Antipodes

Dans un monde où la science aborde des challenges inimaginables (génétique et physique surtout), de nombreux idiots persistent à imaginer qu...

If I have any Down Under Antipodes readers left (which is rather unlikely), they might be surprised to hear me say—unless they knew so alr...

I've never understood why Catholics are so obsessed by blood and guts, as if the Creator had been particularly concerned by human anatom...

At both extremities of my personal Antipodes (Australia and France), God's dull clowns seem to be playing their roles by using comparabl...

I’m disappointed. This outrageous Monty Python sketch should have been censored in every self-respecting god-fearing Christian nation throug...

One would have imagined that the Church in France has had time enough to realize that politics should be left to the elected representatives...

On the occasion of International Women's Day , the US Freedom from Religion Foundation placed a full-page ad in the New York Times enc...

Christine and I were legally divorced on 22 November 1977. Subsequently, the numbers representing that date, 221177, stuck in my mind to su...

A complaint was lodged this morning urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate Benedict XV and three senior Vatic...

Enda Kenny is the Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland. On 20 July, in the Dáil Éireann (lower house) of the Oireachtas (Irish parliame...

I've often felt that, for Catholics, the human body—alive or dead—is a huge problem: indeed a puzzling obstacle that sends them into a s...

Nothing less than ridicule will put an end to antiquated conflicts labeled Vatican versus Science . In the right corner (Jesus saved the rob...

In the context of the pope and priestly pedophilia, the brilliant British barrister Geoffrey Robertson knows what he's talking about, a...

I know little about Joseph Stalin 's sense of humor, but I would imagine that he was cracking a joke when he once asked sarcastically: ...

I found this funny story in the excellent Pharyngula blog by PZ Myers [ access ] . The history of Catholicism is filled with magic happeni...

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And—like the baseles...

An idiotic priest at the Vatican named Raniero Cantalamessa dared to say in a Good Friday homily in St Peter's Basilica, heard by Bened...

Computer atheists refer kindly to the pope as Benny Hex , since 16-based counting is designated as hexadecimal. More rapidly than expected, ...

A fine article by Jason Ball on the website of the Young Australian Skeptics examines blatant cases of inaccurate Australian journalism co...

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil... It might work for monkeys... but there's no way in the world that this approach can be adopt...