Northman's Fury

It's really hard to know what to say about this. Granted Scientologists tend to have a poor sense of humour, and maybe the whole thing really is just a big scam to make money, but I could say the same about most Evangelicals and their mega-churches and televangilists and so forth. It seems it has as much right to call itself a religion as most, and while I don't ascribe to any faith, I don't like seeing any being treated unfairly, regardless how looney they sound.

On the bright side, any of those who believe that the West is under threat because of the permissiveness of multiculturalism will be happy to know official intolerance of minority beliefs is still alive and well.

that make it really difficult to be tolerant.

Britain's knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie contributes to insulting Islam and may lead to terrorism, a Pakistani minister has said.

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"If someone commits suicide bombing to protect the honour of the Prophet Mohammad, his act is justified," he said, according to the translation by the Reuters news agency.

I'm sure that comment will prove immensely helpful to people's view of Muslims, not that he's alone in making stupid comments:

Pope Benedict XVI told Latin American bishops in Brazil that American Indians had been "silently longing" to become Christians 500 years ago.

. . . the comments had even been criticised by the Catholic Church's Indian advocacy group in Brazil, which described the Pope's statement as wrong and indefensible.

That guy just makes friends wherever he goes, doesn't he? Of course, these folks probably love him.

I suppose I'll throw these guys in just to complete the triumvirate in one post. What a world.

It was kind of fun to make fun of the creationist loonies down in Kentucky. Feeds into that whole illiterate hillbilly stereotype, I suppose. It’s a lot harder to take when they crop up in my own home province, though.

The Big Valley Creation Science Museum, located in a village northeast of Calgary, sets out to show that the earth was created by God in six days about 6,000 years ago.

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The Big Valley museum offers "a scientific and biblically based alternative to the evolutionary view of earth history as presented by the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller," according to its website.

The Royal Tyrrell Museum, a popular museum known for its collection of dinosaur fossils, is only 60 km away.

These are the kind of nuts who drove me away from what is now the Conservative Party. The inability to accept scientific evidence doesn’t bode well for your ability to make rational policy decisions. On the other hand, it probably explains why Alberta is the only place in Canada where Bush is viewed favourably.

I guess with Falwell dead, someone had to pick up the crazy:

A senior Polish official has ordered psychologists to investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle.

The spokesperson for children's rights in Poland, Ewa Sowinska, singled out Tinky Winky, the purple character with a triangular aerial on his head.