Religion in sharp decline, according to UK census 2011
Some very interesting data have just been released from the 2011 UK Census. You can read the key stats here,...
Some very interesting data have just been released from the 2011 UK Census. You can read the key stats here,...
The IHEU is today releasing a report on discrimination against non-religious people, with examples drawn...
Even though unreason of various forms can be a dangerous thing, there are few of us who don’t occasionally...
Ron Lindsay, CFI President, today posted this interesting blog “On shunning fellow atheists and...
We can’t ignore the fact that persuasion becomes more difficult when your audience is pissed off. And...
While I was hoping to be able to post a review of Chris Stedman’s Faitheist today, my 1000-ish words...
One of the chapters in Bertrand Russell’s “Unpopular Essays” (1950) is “The Superior Virtue of the...
Topics we chatted about on the Secular World podcast 113 include atheism vs. humanism as social activist causes, atheism plus, religious circumcision, and the role of religion in shaping South African society.
Richard Mourdock is the latest in a sequence of Republican politicians to have said something offensive with regard to women and their rights over their own bodies. But when expressing outrage over the moral conservatism expressed by the likes of Mourdock, let’s try to be honest to the evidence – and not cherry-pick our examples to justify our prejudices.
Rebecca Watson’s article in Slate has (predictably) led to a flare-up of tempers in the battles that have raged since Elevatorgate. At some point, we’ll need to find a way out of this mess, and I’d suggest that doing so requires a little more temperance on all sides, and an increased willingness to listen without caring most for keeping score.
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