LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY crazyjane13)

Four Corners, an excellent Australian current-affairs program, aired a show on the Exclusive Brethren last night. I've updated my last article on them - you can find it here at my journal.

A little bit more's come out about their possible Dominionist leanings. They definitely believe in a version of the Rapture story, and they appear to be hammering the "UN is Evil" angle. Still not definitive, but suspicious.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY navytron89)  Frombartsnotes 

Toy Monkey Impaled and Buried in Anti-Darwin Protest

"Let our distinguished academics see how Orthodox people treat their pseudo-theories"

Interfax-Religion reports on the most bizarre anti-Darwinian protest yet, from the Union of the Orthodox Banner-Bearers and the Union of Orthodox Brotherhood in Russia. Apparently the pious members bought a toy monkey, which they then set upon:

The banner-bearers drove the stake in the monkey’s chest. As Leonid Simonovich-Nikshich, the head of the union, explained to onlookers, "it is exactly how satanic cults were punished in old times".

Then the banner-bearers carried the monkey’s coffin on their shoulders behind Sts Cyril and Methodius’s monument, promising to bury it some place outside the city. "Let our distinguished academics see how Orthodox people treat their pseudo-theories", Simonovich-Nikshich said.