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Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins | World news | guardian.co.uk
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The event, which happens every five years, began with decapitation of thousands of buffalo, killed in honour of Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power.
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The festivities included a ferris wheel, fortune-telling robots and stalls blaring music and offering tea and sugary snacks.
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Sabbath protest in Jerusalem -- latimes.com
Article summary: "About 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday outside an Intel plant in Jerusalem to protest its operating on the Jewish Sabbath, an action they view as a desecration of the sanctity of the holy city." Hard to imagine a more vivid metaphor fo the clash of "old" versus "new" sensibilities (though putting it that way suggests that haredism is "old," when actually it's pretty modern).
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: "That is not racism" - GOP chair Michael Steele
CaféPress merchandise emblazoned with "Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8"
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59 Bishops Contributed Financially to Maine Bishop's Effort to Oppose Maine Same-Sex "Marriage" Law
Remarkable. I do find it pretty nauseating that they talk about how much they've "suffered" for the cause of "doing battle with same-sex 'marriage' advocates." (Note the quotation marks around "marriage.") I have a hard time mustering up too much sympathy for that kind of "suffering."
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Malone said that he was grateful for his fellow Catholic bishops "prayer, encouragement, and financial support" and sharing the suffering that now comes with the territory of doing battle with same-sex "marriage" advocates.
The Associated Press: AP Exclusive: Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban
Like the man says, "this could have far-reaching implications."
Report: Homosexuality no factor in abusive priests - Yahoo! News
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But the authors said that their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.
Zazzle merchandise emblazoned with "Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8"
Here's the Psalm that the inscription refers to: "May his days be few; may another seize his position. May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow." (Ps. 109.8f., NRSV).
In hand sanitizer we trust - The Globe and Mail
A roundup of some changes made to ritual and liturgy in Montréal, Toronto, and elsewhere in Canada as strategies of counteracting the spread of the flu. The piece has a slightly puffy, amused tone, but I think this is pretty interesting, especially for what it implies about the value of ritual and community as opposed to discourse and information (e.g., if the epidemic gets worse, expect churches to tell everyone to stay home and get their sermons via podcast).
Boris Kachka, "Why Author Mary Karr Struggled Writing Her Third Memoir 'Lit'," New York Magazine (Nov. 8, 2009)
Now here's a bon mot: "Minoring in religious studies and thinking you know about religion is like watching porn, reading gynecology textbooks, and thinking you know something about pussy." Mary Karr, quoted in this piece.
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