I’ve been watching with increasing bewilderment and concern over the reaction of two London universities (London School of Economics and University College London) to the “Jesus and Mo” pictures. Coyne of “Why Evolution Is True” has a couple of posts on this today: More censorship at British universities http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/more-censorship-at-british-universities/ Apropos http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/apropos-2/ Pharyngula also has a [...]
Great video from philhellenes Through These Godless Eyes All the religions on Earth could be 100% wrong and there could still be a Purpose, a Reason, a Creator (or, perhaps more likely, creators). As an atheist I doubt it, but I don’t object to THAT belief. We’ll never learn how to solve the problem of [...]
Another examples of craziness; stupid Malaysian “justice”: Malaysian ‘teapot cult’ woman loses Islam legal bid http://richarddawkins.net/articles/642208-malaysian-teapot-cult-woman-loses-islam-legal-bid Additionally, as I have said before, no one is born a “Christian” or a “Muslim”. People may be born to parents who practice a certain religion but a new-born doesn’t know or care about religion. The parents and their [...]
The world is a better place with the death of that madman. His particular form of Islamic ideology and those of his friends, the Taliban, are evil through-and-through. Well done USA. Remember, though, that this is a war; battles have been won but there is still a long way to go. But we can allow [...]
Got this Reuters article via richarddawkins.net: Islamic bloc drops U.N. drive on defaming religion http://richarddawkins.net/articles/608036-islamic-bloc-drops-u-n-drive-on-defaming-religion Islamic countries set aside their 12-year campaign to have religions protected from "defamation", allowing the U.N. Human Rights Council to approve a plan to promote religious tolerance on Thursday. Western countries and their Latin American allies, strong opponents of the [...]
A couple of recent articles at richarddawkins.net today with videos. Why I left Islam http://richarddawkins.net/videos/607468-why-i-left-islam Why Wafa Sultan left Islam http://richarddawkins.net/videos/607471-why-wafa-sultan-left-islam One video summarises the story of a young person’s journey from Islam to freedom: alyraly’s “Why I left Islam!” The other articles has two videos that tell the story of Wafa Sultan and her [...]
Here’s a sad story of a Muslim cleric who is also a scientist. He tried to expound evolution to Muslims but he experienced a backlash from the religious and, coupled with thinly veiled threats, was forced to backtrack on his previous evolution statements: I’ve already posted that scientists that are religious are in a dubious [...]
Pharyngula posted an article on this video. So pretty and so…grotesque! Pharyngula is right. The religious will see this video as an affirmation of their beliefs. The more I see the more I find it incredible that people can believe in the junk that forms many religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. I’ll need [...]
