Monthly Archives: February 2012
UK: Why atheists are angry, Part 93…
The Opinionista “Over It” – The rant of an angry, Agnostic, British, Indo-Pakistani woman of Muslim heritage. I am over Muslim communities from the same locality celebrating Eid on three different days because they believe that “sighting the moon” in … Continue reading
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Malaysia: We’re so secure and comfortable in the certainty of God…
…that we’re afraid of a tattoo. SMH Muslim-majority Malaysia has banned a planned concert by Erykah Badu after a photograph appeared showing the Grammy-winning singer with the Arabic word for Allah written on her body. The American R&B singer was … Continue reading
UK: What was that about ‘unfalsifiability’ again?
Watts Up With That? If you don’t know what ‘unfalsifiable’ means, look it up. That includes you, Richard Black. I’ve been getting a lot of pressure to cover the story by warmspinner Richard Black over at the BBC about a supposed feedback … Continue reading
Turkey: See? You don’t need religion to be an insane tyrant!
…but it helps. The Economist. …It was Ataturk’s embrace of rigid secularism and Western reforms that underlay Turkey’s recovery. But at what cost? A personality cult that carpets the country with busts and portraits of the great man was nurtured … Continue reading
US: Mormons Baptise Gandhi!
…and Mitt Romney needs a Vice-Presidential running mate. Coincidence? Huffington Post Helen Radkey, a former Mormon who has until now has focused on researching incidents of proxy baptisms being proposed for or performed on dead Jews, discovered the Gandhi records … Continue reading
Filed under Human rights abuse, Mormonism, Non-believers, Stupidity
US: To all atheists plotting world domination…
…South Carolina is on to you. South Carolina Legislature Online – South Carolina Constitution No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor who denies the existence of the Supreme Being… Just for the record, this is mind-bogglingly unconstitutional, … Continue reading
US: Child-abusing ex-headmaster ‘knows where any bodies are buried’
NJ.com Not long ago, the Rev. Luke Travers strolled the sprawling bucolic grounds of Delbarton School as the high-profile headmaster of the exclusive Morris Township all-boys academy, sought out by the rich, famous and politically connected who wanted their sons … Continue reading
Filed under Catholicism, Children, Fellow-believers, Human rights abuse, Sexuality
US: Two for the price of one!
Now, if he’d used the Torah to light a sacrificial wafer, and shut that up in a Koran, he could have made a grand slam. The Denver Post. A viral YouTube video in which Denver-based Christian preacher Ralph Messer literally … Continue reading
Australia: What do you call a gay who starts a church?
“David”, apparently. SMH AUSTRALIA’S first gay missionary church, with a congregation barely in double figures, is in schism with disaffected former members claiming it operates like a cult and could damage vulnerable people. David Witte says he was asked to … Continue reading
Afghanistan: Nine dead because some books were burnt — by accident
NYTimes.com KABUL, Afghanistan — The potential scope of the fallout from the burning of several copies of the Koran by American military personnel this week became chillingly clear on Thursday as a man in an Afghan Army uniform shot … Continue reading
