Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
You can google the term “Women in Islam” and find a summary such as this Wikipedia page – Women in Islam. There, if you take a quick peek, you will find that it discusses various aspects such as education, employment, legal matters, marriage, movement and travel, and of course dress code. We are of course all familiar … Read more
OK, that all falls into the “Kook of the week” award category, and to be totally clear, I do not of course mean Lawrence Krauss, but rather the chap making the claim. It all started with my opening post within a Humanist Muslim Facebook group that consisted of the following quote … “The least questioned … Read more
Yep, it has happened yet again. The religious group that takes Mark 16:17-18 literally have now discovered once again that it was not such a great idea after all. If curious to know what I’m on about, well that bible text reads … 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will … Read more
If you care about what is actually true, then beware of propaganda, even when it targets things that you do not support.
It’s a first, in a landmark case legal restrictions that stop a man from promoting extremist religious view have been placed upon him at the Old Bailey in the UK and will be in force for up to five years. The specific term used to describe this is an ASBO. If you are wondering what … Read more
Daniel K. Norris, a self-appointed evangelist, has written a response within Charisma News to the announcement by Justin Vollmar, the pastor of the virtual deaf church, that he was now an atheist (I was writing about that coming out yesterday) So why am I writing about this rebuttal? Well, it is everything I usually expect to … Read more