I enjoyed this, picked up from The Guardian today: a quick rebuttal from The Thinking Atheist to the top ten creationist ‘arguments’, encompassing: carbon dating, proving evolution, monkeys, the human eye, atheism = religion, scientists who believe, god and the…
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Pastor la vista
Do you remember the pastor Terry Jones? You know, the leader of a small church in Florida who became international news back in September when he threatened to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11? Remember…
Fisking Galloway
And what better reason for coming out of the blogging cave than to froth and rant at an old foe: Mr George Galloway. I was most surprised to read this piece by him in the Daily Record. Not for the content…
Reasons to hate the Catholic Church, part 4,678
It would be fair to say I have no time for religion. Actually, that’s a massive understatement. It would be correct to say that I despise religion. For the lazy and child-like explanation of the world and the universe. For…
Ave Sharia
I find it difficult to believe that Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, had no idea of the furore he would create when, in an interview on Radio 4, he posited that the adoption of Sharia law in the…
An assault on freedom of expression
The chocolate Jesus exhibit has been cancelled following an orchestrated campaign by the Catholic League, who called the piece an “assault on Christianity”. The league, which boasts some 330,000 members, bombarded the hotel due to host the event with complaints,…
Sweet Jesus!
An art gallery in New York City has stirred up controversy with its latest exhibit: a naked Jesus made entirely of milk chocolate. Predictably, some Christian groups are outraged by this stunt – conveniently happening over the Easter period –…
Fundamentalists on the march
It’s always heartening to see a group of religious warriors – walking testaments to their God’s message of love, peace and tolerance, remember – up in arms lest a law be passed that would forbid them from discriminating against anyone…
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Caveat lector. This is a rather rambling piece.
As anyone who has ever tried to do so will attest, writing a blog can be hard work sometimes. You have to juggle the desire to write with other commitments and there are times when there is loads going on,…
Citizen Sane 
Oh, the Devil will make work for idle hands to do…
Allow me to introduce you to Theo Hobson, an occasional contributor to the pigsty that is Comment Is Free. Theo announced in a post a couple of days ago, without a trace of irony, that he “believes in Satan”. How…
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