Don’t Abuse Your Kids, Unless . . .
Date: June 30, 2009 | Author: Rebecca WatsonCategory: New Age, Religion/Faith, Science and Medicine | Comments: 1 »
How would you end that sentence? Is there ever a circumstance in which it is okay to abuse your children? I’m not referring to the debate over spanking—I’m talking about laws that are currently enacted in certain states that allow parents to physically abuse and murder their children because of a specific circumstance: religion.
This AP article explores the challenges that face courts trying cases involving parents who neglect their children’s health and well-being because of religious beliefs. Many states have exemptions for these parents that absolve them of their sins because they once read a book that said thinking really hard in an upward direction would cure their children’s ailments.
Apparently, it was not enough to have Pentecostal and Jehovah’s Witness parents literally getting away with murder. According to the article, religious exemptions are only now being publicly questioned because more people are claiming these exemptions apply to their less-popular belief systems, such as those found online: Read the rest of this entry »

Now there are some people who believe that things such as crop-circles are the handy work of extra-terrestrials. They are likely to say: “Who or what else could create such perfect patterns?” Some of those severely confused people might look at these pictures and draw similar conclusions. But unless someone can offer up a better explanation, they appear to me to be four separate vapor trails (a.k.a. contrails) that have formed a close-to-geometrically-perfect double cross. Having never seen a convergence of vapor trails like this before, I started wondering what the odds might be of me witnessing such an occurrence. There are several factors to consider, and probably some factors that I’m not even aware of, but I’ll give it my best shot.