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We’ve had a few readers send in links to coverage of a First Amendment-related case out of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It’s a sad story that goes back to a 2011 Halloween parade. A small group of atheists marched in the parade, dressed as a Zombie Pope and a Zombie Muhammad. This outraged one Muslim father who attended the parade with his wife and son.
Thanks to technological advances, we have all sorts of ways to try to bring life into this world and to prevent life from going out of this world.
Every now and then, GetReligion readers send us the URLs for stories that they assume we will dislike — often because of the actual religious content of these pieces.
You probably won’t find many themes of forgiveness in your average ponzi scheme story. But when you’re writing about âthe Amish Bernie Madoff,â it’s likely too difficult to ignore them.
It is the year 2012, do you know where your local Episcopal cathedral is? Are you sure that there still is one?
On one level, the error that I am about to spotlight is so silly that it could just be a typo or a stupid (click here for classics) error — like someone calling Sen. Rick Santorum an evangelicalist or reporting that some liturgical committee has decided to modernize the Episcopalian prayerbook, again.
An editor, whose religion I don’t know, sent this Associated Press story along with the note, “Maybe I’m too sensitive to these things, but this strikes me as kind of a vile headline if you think about it–not that some people mistake him for a Protestant, but the implication is that they wouldn’t support him if they knew he was Catholic.”
