By Irreligiosity on Feb 13, 2008 in Around the World, Europe, Featured, Freedom of Speech, Historical Perspective, Islam, Religion, Secularism | 0 Comments
I suppose it serves me right for saying something even remotely positive about Islam, because the same day in Denmark five muslim men were arrested in a plot to murder one of the twelve Danish cartoonists who drew a caricature of the prophet Mohammed that Islamic extremists deemed offensive, to put it mildly.
And as we […]
By Irreligiosity on Feb 13, 2008 in Around the World, Christian Living, Christianity, Economics, Featured, Religion, United States | 0 Comments
I came across this article at Radar online about the evangelical Christians who run Forever 21, a fashion retail chain that has grown into a national retail juggernaut. The Changs, the Korean owners who started the business twenty-four years ago, attribute all of their success to the love of Jesus and the good old fashioned […]
By Irreligiosity on Feb 13, 2008 in Around the World, Catholicism, Christianity, Featured, Historical Perspective, Religion, Southeast Asia | 0 Comments
Catholics in Singapore are getting worked up over a line of Jesus branded cosmetics on the shelves of British retailer Topshop. Evidently it’s in poor taste to slap Jesus’ image onto a product and sell it at retail.
The self-righteous protests against using Jesus on something as worldly and frivolous as cosmetics are by far the […]