I recently heard Susan Jacoby wax lyrical about Ingersoll on the Reasonable Doubts podcast and I must confess, I know very little about him. I feel, though, that I should as he appears to have been an iconoclast in his time. I was recently sent a message by Julian Haydon alerting me to this link
For your edification and interest: Be there, or be square!
I was listening to a local radio station the other day. It is called Jack FM and is an interesting radio station in that it has a really large playlist compared to other stations and plays more music throughout the day as it only appears to have DJs for the breakfast show. The rest of the time it is
I know some of you have read this before as I posted this some months back, but in light of the new Brad Pitt film World War Z which i saw this weekend
As I reported the other day, the Girlguides have dropped the pledge to God from their vow. Now it appears that the Scouts are doing similarly, as the Telegraph reports: The movement has bowed to pressure from atheists and, from later this year, will offer an alternative promise for those join
Here is another guest post. The last one by The Thinker has had a thread which has exploded. This one is interesting, and one very similar to my lines of argumentation. Neil is
As grovels go, this is spectacular: the head of the American "ex-gay" ministry Exodus International has announced that it's now an ex-ministry, the day after posting a remarkable apology
The Telegraph and Daily Mail are predictably up in arms about this great news (something I have reported before). The BBC reports: Girls will no longer have to pledge their devotion to God when they join the Guides and Brownies in the UK. It comes after a consultation found a new Girlguidi
As mentioned in my last post, I was graciously asked by Randal Rauser on his blog recently to provide a synopsis of a few paragraphs to run in his series “Why I am an atheist” (or not a Christian. The series has been interesting and has elicited testimonies from Justin Schieber, Counter Apologist, J
I thought this might be topical, given new commenter Joseph's (a JW) predilection for evolution illiteracy whilst simultaneously claiming intellectual victory over an evolutionary biologist and other's complete pwnage of him. It is actually sad seeing psychology deny a person reality, because that i
So I was graciously asked by Randal Rauser on his blog recently to provide a synopsis of a few paragraphs to run in his series "Why I am an atheist" (or not a Christian. The series has been interesting and has elicited testimonies from Justin Schieber, Counter Apologist, Jeff Lowder, Ed Babinski and
Oh, the bigotry. Not allowed to hate the gayz via other organisations? Just make your own homophobic groups to indoctrinate children with intolerance. Well done Baptists. The Guardian: Resolution asks churches to consider rivals to Boy Scouts of America after its lifting of ban on homosexual memb