Archive for the ‘Catholic Censorship’ Category

Film banned for blasphemy to be released after two decades The only film ever banned in Britain for being blasphemous is to be released   in its original, uncut form after more than two decades. In, 1996, Nigel Wingrove, the director, took the case to the European Court of Human Rights arguing that the ban violated [...]

The Catholicization of the American Right Howard Schweber Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison In the past two decades, the American religious Right has become increasingly Catholic. I mean that both literally and metaphorically. Literally, Catholic writers have emerged as intellectual leaders of the religious right in universities, the punditocracy, the press, and the courts, promoting an [...]

Rick Santorum: ‘Science Should Get Out of Politics’ The Republican Party’s total war on science Rick Santorum is infamous as one of the most determined religious fanatics in US politics, an activist who believes Christian [he's Catholic] creationism should be taught to all American children in science classes, and a persistent Republican advocate for injecting [...]

As Catholic theocon fascists ally with Xtian and Jewish extremists to instigate oppressive neo-blasphemy laws throughout the world, with cruel and karmic irony, the same religionists have become victims of blasphemy laws themselves! This, demonstrated by the woeful tale of a Roman Catholic woman Aasia Bibi, sentenced to death on the mere whiff of so-called [...]

Ireland’s atheists test blasphemy law Henry McDonald, Dublin January 3, 2010 SECULAR campaigners in the Republic of Ireland defied a strict new blasphemy law that came into force on New Year’s Day by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations online and promising to fight the legislation in court. The law, which was passed in July, [...]