Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Salvation Army is of course a group that embraces traditional Christian views, but we all know that. In fact, they have a rather good public image because their mission is to help the poor, destitute and hungry by meeting both their “physical and spiritual needs”. I’m not so sure about the “spiritual” bit, that is … Read more
Why or why is it always Islam that appears to be determined to drag everybody back into the stone age. India Today reports … Kerala’s nine prominent Muslim organisations led by the Muslim League have decided to approach the Supreme Court to exclude Muslim women from the law prescribing minimum marital age. According to them, … Read more
As reported by the National Secular Society, there have been more revelations regarding the bizarre ethos that pervades the Islamic Free school in the UK city of Derby … As previously reported, concerns have been raised that female staff are being forced to wear head coverings, even if they aren’t Muslim. However, it has now … Read more
A rather common claim that is often raised by believers is that non-belief is a belief. It usually goes something like this … “Ah I admire you, it takes a lot of faith to not believe in god” … or similar. (Yes, time to roll your eyes, it is a very common card for believers … Read more
The word “Militant” is often prefixed with the word “Atheist” to describe Richard Dawkins, and yet when I hear this gross abuse of the term, I can only think of the person deploying it … “What an ignorant twat”. To those that happily abuse the term, let me remind you what it actually means. To … Read more
This is both sad, utterly pathetic, and beyond repellent, Reuters and various other sources report … An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has caused an outcry in the media … Read more