Pope Comes To Head on Catholic Abuse Scandals

The NYTimes had a great story on how the Pope is finally stepping up to the plate with allegations that have been brought against the Irish Catholic Church. The allegations in the 700 page Murphy Report claim that "accused church leaders and the police there of covering up decades of child sexual abuse by priests in Dublin." I really think this is a great step towards repairing Catholic interest in an area that still has religious turmoil, in this case Protestant vs Catholicism. Ireland is already an area where the lines of separation of church and state are hard to distinguish, but at least soothing over the woes of the countries major religion could help restore the balance.

Still Bad News For Jobs

It seems that the stimulus bill still hasn't had the effect it was predicted to have. Whats even worse is employers are sitting on jobs. No wonder employments rates are just sitting at 10% and wont budge.

Creationism and Schools

New York Times had this great article on a man whose under fire for teaching creationism and pushing a religious based agenda in his classroom. The teacher in question, John Freshwater, has been accused of burning crosses on arms and teaching creationism, something which we can assume is banned from the curriculum. In his defense, "he said he had been a target for removal since 2003, when he proposed that the school board adopt a policy to teach evolution as theory, not proven scientific fact". This is understandably a very touchy issue to tread on for both Christians and those no affiliated in the church. In his defense, evolution is a theory, nothing more, but against him, technically creationism is as well. While people on both sides believe these to be true, they are just theories, not fact. But bringing this argument to a scale like this isn't the greatest way to debate the subject.

Ragging on Palin pt 2...

Its seems the White House even decided to make fun of her. I feel bad for the poor woman, but at the same time, she set her self up for stuff like this. But either way...its still funny.

Mental Health Break...ATTACK!

Wish i could see these at the games I go to....

Preaching Love...But Only For Some?

In a New York Times Op-Ed Column by Eric Lax, he points out an interesting contradiction that the church has been preaching over the years. To put it into context, the whole jist of the New Testament in the Bible is simple, God Is Love. Above all else, this is the main theme. Yet, as Eric Fox points out, the church views "if two members of the same sex engage in long, committed and faithful love; God may be love, but this love is ungodly." Time out! As a Christian myself, and at that a young one, even I understand how wrong this is. To say God Is Love, the crux of your religion, can be overshadowed by something as trivial as being gay, is just completely beyond me. The church continue to alienate itself from the mainstream, and while that can be good in some cases, to continue to bring more followers in, you need to check yourself when it comes to stuff like this.