religion

Indonesian Insanity – Non-believer jailed for 2.5 years after writing “God doesn’t exist” on his Facebook page

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The Jakarta times reports … An Indonesian man arrested after writing “God doesn’t exist” on his Facebook page was jailed for 30 months Thursday for sharing explicit material about the Prophet Mohammed online. Alexander Aan, 30, was found guilty of “deliberately spreading information inciting religious hatred and animosity,” presiding judge Eka Prasetya Budi Dharma told … Read more

Your Support Needed – Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku vs the Catholic Church

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First the background – Hopefully you are already familiar with it all A couple of months ago Sanal Edamaruku, the President of the Indian-based skeptic organization Rationalist International, was invited by an Indian TV channel (TV-9) to visit a Catholic Church in Mumbai to offer his opinion of a claimed miracle. He is well-known in … Read more

offending religious feelings … gets you a prison sentence in Spain

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People get offended by many things … smoking, chewing gum, spitting, etc… but there is apparently one very special category of offence in Spain, “offending religious feelings”, apparently that will potentially get you jail time. The news is that one of Spain’s leading underground artists has been charged with this, appeared in court and now faces … Read more

Catholic Church still recommending that abuse should be covered up and not reported

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We all know about the abuse, and are now aware it was not simply about a few bad priests, but also involved a quite frankly criminal conspiracy to protect the abusers and so enabled them to continue to molest thousands over many decades without fear of any consequences at all. They claim that everything has … Read more