Religion

This, from The Atlantic, is one reason why the morally sane will end up having to withdraw from this culture:

A reader writes, provocatively and interestingly:

A new national survey conducted for the Deseret News finds that Americans don’t pay as much attention to the Sabbath as we used to. Excerpt:

Half of U.S. adults today (50 percent) say the Sabbath has personal spiritual meaning for them, down from 74 percent in 1978. However, 62 percent of people agree that it’s important for society to have one day a week set aside for spiritual rest, the survey reported — and only 11 percent disagree with that proposition.

Scientology leader David Miscavige is engaged in a new war with his 80 year old father over a new tell- all book. The book exposes internal Scientology leadership struggles between founder L. Ron Hubbard and current leader David Miscavige and alleges poor living conditions and violence at the organization’s California headquarters. Ron Miscavige’s highly anticipated memoir entitled ‘Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me’, is due to hit stores next week. RT reports: Among the allegations in the book is that David “seized power” from Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Freemasonry has been linked to the allegations of a police cover up over the Hillsborough disaster that left 96 football fans dead. Accusations that South Yorkshire Police peddled lies to the media, changed more than 250 officer accounts and may have been influenced by freemasons, are all being considered by an investigation in the aftermath of the Hillsborough tragedy. The Independent Police Complaints Commission IPCC, the UK police watchdog, said that after the inquests ended yesterday,  it can now fully focus on its hunt for wrongdoing.