“We warn you to leave your job as a teacher or we will cut off the heads of your children and set fire to your daughter.”… Read the rest
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Look out, the “new” atheists are attacking 
Jul 17th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The members of the Clergy Letter project have been ‘relentlessly attacked by “New Atheists.”‘… Read the rest
The creationism problem in US education
Jul 17th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
47% of high school science teachers believe in ID; only 28% believe in god-free evolution.… Read the rest
Yet another “new atheists are evangelical” bore
Jul 16th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Evangelistic, zealous, fundamentalism, sole possession of truth, lack of tolerance, simplistic reductionism.… Read the rest
Vatican tool tries to defend its warped morality
Jul 16th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
About the concern that child rape is equated with ordination of women, he said they are not on the same level.… Read the rest
Norms Addressing “Gravioribus Delictis”
Jul 16th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The more grave delict of the attempted sacred ordination of a woman is also reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.… Read the rest
Polanski and the bishop of Bruges
Jul 16th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Both raped children, both enjoy a measure of freedom.… Read the rest
Catholic women notice misogyny of Vatican
Jul 16th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Vatican tool said the idea was to codify the most serious canonical crimes the Roman Catholic Church handles.… Read the rest
Vatican raises ordination of women to “grave crime”
Jul 16th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Treating women as equals is officially as sinful as raping children.… Read the rest
Seeing disagreement as “relentless attacks”
Jul 16th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Just one of the ploys of the marginalizers of atheism.… Read the rest
Theist says why he’s so much better than Hitchens
Jul 15th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s because he is so loving.… Read the rest
More clerical passive-aggression for Hitchens
Jul 15th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He’s clever but wicked, we’re good, so we will pray for him.… Read the rest
Muslim apostate found hanged
Jul 15th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He wrote to a rights organization desperately requesting help with an asylum application.… Read the rest
Rwanda: newspaper editor arrested
Jul 14th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Agnès Uwimana Nkusi, editor of Umurabyo, was detained in connection with publication of stories on “sensitive” subjects.… Read the rest
Besides, Vatican radio causes cancer
Jul 14th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The radio towers interfere with appliances, too. No, really.… Read the rest
UK government replies to no pope petition
Jul 14th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Our relationship with the Holy See enables us to address jointly a range of foreign policy and development issues.… Read the rest
Mark Vernon explains about Polkinghorne
Jul 14th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s complicated. So, “there is a possibility of giving an account of divine action within nature, which is compatible with science.”… Read the rest
Yet another ‘centre for science and religion’
Jul 14th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
This one celebrated god and physics last week for John Polkinghorne’s 80th birthday.… Read the rest
Quetta tense after Habib Jalib Baloch’s killing
Jul 14th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
All educational institutions, including Balochistan University, will remain closed for two days.… Read the rest
Gunmen murder former senator in Balochistan
Jul 14th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Separatist groups in the province have targeted opponents, have also been blamed for killings they deny.… Read the rest
