Beliefs Have Consequences, Including Religious Ones

September 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

ZJ has another predictably perfect video brilliant in unpredictably sharp ways: There are those who say that religious beliefs are not at the root of certain behaviors that appear to be caused by religion. Even when the actions of the religious are completely in line with their beliefs, even when they openly proclaim that they [...]

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Influential Iranian Imam Supports Interrogations Using Rape

September 3, 2009 By 2 Comments

The following quotes from Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, with whom Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is said to “regularly consult,”  are graphic, sickening, and devastating to anyone with a conscience.  Read at your own discretion: Asked if a confession obtained “by applying psychological, emotional and physical pressure” was “valid and considered credible according to Islam,” Mesbah-Yazdi [...]

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The Religion Of Peace Murdering Gays In Iraq

August 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Sickening: (via Atheist Media Blog)

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Scientology

August 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A really disturbing look at some incidents from Scientology‘s dark and abusive history..

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Logic, Numbers, and Mary’s Conception

August 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Numbers 5:14, 18, 44: If feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure—then he is to take his wife to the priest…. After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he [...]

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Atheism’s Evil History

August 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

via Hollie Pugliares

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Saving Africa’s Witch Children

August 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Your Thoughts?

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Testing The Irish Blasphemy Law

July 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In response to Ireland’s recent decision to outlaw blasphemy, a commenter at jesusandmo.net offers this suggestion for how to test the law’s fair applicability: Stonyground says: July 24, 2009 at 7:47 pm When the bill regarding a ban on promoting religious hatred was being discussed in the UK (a kind of blasphemy law in disguise) [...]

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