Results tagged “news” from That's Plenty

So the Times today reports that religious fluidity in America is way up, which makes me happy, but that, according to Rice University's assistant director of the Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life, "Religion is [still] the single most important factor that drives American belief attitudes and behaviors."

Anyway, here's the breakdown, so you ADHD kids can skip the article itself:

Big losers in the irrational monolithic meme wars of recent years: Catholicism, Protestantism.

Big winners: Syncretic faiths of all kinds. Agnosticism.

Other big winners, according to my extrapolations: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster-ism. Jedi-ism. Clean CSS layouts-ism.

America's biggest families raised by proponents of: Mormonism. Islam.

America's smallest families probably raised by: Infertile nuns who hate babies.

My picks for the "Whatever Happened To...?" file: Zoroastrianism. Mesmerism. Kris Kross (not a religion, but what happened to those guys?).

Craziest shit reported in connection to: Scientology. Self-mummifying monks.

another edit: saw this in last week's times. don't you associate with these people?

Addendum from Book Review Ron Jeremy has a half blind, hairless rat named Fetus.

Highlights:
The word 'scrotum' is ruining this year's Newburry Award winning novel's sales as grumpy elementary school librarians ban the book. The word scrotum is overheard by the main character about a dog getting his scrotum bit by a rattlesnake. The author says this is a true story. Kids get some awesome books. And now it's new with a bunch of folks.

The navy will be deploying dolphins. Linking to dot mil sites makes me nervous.

Non NYT stuff follows including a J. Mann update.