Tears as Pastor kills off SantaChildren left a church in tears after being told: "There is no Santa Claus". The youngsters, aged between two and ten, were heartbroken by American Pastor Wade McLennan's talk of the true meaning of Christmas and parents have demanded an apology. Businessman Rob Hurley, whose daughter Rachel, eight, was at the Gabalfa Baptist Church Sunday school session in Cardiff said, "It's not up to the pastor to tell children Father Christmas does not exist. Only parents can decide when the time is right." Pastor McLennan said yesterday: "The reason for Christmas is Jesus. We talked about Jack and the Beanstalk, and Cinderella, and in that context Father Christmas would have been included. We were trying to make a distinction between what is real and what is fantasy."Daily Mail, Thursday 17th Dec, 1998.
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Date: 8/Apr/99Yogic flyers 'are cheap way to stop the war'The Natural Law Party's presidential candidate has suggested that President Clinton should send 7,000 yogic flyers to the Balkans to stop the war with brain waves.John Hagelin, a quantum physicist and scholar of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a tract written 3,000 years ago, said: "For the cost of a tail fin on the stealth fighter, the war could be stopped instantly." He has written to Mr Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Sandy Berger, the National Security Advisor, urging them to consider the possibility that hordes of transcendental meditators flipping about cross-legged in selected Balkan hotel rooms would provide the "exit strategy" everyone is looking for. Mr Hagelin organised a mass yogic flying session in Washington in 1993 and claims it was responsible for a 25 per cent reduction in local violent crime. Strategically sited in Bosnia and Albania for a month or two, with America paying their bills, he says the flyers could calm the region. He has not yet heard back from the President. Daily Telegraph, 8th April 1999.
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Creationism in KansasThe board of education in Kansas has taken the astonishing step of "de-emphasising" the theory of evolution in Kansas schools. This allows alternate ideas such as fundamentalist Christian Creationism to be taught either alongside, or (more likely, after religious pressure groups target individual schools) instead of the scientific theory of evolution in science lessons. Teaching Creationism in science classes? Surely this is a Bad Thing,
I hear you cry! No, I think creationism should be taught. It
will allow the students to learn just what the scientific process is
and how science should and should not work.
Teaching creationism as science will result in a generation of students who are essentially clueless about the workings of the natural world around them, but as they'll all have been "saved", what does a little ignorance matter, eh? |
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