Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Steve Rose points out that there is a book that you cannot buy if you live in the UK … …Going Clear is a veritable book of revelations on L Ron Hubbard’s sci-fireligion, exhaustively detailing its history, its methods and the depth of its weirdness. Or so we’re told. While Going Clear goes on sale in … Read more
In December 2011 I was shocked to open the post and discover that I had been served with a Statement of Claim issued by a Canadian court. I was being sued for $3 million, not for something I had personally written, but for an anonymous comment posted by somebody else on my blog. Was this … Read more
Today’s bit of religious insanity comes from a church pastor in Beaverton, Oregon. He is suing a mother and daughter for $500,000 because they gave the church — Beaverton Grace Bible Church — bad reviews online. Yikes!! Apparently the ex-members wrote negative Google reviews on-line, but they mysteriously vanished. One might wonder if God was … Read more