Religion to become extinct
A study using census data shows that religion is heading for extinction in Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland. The study, presented at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation. The research team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one. The team took census data stretching back as far as a century on religious affiliation. The team then applied their nonlinear dynamics model, adjusting parameters for the relative social and utilitarian merits of membership of the "non-religious" category. They found that those parameters were similar across all the countries studied, suggesting that similar behaviour drives the mathematics in all of them. And in all the countries, the indications were that religion was headed toward extinction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197?print=true
Chechens in Finland Against Hate Speech
Around 30 members of the Chechen diaspora in Finland held a peaceful demonstration outside the Lutheran church in the town of Raasepori on 31 October 2010. The demonstrators wanted to turn the attention of the parishioners to the threats and malicious statements of pastor Juha Molari against Chechen refugees in Finland. The demonstrators handed out leaflets informing the parishioners about Molari's documented statements and carried placards saying, "We are not terrorists", "Why does this pastor persecute us?", and "Molari's hate group persecutes refugees".
http://finrosforum.fi/chechens-in-finland-against-hate-speech
Mafia Thanks God for New Boss
Despite vocal condemnations by church authorities, Italy's organized crime still has close ties to Catholic rites and traditions. This, said sociologist Alessandra Dino, who has written a book on the links between the church and the mafia, is no surprise: the connection stretches back to the very origins of organized crime. The church, says social activist Vincenzo Linarello, who has funded co-op businesses that the mafia has targeted for their refusal to pay protection money, has been silent on the mobsters' exhibited religiosity for too long.
Papacy, Inc.
The Vatican prosecutor of clerical sex abuse warned perpetrators that they would suffer damnation in hell that would be worse than the death penalty, Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, Joseph Ratzinger criticised raids on the Catholic church by Belgian police investigating sex abuse claims, The Guardian reported. The leader of the Catholic cult deplored the raids and demanded that his organisation be allowed to take charge of investigating abusers in its ranks. The Catholic church is quite like a multinational corporation, which adamantly opposes (transnational) regulation and insists on self-regulation by the psychopathic corporations themselves.
Time to put the Catholic cult on trial
The potential financial bankruptcy of the Catholic Church is rivaled only by the moral bankruptcy reaching from parish priests all the way to the Vatican. Tens of thousands of cases of sexual abuse have emerged in dozens of countries from Asia to Europe and from Australia to the Americas. The vulnerability of the victims seems only contingent on the number of clergy. The Catholic Church has fallen off a cliff. The people's political representatives, law enforcement agencies, and courts, must demand full accountability and compensation from the individual perpetrators of these heinous crimes and the entire organization that both protected and aided these pedophiles. The Catholic Church, and Pope Joseph Ratzinger, must stand trial.
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