Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
If you missed it, or you live outside the US and don’t have access to CNN, then here it is … How does it play out? We get to meet Mr & Mrs Gormley, and then their son David who is, unlike his parents, not religious, and that has been quite distressing for his parents. They then … Read more
I have a couple of related links for you today that tell a story, and both concern people who made the leap from being a deeply devoted believer to atheist. I often find such stories interesting, because I am always curious to understand what makes people tick and why such transitions take place, and perhaps … Read more
Much to my surprise, Conrad Black (yes ‘the’ Conrad Black), has written an article entitled “The shabby, shallow world of the militant atheist” within the National Post (a paper he once owned), and there he trots out a litany of rather weird claims in order to assert a god claim. If it had been anybody else, I’d … Read more
The Popular Claim The news of what has just happened is explained in the UK’s Independent and many other places as follows … A bill that would restrict the right to marry to people of faith and require all marriage licenses to be approved by a member of clergy was approved by the Oklahoma state House … Read more
So a posting has popped up that is basically the Mother Lode of weird religious claims. Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadiyya Muslim has written an article entitled, “New Atheism: The Mother Lode of Bad Ideas” that starts out as follows … Mere hours after condemning the murder of three Muslim students at Chapel Hill last month, notorious … Read more
So the following quote comes from “The Blaze” and thus needs to be digested with a rather huge lump of salt … Journalist and pastor Lee Strobel — an atheist reporter-turned-Christian writer — is wondering whether a person’s relationship with his or her father could be impacting what individuals believe about the existence of a higher power. Strobel, who commissioned the … Read more