Visitor “randyloubier”who, using what may be his name, and linked it to a website “HeART for God”, tried to add a comment on a nine-month-old post, “American unbelief on the rise”. I thought it was worth highlighting because it discusses the importance (or lack thereof) of faith (my bold): I see this is an old […]
Last October I reported that cheerleaders in Kountze, Texas, were displaying Christian banners, with slogans from the New Testament, at high-school football games. The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) brought suit against the school district, maintaining, correctly, that such displays violated the First Amendment, which prohibits government endorsement of religion. The case was then working […]
All the reprimands, prayers, chastisements, and denigrations of evolution I receive from religious people recede into obscurity when I get something like this email. It arrived yesterday and is posted with permission ( last name abbreviated by request). I’ve also verified, as far as I can, that this person is real and not pulling some […]
The Pew Research Center just issued a report on Islamic beliefs: “The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society” (a one page summary here). The researchers surveyed over 38,000 people in one-on-one interviews in 39 countries—all countries having more than 10 million Muslims. Unfortunately, they left out Saudi Arabia and Iran, where, they note, “political sensitivities […]
From today’s New York Times: Two days of rioting in Bangladesh by conservative Islamists demanding an antiblasphemy law have left at least 19 people dead, more than 100 wounded and dozens of shops and vehicles destroyed, the official news agency BSS reported on Monday. The violence convulsed a country that was still reeling from a […]
“Natural theology” is the discipline that attempts to find evidence for God in the natural world. The most famous example of this doomed exercise is, of course, the erstwhile use of animal and plant “design” as evidence for God’s beneficence. But Darwin dispelled that in 1859. Earlier, Newton cited the regular and stable orbits of […]
Virtually all godless bloggers held their tongues after the Boston bombing, despite the fact that all the accommodationists and criers of “Islamophobia” wanted us to blame Islam from the get-go. But that was simply not rational given the attacks of people like Timothy McVeigh, the Unaibomber, and Eric Rudolph, the guy who set off the […]
Smelling blood, the media has spent the past two weeks attacking New Atheism, going so far as, in the case of Theo Hobson of The Spectator, to label Richard Dawkins as a “joke figure“, which he most certainly is not. Just two days ago, one Freddy Gray, Hobson’s colleague at the Spectator, piled on with […]
You’ll remember the recent kerfuffle at University College London when a Muslim student group segregated an audience by gender in a debate between Lawrence Krauss and Hamza Tzortzis. Despite some claims that the segregation was “voluntary,” that appears to be untrue, and the Islamic Education and Research Academy has been barred from hosting further events […]
So much for the benign nature of Islam, even in countries as liberal and secularized as Turkey. As the New York Times reports: ISTANBUL — A court here handed down a suspended 10-month jail term on Monday for Fazil Say, an internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist and composer convicted of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in […]
