With apologies, but this has got to be a contender for Weirdness of the Month: Four men from Bergholz, Ohio, were arrested this week suspected of an Amish beard-cutting attack. Authorities say a rival Amish group held their victims down against their will and gave them unwanted cuts to their […]

So after a lot of posturing and hand-wringing, he’s finally done it. Florida Pastor Terry Jones has burned that Koran. And he had the cameras on hand to record it. Ironically it comes at the same time as a judge in Tampa has ordered sharia law, not US law, to […]

Ireland may be regretting its slavish capitulation to all things European tonight after the European Court once again enthusiastically meddled matters that should only be decided by national parliaments: Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion violates pregnant women’s right to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human […]

It’s sort of Catholicism meets the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Guy Consolmagno, curator of the Pope’s meteorite collection (eh?) and a trained astronomer and planetary scientist, says in the Guardian that he would be ‘delighted’ if intelligent life was found among the stars. ‘But the odds of us […]

In November 2008, the Stockholm County Court overruled a decision by Sweden’s Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet) and actually allowed the registration of the Madonna of Orgasm church as an official religion. However it wasn’t to be. Yesterday the final polka in this dance of mind-numbing stupidity happened, and it didn’t […]

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a US-taxpayer funded organisation (to the tune of 20% of its annual operating revenue from Federal sources and 25% to 29% from State and local taxes), is required by charter to have a “strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series […]

TheEye is recovering from a weekend of work by builders and decorators (mostly just raiding the coffee supplies it seemed), and so has been off the radar – largely banished to the rooftop patio with weak wireless signal and a laptop with a sticky “c” key. Nevertheless, the time was […]

In a clear sign that the lunatics are taking over the asylum, we hear that militant atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio are offering pornography to any student who turns in a Bible. Calling it a “smut for smut” trade, they say they’re trying to make some […]

Can someone tell me what is the POINT of Druid Williams aka The Archbishop of Canterbury? I see that this bearded fool has issued a “profound apology” to the lesbian and gay Christian community today. Why? It’s not HIS job to go around apologising to whichever sexual interest grouping he […]

The Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden has come down in favour of church weddings for homosexuals in a vote held on Thursday morning. Full article in TheLocal. The decision, which is based on a proposal from the church’s governing board, means that the Church of Sweden will conduct […]