James Randi, the legendary skeptic, and his nonprofit group have long been willing to fork over $1,000,000 to anyone who could prove his/her supernatural abilities. The reason for the challenge is to show that paranormal claims are a bunch of %*&# and we shouldn’t be manipulated by psychics/charlatans/John Edward trying to take our money. So far, the people who have taken the challenge (and failed miserably) are random people that you haven’t heard of… the big names in the Psychic… Read more
Life Decisions International, a pro-life group that apparently enjoys sticking its head into events that have nothing to do with abortion whatsoever, is angry with Conan O’Brien. What has he done? The show airing Wednesday night featured Conan introducing “new characters” to the show (characters who never actually appear after the one episode). One of the characters was a “homophobic country western singer.” He was introduced by Conan, who said, “Our last new character’s heart is in the right place,… Read more
The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations, which “ensure[s] that businesses and organizations will be unable to discriminate on the grounds of sexuality,” came into force in Northern Ireland at the beginning of the year. Not even a couple weeks into the year, and already a vote was called for to reject the law. Who would protest equal rights and anti-discrimination policy? Take a wild guess… In fact, many religious groups are protesting the regulations. Here’s gay.com: The Christians seem especially… Read more
I made this post about Left Behind: The Game back in November. Today, I got this response. It deserves its own post… This statement is posted from an employee of Left Behind Games on behalf of Troy Lyndon, our Chief Executive Officer. There has been in incredible amount of MISINFORMATION published in the media and in online blogs here and elsewhere. Pacifist Christians and other groups are taking the game material out of context to support their own causes. There… Read more
Chuck Colson, the former chief counsel to President Nixon who was jailed for his involvement in Watergate, is now working with prison ministries. He also writes a column for the Christian Post. In this week’s column, he writes about what we should do for Religious Freedom Day on January 16, 2007. He states: In too many cases, Christian children in public school classrooms are being forced to act like atheists. After all, that is effectively what is happening when they… Read more
