Pediatrician refuses to treat gay couple's newborn child. Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all. Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support.
Betrayal seems more likely. The Islamic State, apostasy and 'real Muslims' - Freethought Nation. Many people today deny that the violent and fanatical Islamic State or ISIL/ISIS is actually Islamic.
Appalled by its horrendous crimes against humanity, political and religious leaders and members of the public alike have been scrambling to claim that “the Islamic State isn’t really Islamic.” Muslims who deny ISIL’s members as “real Muslims” are engaging in what is called in Islam takfir, the act of one Muslim accusing another Muslim of apostasy or being an “infidel.” Ten Things Christians Accidentally Tell Me About Themselves. Two Different Pauls – A Fabricated Apostle?
Saul of Tarsus – a witness for Jesus?
One is informed by Acts that St Paul's early day stance was as "Saul, the Christian persecutor". Yet if Saul really was a vigilante for orthodox Judaism at the time of Stephen's stoning (Acts 7.58-8.3), becoming the chief persecutor of Christians, no less – one wonders just where was Saul, not long before, when a supposed radical rabbi called Jesus was stirring up whole towns and villages? Paul's role as religious policeman seems not to have awakened until shortly after the godman's death. Six and a Half Reasons Why the Bible Is Not Divinely Inspired. The 12 worst ideas religion has unleashed on the world. These six superpowers are why atheists are #winning. The Fascinating Origins of Religion — and Why It's Deeply Intertwined With Violence. Meet the honor brigade, an organized campaign to silence debate on Islam. By Asra Q.
Nomani January 16 at 8:01 PM. The Reality of Islam. The case for mocking religion. On Wednesday, gunmen attacked the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12.
The magazine was known for printing images of the prophet Mohammed, including the 2005 cartoons that originally ran in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, leading to widespread violence. In February 2006, Christopher Hitchens addressed that controversy in his inimitable way. His article is reprinted below: As well as being a small masterpiece of inarticulacy and self-abnegation, the statement from the State Department about this week's international Muslim pogrom against the free press was also accidentally accurate. "Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images, as anti-Christian images, or any other religious belief.
" Thus the hapless Sean McCormack, reading painfully slowly from what was reported as a prepared government statement. Religion’s sinister fairy tale: Extremists, the religious right, Reza Aslan and the fight for reason. I would like to thank Reza Aslan.
In his recent Salon rebuttal to denunciations (including mine) of religion put forward by people the media has come to call New Atheists, he resurrects a word the late Christopher Hitchens, now three years departed, used to describe himself: antitheist. (Aslan even provides the link to a relevant Hitchens text from long ago that is well worth reading.) Atheists Can Go To Heaven? Did Pope Francis Say Something New? Some folks in the mainstream media are worked up because Pope Francis actually said that an atheist might go to heaven.
His remarks, from an article in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, are being hyped as an example of Francis’s striking out on a new path, one different from that of his papal predecessors. Here is a story from the UK Telegraph, linked from the Drudge Report. This is the relevant portion quoted in the story: The Pope wrote: “The question for those who do not believe in God is to follow their own conscience. Michael Sherlock Author. Truth 1: The word ‘Islam’ doesn’t stem from the Arabic word, ‘Al Salaam’ (Peace), but from the word, ‘Al-Silim’ (Surrender/Submission) and Arabic words have only one single root, meaning, Islam cannot mean both.
This is also further evidenced by the multiple verses throughout the Qur’an that encourage actual physical violence to make infidels submit to Islam. Surah 2:191, 193, 218, 3:151, 4:89….. Truth 2: Muhammad’s tribe (Quraysh Tribe) first funded Islam by way of armed robbery, known as ‘ghazawa¯t’ in Arabic, therefore, the earthly/fiscal origins of Islam are criminal and corrupt. Truth 3: The original authors of the Qur’an, whoever they were, plagiarised large portions of the Bible and Jewish and Christian theology, to create Islam. A NEW APPROACH TO THE CHRIST MYTH – NO REASON FOR JESUS.
Most people attempting to disprove the literal existence of Jesus Christ (mythicists) do so by demonstrating the plethora of parallels that exist between the Christ myth and the various earlier myths which were in circulation in and around the regions in which the Gospels were first produced.
They point to the twice-born giver of wine and life, Dionysius, the resurrected Osiris, or the Son of God, Horus, who was one with his father, among many other examples. Mythicists also demonstrate, with solid evidence, the philosophical origins of Jesus’ alleged revelations, which we now know were first penned by more ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Persians, for example. The purpose of this small essay is to approach the Christ myth from another angle, one which has been, by and large, overlooked. The Reason for Jesus Christ. Jesus Never Existed Says New Report That Finds No Mention Of Christ In 126 Historical Texts. Jesus never existed.
HOW CHRISTIANITY WAS INVENTED: THE TRUTH! Emperor Constantine Christianity is a copycat religion created by Emperor Constantine (for political purposes) based upon a myth (The Persian savior god Mithra, crucified 600 B.C. ? 400 B.C.?) Beheading in Islam. Details Written by Star and Martin Beheading infidels is right there in the Qur'an, it is not a modern invention or interpolation. Reply by Martin Fighting and killing non-believers is not something alien that has been added onto Islam by fanatics.
Jesus might have said that he came to bring a sword but he was never seen wielding one. Atheism in Hinduism. Cārvāka. Cārvāka (Sanskrit: चार्वाक), also known as Lokāyata, is a system of Indian philosophy that assumes various forms of materialism, philosophical skepticism and religious indifference.[1] Cārvāka is classified as a heterodox Hindu (Nāstika) system.[2][3][4] It is characterized as a materialistic and atheistic school of thought. While this branch of Indian philosophy is today not considered to be part of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, some describe it as an atheistic or materialistic philosophical movement within Hinduism.[5][6] Name[edit] Etymologically, Cārvāka means "agreeable speech" or "sweet talkers" (cāru – agreeable, pleasant or sweet and vāk – speech) and Lokāyata signifies "prevalence in the world" (loka – world and āyata – prevalent).[10][11][12][13]
Pictures - Atheists receive death threats on Fox News Facebook page - National Humanist. True Will vs. Conscious Will: An Exploration of Aleister Crowley's Concepts of True Will and Conscious Will and its Possible Applications to A Midsummer Nights Dream, Marison, and Wicked. Hebrew Bible: Plagiarized Mythology and Defaced Monotheism. Dr. The destructive myth about religion that Americans disproportionately believe. This article originally appeared on AlterNet. This week, Pew Research Center published the results of a survey conducted among 40,080 people in 40 countries between 2011 and 2013. The survey asked a simple question: Is belief in God essential to morality? Final Reply to Come Reason Ministries – Concerning my Violent Christianity Meme. Secular Buddhist Association. Secular Buddhism. Secular Buddhism—sometimes also referred to as agnostic Buddhism, Buddhist agnosticism, ignostic Buddhism, atheistic Buddhism, Buddhist atheism, or Buddhist secularism—is a broad term for an emerging form of Buddhism and secular spirituality that is based on humanist, skeptical, and/or agnostic values, as well as pragmatism and (often) naturalism, rather than religious (or more specifically supernatural or paranormal) beliefs.
Secular Buddhists interpret the teachings of the Buddha and the Buddhist texts in a rationalist and often evidentialist manner, considering the historical and cultural contexts of the times in which the Buddha lived and the various suttas, sutras and tantras were written. The Engineer Who Said The Ark Of The Covenant Was A Giant Capacitor. Bible Atrocities: Atrocities in the Bible. Cannabis linked to Biblical healing. Jesus Christ and his apostles may have used a cannabis-based anointing oil to help cure people with crippling diseases, it has been claimed.
Researchers in the United States say the oil used in the early days of the Christian church contained a cannabis extract called kaneh-bosem. Conscious evolution. Paul The First Heretic. Excerpts from 'Jesus lived in India', by Holger Kersten. THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF PAUL.