Archive for May, 2008
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Sharon Stone’s China quake ‘karma’ remark
The May 29, 2008 AFP story begins:
Hollywood star Sharon Stone has apologised for suggesting China’s earthquake was bad “karma” for its handling of Tibet, but Christian Dior on Thursday dropped her from its local ads amid a public uproar.”
Stone made the comments at the Cannes Film Festival last week. The fuller context of her remarks, […]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Einstein calls all religions ‘the most childish superstitions’
According to Breitbart.com*, in a private 1954 letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, Albert Einstein wrote (in German):
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.
No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for […]
