This video is pretty shocking. The girl is awesome - so erudite (it appears) and her uncles seems to have been an excellent influence. But the cleric! The cleric! This is where morality
The BBC reports:
Bruce Springsteen has cancelled a concert in North Carolina, joining business groups in condemning a state law that rolls back protection for gay and transgender people.
The law invalidated several
Well, it's hardly surprising now, is it... (at least on the critical thinking side). The International Business Times reports the following (this has done the rounds over the last month):
The
This depresses me, it really does. How many is this now? The Guardian reports:
A Bangladeshi law student who criticised Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said on Thursday, the
Harmonising the Old Testament with the New Testament is a tough job. And don't go trying to use Paul to do that job. Circumcision and genocide are slightly different.
Zombies and philosophy - what could be better?
The Bible contains Jehovah's jihads and is more violent than the Qu'ran.
So I posted this meme to my facebook profile:
Now I thought that was pretty funny. Prayer is notoriously ineffective. But a Catholic friend posted this reply:
Hmm...and space exploration has benefited humanity so much!
Are animals sentient enough to deserve "human" rights?
The BHA reports (which has been taken up in the UK by national media outlets):
An investigation carried out by the British Humanist Association (BHA) has revealed that a number of unregistered strictly
This report in the Independent has been doing the rounds. In this day and age, it's pretty sad.
It’s often said that the world is becoming an increasingly secular place.
I recently posted on the topic of mentalizing deficits and using this as an example of God's unfairness, and thus arguing that either God does not exist, or he is not