Interesting article all about the Rise of the Nones in Scientific American

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Michael Shermer, a monthly columnist for Scientific American and also the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine writes a rather interesting article in the December issue of Scientific American all about the decline of religion and the rise of the Nones. The point he build up to is this … A 2012 Pew Research Center survey, … Read more

Killed by a New Age Guru

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James Arthur Ray, the new age kook, was given a platform by Oprah to promote his daft ideas and as a result people died Here is an expose of what happened and how he ended up killing three people in a heat endurance test outside Sedona., Ariz The investigators looked into his claims and discovered … Read more

Being good without any god

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Belief often insists that it retains the high moral ground and also asserts a monopoly over meaning, and yet the evidence for this is simply not there at all. It is perhaps all part of the psychology of belief where an appeal to our empathy is tapped into by asserting a claim that inside the … Read more

It is not just about “belief” vs “non-belief”

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Believing things that are not actually true motivates some to behave in an abhorrent manner, so much so that they can end up grinding some rather basic human rights under their belief-shaped boots. To illustrate, consider the manner in which people who happen to be gay are ostracized and condemned by many faith communities. Further … Read more

Islam – The UK’s fastest growing …… prison population

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The statistics from a July 29 House of Commons research report entitled, “Prison Population Statistics” show that the number of Muslim inmates in England and Wales jumped to 11,248 in 2012, up from 3,681 in 1997. To put that another way … over the past 15 years, the number of Muslims in British prisons has … Read more

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