Disgusting. Afghans, leaving mosques after Friday Prayer, descended on the UN headquarters in Mazer-e-Sharif killing and beheading some of the UN staff. Fifteen people who would still be alive if it weren’t for religion http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/ten-more-people-who-would-be-alive-if-it-werent-for-religion/ Religion, contrary to the naivety expressed by some, cannot lay claim to morality. Religion is a source of enslavement, a [...]
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 [...]
Well, in the Maldives, if you’re a citizen then you have to be a Sunni Muslim. If you’re not a Sunni Muslim then you’ve got a problem. And in the case of Ismail Mohamed Didi this problem became a tragedy. What a hell are these islands? A sad example of religion being the cancer of [...]
Good. James Randi’s article http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/487-a-u-n-victory-for-reason.html states that the silly proposal brought to the United Nations to "…forbid critical, insulting or defamatory statements about religion…" has been rejected. Excellent news. I will criticise religion. I will make fun of it. Because clear and critical thinking demands it. Religions have, for far too long, abused their powers [...]
