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Lying to promote a belief … completely blows your credibility

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The Godless spellchecker has a great article exposing an absurd claim published within the UK’s Independent that ‘Islamophobic’ hate crime is up by 70% in London … ‘Islamophobic’ hate crime is up by 70% in England’s capital, we’re informed by the BBC today ahead of their scheduled documentary ‘Inside Out: Behind The Veil‘ this evening. A concerning headline indeed. … Read more

Why is Kim Davis getting so much attention?

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So the latest, as I write this, is that there has been a rally of hundreds who gathered in support of Kim Davis, a county clerk in the US state of Kentucky who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples. Her husband (her 4th apparently) advised the crowd that his wife will … Read more

Why is there so much hostility towards atheists from the religious?

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I once tried a little experiment in a FB group. Upon diving in and starting to swim amongst the religious believers I deployed slightly different words. The result? – interactions were quite different. It was perhaps akin to this. “Do you collect stamps?” Instead of being specific and explaining, “No, I’m not a stamp collector”, … Read more

Refusing to read a college text due to religious beliefs

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There is a story that was recently doing the rounds about college students rebelling and refusing to read course material because it conflicted with their religious beliefs. It all started within Duke University’s student rag and that was then picked up by: CNN, USA Today, Salon, The New Civil Rights Movement, the Washington Post, the Onion AV club, Inquisitr, Slate, the Daily Beast, and of course was … Read more

Finding Jesus in the stars

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[Side Note: This is an updated version, the author of the press release contacted me to point out that I had misrepresented him, and he was in fact correct, so I have applied some wording changes] The Friendly Atheist has a posting about a press release revealing that Jesus has been discovered in a star … Read more

The Moral Decay of Conservative Christianity

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Valerie Tarico, a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington, has a nice Conservative Christian takedown over at RawStory entitled “Conservative Christians point fingers at atheists to cover growing corruption in church“. On the surface the claims made by many belief leaders sound both credible to those that believe and are also very much on script, … Read more