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Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism

By Andrew Aghapour

…rea has successfully campaigned to remove references to evolution from high-school textbooks. The Society for Textbook Revise (STR) petitioned South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to make these revisions, and ministry allegedly deferred judgment to textbook publishers who yielded to the demands. The petition was just one in a series of public campaigns by the creationist movement in South Korea. In 2008, for example, the Kor…

Is Football a Pro-Life Sport?

By Marian Ronan

…bortion and gay marriage. In the Midwest, local authorities rejected a gay commencement speaker at one Catholic high school graduation and tried to prevent a gay-friendly foundation from awarding a scholarship at another. And Two Jesuit universities resisted pressure to retract invitations to Desmond Tutu and Kathleen Sibelius respectively, also over questions of sexual orthodoxy. The problem with paying all this attention to the Catholic culture…

Modern Mindfulness, Continued: Chade-Meng Tan Follows Up

By The Editors

…friend, which is great, but when having such a discussion, it’s easy to become complacent about the precision and rigor in articulating one’s own thoughts, and that seems to have happened to me. I’d like to clarify three specific points that I made during the interview: 1. I don’t want to give the impression that I believe mindfulness practice has lost contact with the source teachings. In fact, I believe the exact opposite: that mindfulness prac…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…If the incident and accompanying violence has prompted any remorse or soul-searching from the Georgian Orthodox Church, it is not yet evident. Far from shying away from the issue, the Church has openly accepted its role in the violence. The priests who organized the counter-demonstration were acting on calls from the Church’s Patriarch that the event be banned by authorities. Footage taken on the day also shows Church members proudly leading the…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…d her on. Once again, anyway, the hype paid off. All 900 seats in the brand*]}*-new, ten-story-high Leighton Concert Hall sold out within hours. And in the Atheist Corner… The look of the debate itself was typical, if understated. (Compare this, for instance, with a recent Craig debate in Mexico, where the podium was in the middle of a boxing ring.) The debaters sat onstage at a table with the moderator between them—Michael Rea, who heads Notre Dame’s…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…advocating building the military and a muscular foreign policy; supporting free-market economics including deregulation, privatization and tax cuts for the wealthy, and getting aboard the so-called family-values bandwagon. Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., son of the late Jerry Falwell, recognized that Weyrich had been “a pioneer of the religious right and the Reagan revolution.” “He was one of the first to recognize that a coalitio…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…money, and the meaning of life. –The Eds. Also on The Cubit: Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing Follow The Cubit, RD‘s religion-and-science portal, @TheCubit…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…with a man high up on a light pole, waving a home made banner of the earth-as-womb, a fetus resting inside. He was in front of the Grand Palais, an enormous glass roofed building constructed for the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition, where we were trying to see opening day—mistake! You’d think New Yorkers would know this!—of an exhibit called Solutions COP21. His ruggedness and raggedness–the flag had seen more than one demonstration—paled next to…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…s Right groups, has been looking to globalize his influence by helping anti-equality activists from Mexico to Taiwan. Burma: Annual religious festival turns rural town into country’s ‘unofficial gay village’ At the Independent, Gemma Taylor reports on the Taung Pyone Spirit Festival. “Homosexuality is illegal in Burma but every August LGBT groups rally for a religious event,” says the Independent, saying that every year “a small rural village outs…

Is the Satanist Behind 10 Commandments Challenge Sincere?

By Joseph Laycock

…not belief. No one would question whether Judaism is a religion.” Greaves feels that a community centered around Satan—not as a literal entity but a potent metaphor for values that he holds sacred—is more than just a philosophy and should enjoy the same Constitutional protections afforded to religion. If the Satanic Temple’s campaign has any traction it will force a public discussion not simply on the Constitutional issues surrounding religion, b…