Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Chartered Psychologist Jill Mytton has been speaking at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology in Cardiff about children who grow up in religious cults. Her observation is that they face considerable difficulties, not only during their childhood, but also after leaving the group. She explains … “Second-generation adult survivors of high-demand … Read more
Children can benefit from learning philosophy from a young age. It is not necessary to drill them on Descartes and Kierkegaard; children can learn logic, evaluate ethical dilemmas, learn empathy, and consider the way they experience the world around them by playing philosophical games that are fun and simple. Keeping the age of the children … Read more
Sometimes you just can’t make it up, to ensure that they can maintain their monopoly on complete and utter bullshit the Vatican has a special offer … In its latest attempt to keep up with the times the Vatican has married one of its oldest traditions to the world of social media by offering “indulgences” to followers … Read more
The latest Jesus & Mo is quite funny … Now what makes this even funnier is that a few minutes after publication a story appeared in the Jesus & Mo’s Twitter feed – Banglalore’s Barwomen Ordered to Wear Decent Clothes. Least you wonder who Jesus & Mo are … well as historian Tom Holland observed, they … Read more
John Zuhlsdorf, a catholic priest who blogs over at Fr. Z’s Blog, has made the most bizarre claim I’ve ever seen. He starts out with … Homosexuals often commit the most physically brutal crimes that the police see. And as you might expact, that opening line by itself drew a lot of twitter attention, so … Read more
George Zimmerman thinks that God planned for him to shoot and kill Trayvon Martin … … and apparently the jury agreed because he walked free from a Florida courtroom late on Saturday after a jury acquitted the neighbourhood watch leader of murdering an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in a case that played into the national debates about … Read more