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We live in a time rendered uninterested and detached by familiarity. Ignoring the marvels that can be plainly found in nature, we turn to superstitions that we think will recover the excitement we had as children, cowering under the bed sheets from monsters that are deterred only by cloth blankets.

*written at the back of a framed picture that i gave *cough bribe *cough to Chatelaine. i stupidly attached the hook at the bottom, hence the "I'd rather see this picture hung upside down." indeed, stupidity can sire productivity. =^.^=

Today's headline article is Gordon Brown's secularist Labour party. There is hope after all! Also check out two interviews about two new books out now - an expose on Evangelicals and a book about God's Brain. On a lighter note: ZOMG 3D BIBLE MOVIE

-Ano ka ba naman anak, tingnan mo nga yang suot mo. --Si Mama talaga, ako na naman ang nakita. -Hay naku Judith, paano ba namang... ---Hindi ka makikita ni Nanay, eh halos makita na ang kaluluwa mo dyan sa suot mo? Mano po, nay. -Kaawaan ka ng Diyos.

We have voodoo, Mexican secularism, WWII, quantum physics (it's your favorite - infinite regression!), Anglicans converting to Roman Catholicism because of their common intolerance for gays, priests who make sense, condom talk, and nuns affected by the economic recession. And Palin says something stupid.

Today is International Women's Day! In addition to the usual links, we have some great articles discussing women fighting for equality and religious reform,women at CERN (Angels and Demons stuff, people!), and an opinion piece about ending maternal deaths. We also have an essay from Christopher Hitchen's brother about his faith and an expose about Scientology.

When observing the complex beauty of the natural world and the diversity of plants and animals and how each species' characteristics seem perfectly tailored for a particular lifestyle, it is not difficult to jump into conclusion that everything was designed.

Today's FF links include a presidential endorsement, discrimination against gays, the Oscars, AI, sex and gay prostitution, and evolution. Same old, same old?

Today's religion, atheism, freethinking news links.