Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
An article by Will M. Gervais and Ara Norenzayan that was published in Science back in 2012 suggested that Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief, and if curious to see the precise details of that paper then you will find the full PDF for it here. So let’s dig into this a bit and see what it is all … Read more
The House of Saudi has faced some recent stiff competition, but is quite determined to maintain its position as the top Human Rights abuser on the planet, and so it has picked on a random Saudi twitter user who dared to express doubt about Allah and sentenced him to 10 years in jail, and also … Read more
The Open Door Baptist Church in South Carolina has had a bit of a reputation for being very vocally Anti-Gay. They tend to turn up and picket with signs that promise hellfire and brimstone to anybody who is gay, and as an example, here is one article describing how they behave … Open Door Baptist Church in Easley, … Read more
The Reverend Howard Curtis, age 73, is currently on trial for sexually assaulting the woman in his church between January 1, 2009 and July 15, 2013. The London Standard reports some of the details that have emerged … The spankings were to satisfy self-styled Reverend Howard Curtis’s “desire for power and sexual satisfaction,” Croydon crown court … Read more
Ken Ham, the chap who runs the Creation Museum, is I must admit a truly entertaining individual and does appear to be rather gifted at coming out with some truly weird stuff at times. His foundational thing is that not just planet earth, but the entire universe is only 6,000 years old and so apparently … Read more
Now that sanctions are being lifted in Iran and they finally have funds, one of the very first things that they have decided to spend it on is a bounty for the murder of a foreign citizen whose only crime was to write a book (shudders, oh the horror). The UKs Independent reports … Forty state-run Iranian media … Read more