Yesterday, Guatemalan Congress discussed a bill that would make Biblical ‘education’ compulsory. So the Asociación Guatemalteca de Humanistas Seculares (Guatemalan…
Category Secularism
This is not just a bad sign for free speech, but it is a bad precedent for science — what will ‘The Lancet’ do when very picky churchgoers choose to be offended with the conclusions of one of their papers? Judging by this bad decision, those will also be removed, lest they offend the illiterate.
This is what science has found out about same sex parenting.
All marriages should be contracts between two or more consenting adults of any combination of sexes — now, *that* is equality!
I want to say a few words that should be more than enough for any civilized person who has not lived under a rock so far in 2015 to understand the paramount importance of drawing any concept without pandering to the ridiculous restrictions of barbaric superstitions:
via The New York Times:
How are we supposed to be the ones who civilly dissect ill-designed arguments if we’re not even capable of telling us apart from the very people who can’t do civility?
I’d like to congratulate Atheist Ireland for taking the lead in dissociating from a person that hurts our cause and thinks he’s entitled to just because he got readers. I’m following suit.
Even before the Charlie Hebdo massacre I had been thinking about the limits of freedom of expression. Some believe that…
There is still much room for improvement because this is still rather discriminatory: it *discriminates against non-Rastafarian consumers (religious privilege)*, it discriminates against those who consume more than the minimum dose and it discriminates against consumers of drugs other than marijuana.
Why did Muslim fundamentalists place a bomb in a nightclub in Bali? Has the Indonesian government extracted oil from other Muslim countries they invaded? No: the terrorists placed a bomb at the club, precisely because…
BBC reports:
This blog talks about issues considered “of the world of mystery”. The definition of this certainly not unique concept wasn’t…
When it comes to free speech, Bill Maher gets it:
Pat Condell calls it when he sees it:
Last night Bill Maher‘s Real Time episode had this epic final New Rule:
This week, Twitter hell broke loose when Richard Dawkins tweeted about aborting a Down fetus:
Whaaat?!?