1. Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Comment #47591 by tinyteacakes on June 5, 2007 at 3:22 am

Cute.
Those swords look suspiciously like He-Man's... By the poweerrrr of Allaaahhh

2. Manufacturing belief

Comment #42363 by tinyteacakes on May 18, 2007 at 5:40 am

"Haven't studies shown that religious believers tend to be more optimistic, and that they're less prone to strokes and high blood pressure?

Yes, exactly. Therefore, evolution will select them."

I don't understand why religion can improve your selection chances. I've heard that religious people tend to live longer and have better health, I accept that. But people have children at a young age, the extra 5-10 years (or whatever it is) that religion may give a 70 year old (or a 40 year old 100,000 years ago) should make a negligible difference to the make up of genes in a population.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

3. Dogma

Comment #40405 by tinyteacakes on May 14, 2007 at 8:43 am

Stop whinging Henri. It's nice to have the arguments you already know put forward in different ways. If you don't like it, don't watch it.

4. The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy

Comment #38423 by tinyteacakes on May 8, 2007 at 4:15 am

Does anybody know how often this sort of thing happened under Saddam? I'm under the impression that he was good at keeping a lid on religious strife, but I'm not sure if his control extended to 'minor' incidents like stonings.