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Selling your daughter … would you do it? – Today some are doing exactly that out of desperation

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This is utterly tragic … almost beyond words. Syrians fleeing the conflict to places like Jordan are finding themselves destitute and out of sheer desperation are forced to extreme measures. The Toronto Star has the details … Nezar too was a homemaker in Homs who arrived in Jordan last year. Her husband was a taxi … Read more

Claim: “You can’t criticize my belief, you know nothing about it”

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When debating with some believers the other day, I encountered a rather common claim. The context was a conversation regarding end-times in which some nonsense was being spouted about the Antichrist. I was rather astonished to find that the “proof” on the table consisted of the symbols on the US dollar. I asked the direct … Read more

Contrary Evidence To Evolution And Global Warming?

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Following last month’s Glasgow Skeptics talk, “Evolution and Global Warming Denial: How the Public is Misled”, by NCSE (National Centre for Science Education) Executive Director Dr Eugenie Scott, ID proponent Dr Alastair Noble has used his website, The Centre For Intelligent Design (never to be confused with The Centre For Unintelligent Design!), to take issue … Read more

Lost in York

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I’ve spent the day today in York (the old one founded by the Romans in CE 71). My son is off to university there, so I drove him there yesterday. Today we did a big shop in the morning so that he can now hibernate for the winter in his dorm as he studies. We … Read more

Atheist Pastors in Holland

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The BBC reports today about a cleric who is actually an atheist …

The Rev Klaas Hendrikse can offer his congregation little hope of life after death, and he’s not the sort of man to sugar the pill.

An imposing figure in black robes and white clerical collar, Mr Hendrikse presides over the Sunday service at the Exodus Church in Gorinchem, central Holland.

It is part of the mainstream Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN), and the service is conventional enough, with hymns, readings from the Bible, and the Lord’s Prayer. But the message from Mr Hendrikse’s sermon seems bleak – “Make the most of life on earth, because it will probably be the only one you get”.

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