On the horizon is approaching a religious and cultural furore so contentious, any clash of civilizations may have to wait. On one side, a manuscript titled: The Final Freedoms, against all the gravitas religious tradition can bring to bear. What science and religion thought impossible has now happened. History has its first literal, testable  and fully demonstrable, proof...

If anyone thought the accumulating scandals of pedophile priests shaking the Roman Catholic church, most recently in Sweden, Philadelphia, and new investigations into the Vatican bank, couldn’t get much worse, it just did. The Vatican was recently forced to confirm the sexual abuse and rape of nuns by it’s own priests in 23 different countries. Yet however...

Continuing last Monday’s Musing (http://inewp.com/?p=5268) here are six more areas in which our developing “hard” sciences replaced or marginalized religion in Western cultures (the first four have strong family resemblances): 7. Symbols and metaphors were replaced by scientific literalisms and facts. If scientists had nothing more exact than symbols and metaphors,...

On Friday May 28, prayer congregations at two Ahmadiyya mosques were attacked by grenades, gun-fire and suicide-bombers in Lahore, Pakistan. More than 90 individuals lost their lives and over 100 suffered wounds. Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. Journalists reporting the hour long brutality might have been surprised to know that Ahmadiyya worship places cannot...