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More “confronting with love”
From “the Thinking Christian” (they do love to pretend it’s all perfectly reasonable, don’t they). In the meantime I’ve joined up with a handful of Christian thinkers and leaders planning to bring...
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What price the golden rule eh?
Another truculent Christian who plans to go to the Reason Rally in order to interfere with other people’s event. Richard Dawkins will be one of the main speakers, which tells us about all we need to...
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“Atheists are not being persecuted”
Another pile of foetid dingo’s kidneys bashing atheists at spiked. The title (not necessarily chosen by the author): God save us from atheist whining. The subtitle (ditto): A US campaign encouraging...
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True or false: atheism is the source of all evil
More anti-atheist bullshit, this time from a college in Dublin. Michael Nugent explains. Hibernia College Dublin, in its Higher Diploma in Arts in Primary Education, is teaching as part of its Religion...
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More strident shrill atheism
A high school in Iowa got a Christian rock band to come to the school to tell the students some good stuff, but it didn’t work out as well as the school expected. (Secularism? What secularism? We don’t...
View ArticleA triumph for the Texas Taliban
So there’s this couple in Texas looking forward to their second baby, a brother for their 2-year-old daughter. Yet now my doctor was looking grim and, with chair pulled close, was speaking of alarming...
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Reportedly offended by
Egypt. A court in Egypt has upheld the three-month prison sentence given to the leading comic actor, Adel Imam, for insulting Islam in his films and plays. Is that an accurate translation? Is that...
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They should follow it without any argument
It’s a small (comparatively) sect in India that insists on mutilating girls’ genitalia. The Bohra brand of Islam is followed by 1.2 million people worldwide and is a sect of Shia Islam that originated...
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A duty to raise a new generation of bigots
Simply revolting. The Roman Catholic church has written to every state-funded Catholic secondary school in England and Wales asking them to encourage pupils to sign a petition against gay marriage…The...
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Donohue’s success
Useful background on the Catholic League. The Catholic League was founded in 1973 by Jesuit priest Virgil Blum. William Donohue assumed leadership in July 1993. Since then, the membership has grown...
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They hid behind masks & helmets while beating up ordinary people
Actually, that Jakarta Post account of the “protest” at Irshad Manji’s bookstore talk was a good deal too minimal. Manji gives a fuller account on (ironically) Twitter. Four years ago, I came to...
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Singing dancing sluts killed for singing and dancing
Well now I feel sick. Last week there were news reports that four women and two men in Pakistan had been sentenced to death for singing and dancing at a wedding. Yes that’s right; singing and dancing...
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CFI expresses outrage over the sentencing of Alexander Aan
The Center for Inquiry is organizing a protest outside the Indonesian embassy in DC next week. The protest is at the prison sentence handed down to Alexander Aan for expressing an opinion about...
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Only you can help prevent bishops
CFI is also taking on the bishops, by defending birth control and telling Obama to do likewise. And we can help. HHS is allowing public comments on the new guidelines until Tuesday, June 19, 2012....
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My useful advice
Career advice: don’t do anything book-related in Malaysia. They bust people for managing bookstores that distribute Irshad Manji’s book. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Borders bookstore manager in Malaysia...
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People must accept that we will impose Sharia whether they like it or not
The Islamists in Mali aren’t bothering about winning hearts and minds. Hundreds of people protested their plan to chop off someone’s hand and a radio journalist was beaten up for urging the protesters...
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No joy
Life should be dull and empty and joyless, because god. No music, no dance, no play, no laughter, no frivolity, no flirting, no getting jiggy. No faces, no conversation, no friendship, no mingling, no...
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Another one
In Cairo, it’s reported that a mob attacked a Christian man, who was then arrested for being an atheist. An angry mob of Egyptians gathered around a Christian man’s home on Thursday evening, attacking...
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Xianityophobia
Right right right, I’m an “Islamophobe,” and criticizing Islam is punching down because Muslims are a despised group. (The second part is true, but the first part doesn’t follow. Punching Muslims is...
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Come back a different person
So clearly the guilty verdict on Nechemya Weberman, unlicensed “therapist” to rebellious young girls, presents a problem for people who need to control rebellious young girls. What to do, what to do....
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