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A Lack of Persecution
The current meme among conservative Christians – both Catholic and protestant – is that their religious liberty is being threatened by the Obama administration. Russel Shaw, a Catholic columnist here at Patheos, recently posted a column with the title The … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom
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Sehat on the Myth of American Religious Freedom
David Sehat, author of The Myth of American Religious Freedom and contributing blogger at US Intellectual History, has an editorial up at the Washington Post: Five myths about church and state in America. The editorial is brief, but he has … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom
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Rock Beyond Belief cancelled.
Thanks to Mike for flagging this up in another thread. I’m not going to write a long article about this at the moment, right now I just want to help spread the news: The US Army has sabbotaged Rock Beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Freedom
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Snyder vs. Phelps
I’ve heard a lot of American Christians worrying about the potential for hate speech laws that criminalize opposition to gay marriage or other homosexual issues. I’ve always thought that these worries were overblown, but I know that many other countries … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Freedom, Politics
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Rock the Bible Belt
While you weren’t looking, Rock Beyond Belief went from being a scrappy underdog to being potentially one of the biggest freethought events in the country. Granted, everything is still up in the air, since Justin and crew need to get … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Current Events, Freedom, Videos
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Summary execution, homosexuality and the United Nations, continued: USA kicks ass.
Some of you might remember a blog I wrote about the UN Third Commitee back in November, specifically about their removal of homosexuality from a list of reasons why states shouldn’t murder people. I was pleased that the US envoy … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Humanitarianism, Politics
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Summary execution, homosexuality and the United Nations.
News from the United Nations has emerged that’s frightening for more reasons than I can express. The UN Third Commitee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural issues has been debating a resolution protecting people from summary execution. Now, first of all, … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Humanitarianism, Politics, Uncategorized
34 Comments
Criticising Christianity not allowed in Texas schools?
Well, here’s another fine mess! It seems that the Texas board of education (who you will remember recently revised the curriculum to make Tea Baggers look better) have come up with another fine idea – banning books! Okay, that’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Christianity, Education, Freedom
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UK Gov – Filled with WIN!
I know Daniel gets a little bit annoyed at me sometimes for being quite proud of my country’s secular ways, but I’m putting that down to jealousy over stories like this one: “Answering questions from MPs on the Commons education … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Education, Freedom, Nationalism
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