It’s a long documentary so let’s just say the short answer (at least in my view) is: yes! Given what day it is today, I can’t help but think about the fourteen female engineering students killed twenty-four years ago today. They weren’t murdered for religious reasons. But as part of my thoughts on this sad day […]
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Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 5 – Out of Nearly 40,000 Denomination of Christianity You Picked The “Right” One (You Should Try The Lottery Next)
Not sure how accurate the claim of 38,000 denominations of Christianity is but whether you’re talking about 40, 400, 4000 or 40,000 denominations, the point remains the same. (And that doesn’t even take into account other religions, major and minor, over the years.)
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 3 – “Take The Risk of Thinking For Yourself…”
Christopher Hitchens is one of the patron saints of atheists. (Er, there’s probably a better way to describe him!) 😉
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 2 – Music Monday – “I know the Good Book’s good/Because the Good Book says it’s good/I know the Good Book knows it’s good/Because a really good book would”
I suspect Tim Minchin will be making up the content of all my Music Monday posts for Atheist Advent! 😉 “The Good Book” – Tim Minchin
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 1 – Introduction
In past years, I’ve often done a series of posts during Christmas week about atheism/religion/the Christmas holidays that are (hopefully) educational, humourous, thought-provoking or occasionally maybe even all of the above. Pace opened the first window on his Lego Advent calendar today and that made me think that the concept of Advent “a season observed in many Western Christian churches as […]
Friday Fun Link – A Great Convocation Speech by Tim Minchin
God, I love Tim Minchin! (Er, never mind that I said that given the topic of this post!) 😉 This convocation speech is especially great…
This isn’t where I got the name for my Head Tale blog…
…but I kinda wish it was! 😉 Atheism and religion are like two sides of a coin..one prefers to use heads, other relies on tales (This quote was posted to a thread on Quora about favourite atheist jokes. The actual story of how this site got its name, which I may have told before, is […]
Why Is the UK Losing Its Religion?
“Because they’ve thought about it.” But the times they are a-changing, and if the world wars of the 20th century began to erode religious faith in the west, then the proliferation of the world wide web has only exacerbated that process. “Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever, and this […]
*Please* Don’t Believe In Psychics. Please! Pretty Please!!!
My life has developed over the years to a point where I endeavour to lead my life and make my decisions from a place that’s focused on using evidence, science, skepticism and facts to determine how I understand and interact with the world. This is the culmination of many things coming together – my lifelong […]