A few weeks ago, comedy writer Ariane Sherine wrote a piece in the Guardian expressing her view that Londoners were being forced to face disturbing religious messages when they trundled half-awake to work each morning because Christians had paid to have quotes from the bible displayed on buses.
She wrote:
There was also a web address on [...]
Archive for the ‘Faith’ Category
Godless Bus
Posted in Existential, Faith, Human Rights, Religion, tagged Ariane Sherine, atheism, atheist, bendy bus, bus, Christianity, Jon Worth, Muslim, pledge on July 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Virgins and The Grapes
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Terrorism, tagged Muslim, women, Christians, Islam, rape, suicide bomber, Arabic, virgins, gay, adultery, Koran, vagina, Yeshi Girma, Hussain Osman, Abu Wardeh, reward, paradise, Christoph Luxenberg, erection, grapes, terrorist, martyr, immorality on June 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday a British court convicted the wife of a failed suicide bomber for failing to tell police about his plans for an attack on the London underground system. A jury in London found 32-year-old Yeshi Girma guilty of failing to provide information before her husband Hussain Osman and others attempted to set off explosions [...]
What Would You Say?
Posted in Existential, Faith, Internet, Relationships, Religion, tagged anti-Christ, apocalyptic, Christian, email, Rapture on June 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
When the roll is called up yonder, I won’t be there. Which is good, because I’m not too sure what I should have said in the emails I was meant to leave behind.
I was amused last week by a story from Paul Sims on the New Humanist Blog about a really valuable new use [...]
Dubious Claims
Posted in Faith, Government, Religion, Society, tagged psychics, astrologers, mediums, spiritualists, Trades Descriptions Act, prosperity gospel, snake handlers, churches, sermons on June 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In An Unclear Future, I wrote:
Those who defend horoscopes as harmless fun never explain what is harmless or funny about promoting a con trick which preys on ignorance and fear. Any pharmaceuticals manufacturer that promoted a birth control pill with no demonstrable effect on fertility would be prosecuted in the UK under the Trades Descriptions [...]
The Sheet And The Collar
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, tagged Vatican, Muslim, women, Roman Catholic, rape, priests, excommunication, Virgin, nurse, bride, engineer, Roubaix, Lille, anal, hymen, hymenoplasty, damnation, Constantine, ordination, female, sheet, collar, purity, S&M, vagina, testicles on June 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It’s been a bad week for women, and therefore a bad week for humanity too. (”So what’s new?” some of you may be asking.)
Doubtless there are more atrocious stories than the ones below (for example, accounts of rape and mutilation and oppression in far distant countries), but the two which penetrated my radar were [...]
Dangerous Learning
Posted in Education, Faith, Language, Religion, tagged Add new tag, Assemblies of God, Baptists, Christianity, Episcopalians, Gene Expression, Hemant Mehta, learning, Lutherans, Methodists, Pentecostals, Razib on May 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
What’s the point of education?
When I used to be a teacher trying to inspire teenagers with the English literature, I frequently encountered the questions: “Why do we have to do this? What has poetry got to do with me? What’s the point if I know what I am going to do (plumbing/hairdressing)? [...]
God in School
Posted in Education, Faith, Human Rights, Religion, tagged assembly, Church of England, compulsion, force, hymns, hypocrisy, prayer, Religious Trends, Roman Catholics, schools, sham, statisticians, worship on May 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In America, apparently, many people say they want it but can’t get it, and in the UK many don’t want it, but can’t get rid of it - god in school, that is.
As a school pupil I had to endure it every day - the compulsory hymn and routine prayers. Just imagine it, 600 [...]
De-conversion
Posted in Faith, Religion, tagged de-conversion on May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
There’s a really interesting post by Kieran Bennett at a faithless blogger analysing over 100 accounts of why people left their Christian faith. Interestingly hypocritical churches came fourth in the list.
The Living Dead
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Morality, tagged baptism, baptize, Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-day Saints, dead, digitizing, genealogists, Holocaust, IGI genealogy, International Genealogy Index, Jews, LDS, microfilming, Mormons, proxy, Roman Catholics, Vatican on May 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Some things are just too remarkable to ignore.
I stumbled across a fact that had somehow managed to pass me by until just recently. As someone who used to be in the Christian camp, I thought I knew a fair bit about the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-day Saints (LDS), more commonly known [...]
Esteem Me!
Posted in Faith, Humanity, Language, Philosophy, Religion, tagged agnostics, atheists, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, dignity, esteem, hogwash, humanism, mystery, respect, Roman Catholic, secularists, Westminster Cathedral on May 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s official. You have to show me more deep respect. The Roman Catholic Archbishop has said so!
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor called for more understanding and appreciation between believers and non-believers, urging Christians to treat atheists and agnostics with “deep esteem”. In a lecture given at Westminster Cathedral, which comes after a spate of [...]
