“Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” Advocates Under Threat

July 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The New York Daily News reports: A CHARISMATIC terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day” on an execution hit list. Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki – the radical who has also been cited as inspiring the Fort Hood, Tex., massacre and the [...]

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Richard Dawkins On How Atheism Is Not A Fundamentalism

July 13, 2010 By 2 Comments

Your Thoughts?

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Do You Like Anti-Catholicism Mixed In With Your End Times Delusions?

July 8, 2010 By 4 Comments

If so, the new Jack Chick tract on the end times will really hit the spot! (If you’ve ever just wondered what it would be like if Glenn Beck wrote a Jack Chick tract, this seems the closest approximation.) H/T: Secular Outpost. Your Thoughts?

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Threatened With Death Penalty, Maldivian Skeptic Of Islam Recants

July 3, 2010 By 2 Comments

A while back I highlighted the story of a Maldivian man who was attacked by a crowd for expressing his lack of belief in Islam during the Q&A session by a the visiting Indian scholar Dr. Zakir Naik. Maldives is a state where it is illegal to not believe. Now, viaAtheist Media Blog, here’s video of [...]

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A Dictatorship Of Relativism?

July 3, 2010 By 3 Comments

BBC Radio 4 analyzes the pope’s catchphrase, “a dictatorship of relativism”, used for describing the secular West.  Here’s the program description: The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it’s an idea that is under attack. Pope Benedict claims that we are [...]

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Penn Jillette Again On The Difference Between Muslims And Christians In Taking Criticism

June 29, 2010 By 1 Comment

I already highlighted Penn Jillette’s Vanity Fair interview in which he praised Christians for being better at taking criticism than Muslims, but this quote from his new Las Vegas Weekly interview, which I found via Boing Boing and Reddit, conveys his feelings as much as his thoughts, and those feelings are both depressing on the one [...]

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Losing Color

June 29, 2010 By 1 Comment

by David Hayward, Naked Pastor Your Thoughts?

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Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes Are

June 28, 2010 By 3 Comments

Tushnet’s moral choice for herself and for other gays is celibacy or gender reassignment. Of course for some people, specifically some of the transgendered, a sex change is entirely appropriate and preferable to gay sex because from a gender (rather than a sex) perspective, those who are pre-op transgendered and are attracted to members of their [...]

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