plenty more belief, plenty more power of prayer and more Holy Ghost with me. Please pray also that God gives me gifts of God’s grade. Lord, hear our prayer! Read more

The Abortion Monologues. More Theatre for Generation Narcissus in which we get to hear somebody say, “What about Me? What about MY Needs?” for an hour and half. It’s a monologue because it can’t be a dialogue when the other partner in the conversation has been torn limb from limb and tossed in a dumpster. Read more

I was asked a while back, where does the triple blessing before the reading of the Holy Gospel come from, its source? Not what we pray as we make the signs of the Cross, but its history or background.I have asked several people who I thought would know, or even how to find the answer, but no one has been able to find anything.That’s when I decided to ask you.It would be great if you can help! I haven’t the... Read more

in which some science writer at CNN plumps firmly to be counted among those who worship the intellect as distinct from those who use it. Turns out the origin and essense of religion is paranoia. Who knew? Well, I suppose you *all* knew–and you weren’t tell me because you are all plotting against me! The invaluable Mike Flynn, whose novels you really should be reading, responds out of his training a statistician (which involves actually using the intellect and not... Read more