Brand new British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is an atheist and refused to take a religious oath when being sworn in:
Tag Religious Privilege
At last, the day Donald Trump was no longer in office had finally arrived. I happily watched the Biden and…
If a family don’t respect their atheist members enough to have gatherings in places and settings where everyone feels welcome, what all the kids will pick up on, then, is that’t is OK to treat atheist relatives (and atheists in general) with less amount of respect and love than that afforded to everyone else
I fail to see why people with religious deeply held beliefs would get a pass on behaviors that are definitely not allowed for people with non-religious deeply held beliefs.
KPFA deplatformed Richard Dawkins. This was entirely predictable and, actually, we know very well who has been paving the way for this.
Mehta failed epically to hold accountable three public servants who are hindering the efforts to fight Muslim terrorism, and made up a shitty excuse for their behavior (with no supporting evidence whatsoever), throwing two fellow secularists under the bus in the process
Colombia has a blasphemy law, so I don’t know why it is glaringly absent on the map showing which countries have blasphemy laws.
Treating Islam as a race, instead of as a religion, hinders the efforts to treat all citizens equally under the law, by way of giving Islam a special treatment, that is religious privilege.
It’s not an attack on Muslim population — the ban only applies to places and circumstances where it is legally required to see the full face of individuals for identification purposes.
The argument that the rules can be skipped if you have an imaginary friend has won once again — thank you Waris Ahluwalia.
I’m sorry, I won’t tiptoe around Islam or any other superstition with a sacred book that literally advocates for the suffering of others, I won’t give any irrational beliefs special treatment — that’s religious privilege, and those who endulge it have a share of responsability in the state of affairs today.
All religion is political and tries to impose itself on the rest of society, so there’s no actual difference between “Islamism” and “Islam”. It’s just politically correct crap.
Actually, drawing Muhammad is the kind thing to do because it questions religious authority, and questioning authority, any authority, is the first step to challenge injustice.
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.
A Spain’s small schismatic Catholic church, the Palmarian Church of the Carmelites of the Holy Face, has a new Saint…
Recently I got my apostasy letter, confirming I am no longer part of the Catholic Church. This is something I…
At Atheist Revolution, Vjack posted about the personal impact of negative attitudes toward Islam, commenting on Melody Moezzi‘s post on CNN Belief…
Christians are framing it like it’s a discrimination issue – it is not; having a religion is not an excuse…
So, there’s a new accomodationist op-ed out there by Douglas Murray. It looks like Keith Kloor supports what Murray has to…
Last year, the UN was about to approve a treaty to reduce mercury pollution and environmental mercury exposure across the world,…