- It?s a myth that science and religion are incompatible
Says the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Somalia: football fans executed for watching world cup
“Football is an inheritance from the primitive infidels,” said al Shabaab.
- UK: Catholic church launches PR campaign
?It is not easy to convey the richness of the tradition of Catholic thought.” Indeed it is not.
- The Bloody Sunday inquiry
The whole thing.
- Bloody Sunday: the legal arguments
Much will depend on which evidence has survived, and what has perished.
- Bloody Sunday report published
“The conclusions of this report are absolutely clear. There is no doubt. There is nothing equivocal, there are no ambiguities.”
- Murphy O?Connor reflects on child rape problem
“Maybe we have lost part of our moral and spiritual authority?. Ya think?
- Jesus and Mo read their Mary Midgley
The barmaid replies, but they hear not.
- Father, brother plead guilty in Aqsa Parvez murder
They killed her because she didn’t wear the hijab. She was 16.
- Mark Oppenheimer on working for Templeton
Templeton money has done a lot of good, but there is a bias.
- Message from CFI Board of Directors
One account of what’s been happening, and why.
- Karl Giberson says ?sorry?
Notes general lack of charity in vilification of New Atheists. A handsome apology!
- The noble and ancient tradition of moron-baiting
Ben Goldacre on Martin Gardner and some predecessors.
- Touchdown Jesus struck by lightning
Stumpy Jesus now squats on freeway, saluting a pair of semi-trucks.
- Amanda Marcotte on ?feminist? anti-feminists
Sarah Palin is not the first.
- Massimo Pigliucci on Texas education and ideology
The latest disturbing result of a long effort by right wing fundamentalists to undermine public education.
- Hitchens on that speech of Chuck?s
P. Charles surrounds with every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer, and water-diviner within range.
- Widen that division
Oliver Kamm put the matter concisely and well.
Byrnes is not [at] that level*, but his views are reactionary and illiberal. They thereby illustrate a fundamental difference of values within the Left. I’m concerned to widen that division as far as I can.
Same here. I want there to be a vast gulf between the Left that opposes reactionary illiberal views and the “Left” that sucks up to them.
*The level of writing an article titled “Milosevic, prisoner of conscience.”
- It is easy to manipulate memory
It’s important to remember that.
- Pope says priests are a gift to the world
Made no mention of child-rape by priests in Ireland, Germany, Austria, the US and elsewhere.
