Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
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
People have different degrees of confidence regarding different things, and non-belief is no exception to that observation. For example, some make the observation that due to the complete lack of evidence, god claims can be dismissed. Others would take that a step further and make a “no-God” assertion for various reasons. However, it is not … Read more
The Islamc month of Ramadan has started. This is a period when Muslims fast and pray for an entire month. OK, first lets clear up a few items, here is a very brief list of things that sometimes confuse non-Muslims: Yes, they are going to fast for a whole month … but only when the … Read more
I must admit that Giles Fraser has a rather good gift for calling things out as they are. He describes his time at the general Synod as follows … Dante’s vision of hell was colourful, of course. But for the real deal, look no further than the General Synod of the Church of England. I sat … Read more