I feel compelled to write about what would best termed the Vines Religious Wars. Maybe I should call it the Atheist Wars, since most of the incoming is aimed at religion, not just any religion, or all religions for that fact, just two. The two most under siege is Christiani …
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I thought it was a brilliant idea from the beginning,” says Timothy Ferris. Produce a phonograph record containing the sounds and images of humankind and fling it out into the solar system.By the 1970s, astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake already had some experience wi …
I was reading about the Hawaiian Culture and History this morning and found this paragraph in Wikipedia: “Pele belief continued after the old religion was officially abolished in 1819. In the summer of 1823 English missionary William Ellis toured the island to de …
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There is a proposed Mosque to be built on land in Brookfield, and some people are bat crazy about the idea. The local newspaper Journal Sentinel had to shut down the comments section for this news story because of the huge amount of racist, divisive and ugly comments being poste …
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Prague-born Ragachova, 37, moved to Israel a decade ago, and in 2004 converted to Judaism in the Bnei Brak rabbinic court of Nissim Karelitz, one of the world’s best-respected and most stringent Haredi rabbis. Karelitz was so moved by the genuineness of her commitment to Ju …
The eight, yes eight, UN observers in Syria are giving Bashar al Assad fits. They are visiting places he does not want them to go, or see. The shelling in Homs came to a halt over the weekend when two UN observers decided to stay in the beleaguered city. Assad didn't expect …
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I attended Church with my siblings and mother regularly until I reached the age of 16. As a very young child attending Sunday school and hearing about how Jesus loves us all then transitioning into how Jesus only loves a few left me with many questions about how this whole dynam …
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Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock pistol tucked in his waistband, hefting bags of donated rice and warning darkly of a worsening humanitarian crisis.
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The hysterical campaign to stigmatise US Muslims poses a far greater threat than radicalisation to America's civic union
Golan heights is a part of Syrian territory that has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 war with Syria. The land was never returned back to Syria by Israel despite the world opinion that it is illegal to continue to occupy land that does not belong to a country. Despite the w …
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