Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Often when debating believers, a rather common tact taken is to hear something akin to the following declaration, “OK, you as an Atheist can do whatever you want, but I much prefer decency as defined in the Bible“. That of course is the cue to point out that the Bible endorses genocide and slavery as … Read more
One of the most popular apps around is YouVersion. This is a free Bible app that contains over 700 different translations and has been downloaded by 115 million people, so is perhaps one of the most popular apps out there. Well yes, so there are lots of religious people, but then you knew that anyway. Now … Read more
The fact that I need to add the word “Satire” to the title tells you that it is in fact very challenging to deploy Satire within a Saudi context. In fact, the pronouncements and actions of the various clerics make it almost impossible to discern the line between the things that are satire and the … Read more
In years gone by (since 2005), the students group known as “Atheist Agenda” at the University of Texas at San Antonio has offered to exchange bibles and qurans for free porn in the student free speech area on campus – their point being that religions are more damaging than Hustler magazine. In once sense it worked, in that it … Read more
Yep, Halloween has been and gone, and so if you were giving out awards for the best of the season this year, what would be your winners? My award goes to the “God” graveyard done by the Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. They wrote about it here and posted some … Read more
Now this video is indeed quite disturbing. It comes from an Islamic conference during a Q&A session. At one point a chap stands up and asks for the camera to be pointed at the audience, then proceeds to ask a few questions: “Hands up all who are Muslims”, and most hands go up. “Now hands … Read more