Pope Francis reaches out to atheists and agnostics. Indian cult kills children for goddess. A painted image of the Hindu goddess Kali is propped up against a stone in the dirt, her long red tongue goading terrified worshippers into submission.
From one of her eight flailing arms a severed head dangles, her neck is adorned by a necklace of bleached human skulls. There are bloodstains on the cracked wall behind the terrible postcard-size image and, around the dark room, splattered gore on the heavy wooden furniture. These dark marks bear witness to a child sacrificed in the name of the abominable goddess. Through the doorway, in the distance, colourfully dressed women are bent double, toiling in the fields, their faces worn and wrinkled from the sun, their hands cracked from digging at the dry earth from dawn until dusk.
Public Theology: Falwell Says It is Anti-American to Oppose War. Leader of the religious right exposes his extremist views.
If you question the Iraq war you are anti-American, he says. Falwell gets big money from wealthy Republican. The article below was found on the website of Jerry Falwell, a key leader of the religious right, on March 25, 2002. It indicates the extremist nature of his views as he attacks "hollywood leftists" and Tom Daschle, the Democratic Senate Minority Leader.
Any one who doesn't support the Iraq war is "anti-American", he says. Dark_christian: Christian college forbids eye contact. Religious News Service accepts funds to provide more atheist articles. Are They Really ‘Bad Atheists’? Sharing a lift with Richard Dawkins. There is considerable controversy in the blogosphere about Richard Dawkins and his apparent views on women.
Of sexism and atheism: Richard Dawkins gets in trouble with feminists. What an Atheist Ought to Stand For. As atheists know, you can be good without God. By Jerry A.
Coyne Updated 8/1/2011 12:40 PM One cold Chicago day last February, I watched a Federal Express delivery man carry an armful of boxes to his truck. Atheism+ » Blag Hag. Yesterday I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I finally hit publish on “How I Unwittingly Infiltrated the Boy’s Club & Why It’s Time for a New Wave of Atheism.”
Shirley Manson - Celebrity Atheist List. From Celebrity Atheist List Recording Artist Shirley Manson is the lead singer in the alternative/rock band Garbage.
In a September 1998 Rolling Stone article titled "Spirit In The Sky" by Elissa Blake, Manson talks about growing up in a religious family: Removing the linchpin of Christian hate. True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of Atheism: Tom Gilson, Carson Weitnauer: Amazon.com. Do atheists have a sexual harassment problem? As skeptics, atheists and humanists prepare to gather for their largest meeting in Las Vegas this weekend, attendance by women is expected to be down significantly.
Officials for The Amazing Meeting, or TAM, said Wednesday (July 11) that women would make up 31 percent of the 1,200 conference attendees, down from 40 percent the year before. A month before the conference, pre-registration was only 18 percent women, organizers said. The explanations are many — the bad economy, that women, as caregivers, are less able to get away, and that more men than women identify as skeptics, whose worldview rejects the supernatural and focuses on science and rationality.
Jim Al-Khalili: 'I'm a cuddly atheist. I don't need to tell my mum her faith is stupid' - Profiles - People. But this year might be a little more fraught than most.
Mr Khalili's mother is still a devout, church-going Christian but, next week, her 40-year-old son will become the next president of the British Humanist Association, the ever-expanding organisation for, in its own words, "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs". "She felt somewhat disappointed that I had taken on this role," he admits. The 5 Most Awful Atheists. August 3, 2012 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Richard Dawkins, your privilege is showing. Thankfully another Pharyngulite said exactly what I was thinking: Did you just make the argument that, since worse things are happening somewhere else, we have no right to try to fix things closer to home?
And that's when you tried to backpedal with a clarification, but just ended up digging your hole even deeper. Richard Dawkins and male privilege. Over the weekend, a full-blown scandal erupted in the skeptical movement atheist and skeptical communities* over sexism and attitudes about sexual harassment. It started with a fairly straightforward story about a clueless man putting a woman in an uncomfortable situation.
The conversation about it was interesting, to say the least. An important point that came up multiple times is that many men do not truly understand what women go through in such situations. The Volokh Conspiracy - Discrimination Against Atheists: I've often argued that it's improper for the government to discriminate against religious people and institutions because of their religiosity (see, for instance, my Equal Treatment Is Not Establishment article). But it's equally improper for the government to discriminate against irreligious people and institutions because of their lack of religiosity. The Atheist Experience TV Show.