UK Supermarket Sacks Man for Sharing Comic Sketch Mocking Religion
This is not something you often hear about in the UK and so it has come as a little bit of a surprise to me. If you can't mock religion, then
Jonathan MS Pearce
‘In No God We Trust’: Atheist Group Gets Heat over Banners
Every now and again, religious people take the bait. My, they don't like it when atheism gets a bit of publicity. Of course, it's fine when it's
Climate Change, Denialism and Changing Our Ways
I have got myself into thinking about climate change again with the torrent of depressing news concerning the environment, our climate and biodiversity. Recently, such news includes Brazil, under right-wing President Bolsonaro having
On Left and Right Politics: Andy Ngo and Marie Colvin
I know that this was the subject of my last piece and I apologise if I’m going to bore you. However, this is something I’ve been brooding upon to the last
Analysing Antifa Attacking a Right-Wing Journalist
One of the big pieces of news that rocked the internet this weekend was concerning an anti-far counter-protest in Portland, Oregon on where a right wing-journalist, Andy Ngo, was attacked and injured and
Free Will: Have We Outgrown It or Is It Still a Useful Illusion?
I was having a conversation on Facebook about this so I thought I'd bring it here, setting the scene in this first post. Let's assume that libertarian free will
John Adams on Christianity
A friend of mine forwarded on some great quotes from Norman Cousins' In God We Trust concerning Founding Father John Adams and his opinions on Christianity:Christianity to him was the "
Lebanon's Nonreligious
I recently posted excerpts from a BBC article detailing the deconversion of many people in Turkey. Now the BBC has produced a similarly-themed video concerning the deconversion of those in Lebanon. Good luck
Ingersoll on Salvation
My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it
Alabama Megachurch Can Now Have Its Own Police Force
Oh dear. A change in law has allowed for a plan for an Alabama megachurch to have its own morality police. CNN report: An Alabama megachurch plans to start its own police force
Natural Law, Essentialism and Nominalism
I have said this many times before in different ways and as part of different posts, but I thought I would explicitly make this point on its own. Natural Law Theory and the
Natural Law Theory, Morality and Rational Beings
Natural Law Theory (NLT) is an ethical theory derived from the thinking of people such as Thomas Aquinas that attempts to establish that humans, for example, have an ideal form or essence that