Austria Closes Mosques and I Can’t Drink Beer In My Local Restaurant
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of Austria has ordered the closing of seven mosques and the investigation of dozens of, primarily, Turkish Imams.
Catholic Priest Under Investigation For Hosting Sex Orgies
A Catholic priest in northern Italy’s Veneto region, Andrea Contin, is under police investigation concerning allegations of hosting mass orgies and soliciting over a dozen women, according to reports Monday. He is also accused of living off immoral earnings and psychological violence.
How America’s Evangelical Christians Defended Hitler
While it often gets glossed over today, Adolf Hitler was a popular figure in American politics back in the 1930s. He was seen as a...
How Hitler and the Nazis Took Christ Out of Christmas
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech...
The Rapid Rise of Donald Trump: Can Europe’s Far Right Tell Us Why?
[caption id="attachment_146184" align="aligncenter" width="575"] Donald Trump at a campaign event in March in Kansas City, Missouri. JABIN BOTSFORD / THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES[/caption]...
Obama Criticizes Everybody Except Himself and Damn Right Too
President Obama decided to speak his mind during an interview and, it appears, his mind is currently blaming everyone else for pretty much everything -...
Paper Citing a ‘Creator’ Sparks Fury Within Science Community
[caption id="attachment_143790" align="aligncenter" width="624"] A poster from the Sistine Chapel showing "Creation of Adam" at the Albertina museum, in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)[/caption] (NEWSER)...
European Leader Gets Tough On Migrants
Watching my TV tonight some chap who isn't British but is, apparently, the President of The European Union decided that it was about time he...
What the Third Reich Was Building in Underground Bunker Could Blow You Away
In the closing days of World War II German commanders and their troops continued to fight valiantly, confident that their leader, Adolph Hitler, had an...
Scientists Find Evidence of Life After Death
Do you believe in life after death? Millions of people do, based primarily on religious beliefs that promise a heavenly afterlife. Unfortunately for these people...
Roman Catholic Church Fined For Mass Texting
[caption id="attachment_105399" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Sisters use a communal cell phone as they are amongst the first to arrive in the early morning before the Papal...
Lab chimpanzees see sun for first time (video)
Countless animals, including chimps, are kept in tiny cages for years and years while researchers experiment on them. Did you ever wonder what their reaction might be when they saw the sun for the first time? Here is a video that shows those reactions.
The Cow That Captured Germany… and the World
Yvonne the cow has been on the lam from a slaughterhouse evading search teams, police, an animal sanctuary, and a helicopter with a thermal camera.
Atheist wins right to wear pasta strainer as “religious headgear”
An Austrian man has won the legal right to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driving license photo to honor his religion.