Interview With Journalist Threatened With 40 Lashes

August 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Her crime:  wearing trousers. via Atheist Media Blog

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Fascism + Racism

August 5, 2009 By 4 Comments

Analyzing the despicable e-mail from Boston police officer Justin Barrett that contained these true colors: Your defense of Gates while he is on the phone while being confronted [INDEED] with a police officer is assuming he has rights when considered a suspect. He is a suspect and always will be a suspect. His first priority [...]

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Why Should Someone Else’s Faith Trump My Reason?

July 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

An excellent case for anti-theism from a Daily Dish reader: Though I would like to believe that I am a tolerant, open-minded person, it seems likely that I fall into the “anti-theist” category of atheists. I would not choose that label for myself, but it describes my attitude more or less. My strong feelings on [...]

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Teenagers’ Limbs Cut Off For Stealing

June 29, 2009 By 1 Comment

as a crowd of 300 men, women, and children watched: Somalia’s capital Mogadishu was witness, Thursday, to the public amputation of the left leg and right hand from each of four thieves.  They were all teenagers, about seventeen years old. The thieves, were convicted of stealing some mobile phones and two guns by a Whahbist [...]

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Taking The Unity of Truth Notion Seriously

June 28, 2009 By 1 Comment

Cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss on the incompatibility of God and science.  The whole piece is worth your time.  This succinct statement summing up the article, however, hits the nail on the head: My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel [...]

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“The Curtain Has Been Pulled from the Islamist Wizard”

June 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Andrew Sullivan isolates the essential result of the last two weeks in Iran: it seems totally clear to me that the curtain has been pulled from the Islamist Wizard. Theocratic regimes require some base level of reverence, and watching the old Supreme Leader lose it at Friday prayers a week ago, and the bare-faced martial [...]

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The Theocratic Mindset of James Dobson

June 24, 2008 By 1 Comment

As something of a Rawlsian about public discourse, I have no problem with religious people arguing in government for application of ideals that they personally discovered through their religion or their sacred texts, their religious institutions, etc. as long as they respect the need to give reasons that are publicly accessible, reasons that do not [...]

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