Top 10 Religion Stories
... there seemed to be such parity in piety between the two major parties that faith may have been cancelled out as a factor. A late October poll showed that only one in 10 Americans regarded the country's moral and spiritual condition as their foremost electoral criterion. Obama captured 53% of the Catholic vote (up 13% over John Kerry's 2004 tally) despite claims by several bishops that voting Democratic was tantamount to sin. Faith was simply not a ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Number 10 on this list -- "Extraterrestrials may already be saved" -- is a perfect example of how servile some of our national journals of truth and fact can be in the face of the religious. This cockamamie story shows, once again, that you can say just about anything and be taken seriously as long as people call you Father or Reverend or Sheikh. Imagine if Jose Funes was not a member of the clergy, and had sent a letter to Time's editors, purporting that aliens may "already be saved" and that humans are the "lost sheep" of the cosmos. I'll say no more -- you can complete the analogy on your own.