Atheism needs to become more sophisticated

Given the intricacies of the human mind, dialogue can be quite fascinating. Here we have Terry Eagleton being interviewed on Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, two of the current ueber-atheists.
Eagleton could have a lot in common with them given his Marxist background that could make him see any religion, while having historical relevance, an illusion. [...]

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Questions & answers on the Iran crisis

July 08, 2009
By Stephen Shalom, Thomas Harrison, Joanne Landy, and Jesse Lemisch
Source: Campaign for Peace and Democracy
View online here
(July 7, 2009) — Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at [...]

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Children’s rights – arranged marriages between young girls and older men

In the West it would be seen as a dirty old man having sex with with under-age kids, and he would be in for pedophilia. But in parts of the Muslim world the same practice is encouraged by ‘god’.
There certainly is cause to protect cultural tradition, but as everything in life changes, some encrustations need [...]

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Analysis of the Iran uprising and its aftermath

The Iranian uprising crosses all classes, and it’s neither the result of internet access (especially Twitter) nor CIA involvement, argues Reese Erlich, journalist and author of The Iran Agenda.

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Gay Bash By Mélange Lavonne

It’s been around for a couple of years and had 114,086 views so far, but it can’t be watched often enough: a song by Mélange Lavonne against gay bashing and Christian hate-filled homophobia. Fictional character Kevin, Mélange’s friend, becomes a victim of a hate crime. Mélange’s confronts those including the “Church” [...]

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French prosecutor seeks abolishment of Scientology

By REUTERS
Published: June 15, 2009
PARIS (Reuters) – A French prosecutor on Monday recommended a Paris court should dissolve the Church of Scientology’s French branch when it rules on charges of fraud against the organization.
Registered as a religion in the United States, with celebrity members such as actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Scientology enjoys no [...]

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American Christians fund illegal Jewish settlers

… and therefore support illegal land grabs, racism, oppression, murder and ethnic cleansing. And all in the name of their god and his supposed son, who in theory loved all people. If Christians actually would live up to their beliefs, they would support the Palestinians – just as Jesus is said to have taken sides [...]

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Three militants: Islamist, Christianist, Atheist

An unholy trinity
[Via Atheist Cartoons]

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Religion: how martyrdom makes people believe

If you wanna make people believe in your message, inflict some form of suffering or deprivation upon yourself – or at least make them think you do so. It’s a powerful strategy religions have applied for thousands of years.
An analysis of behavioural evolution, published recently by Joseph Henrich, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of [...]

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WorldNetDaily poll: only 22% condemn the murder of abortion supporter Dr. Tiller

From WorldNetDaily’s unscientific internet poll, headlined, “A VIEW TO A KILL: What’s your reaction to the murder of abortionist George Tiller?”

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Christian Terrorism

This post was written and published on the Atheist Revolution blog in March 2009, 2 1/2 months before the appaling murder of Dr. Tiller a couple of days ago. I’ve got noyhing to add – the article says it all.
I was motivated, at least in part, to start Atheist Revolution because I was becoming increasingly [...]

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Hate tweets support murder of pro-abortionist Dr. Tiller

While I am used to it, I’m nevertheless always surprised how Christians, whose fervour should lead them to offer their other cheek rather than seeking out another’s eye or tooth, leave alone a person’s life, can actually justify their hatred, spite and lust to murder. And since they’re not the only ones, the killing of [...]

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Boy chosen by Dalai Lama turns back on Buddhist order

As a toddler, he was put on a throne and worshipped as by monks who treated him like a god. But the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader has caused consternation – and some embarrassment – for Tibetan Buddhists by turning his back on the order that had such [...]

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Religious insanity – Christian video’s call to action to save Western civilisation from Muslim takeover

The West’s Racist attacks on Islam are part of the daily news feeds – from the Iraq war to backing Israel’s ethnic cleansing strategies against Palestinians, casting the wide net of labelling the innocent ‘terrorists’, refusing permission to build Islamic schools in Western cities, or providing a matrix for violent attacks [...]

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The fatal consequences of religious books

… well, at least of most of them. We are all familiar with the millions having been, still are and will be killed in the name of Jesus, Allah, various Hindu gods and many other religious figure heads past and present (curiously: I haven’t heard of mass murder in the name of Buddha). The Judaeo-Christian [...]

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Witches owed an apology

The Catholic church has a lot to apologise for, especially the ways it always dealt with dissenters and other faiths, and the crusades and inquisition are probably the most glaring examples of the barbarism this religion allowed itself to sink into despite proselytizing the virtue of selflessly loving your neighbour. Starhawk posted the following article [...]

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Pope Benedict XVI claims that condoms make Aids crisis worse

Pope Benedict XVI said that the distribution of condoms ‘aggravates’ the Aids crisis, as he embarked on his first trip to Africa.
Once there was such thing as papal infallibility. But the Pope blew that myth recently himself, and not just once but twice – by having to apologise first to Islamic [...]

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Neturei Karta – anti-Zionist orthodox Jews

It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but while Zionism does have the support of the overwhelming majority of the Jewish religious and secular community (with nearly full support from Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements), there are indeed a number of religious groups who are strictly anti-Zionist: they do not support the existence of the [...]

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Hindu Temple in Helensburg/Wollongong

As mentioned earlier, on our visit to the Wollongong beaches we dropped in on the Sri Venkateswara Temple at Helensburg (north of Wollongong), apparently the largest Hindu temple complex in the southern hemisphere. In its current form, it was consecrated in February 2004 amidst chanting of hymns and prayers, and dozens of Hindu priests performing sacred rituals at a ceremony attended by [...]

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The Unitarian Jihad – a call to stand up for thoughtfulness & reason

I found this marvelous manifesto at The Unapologetic Mathematician (thanks Harry!), and he/she also mentioned Terry Tao’s call for reasoned discussion (which unfortunately I couldn’t find), as well as Susan’s atheism post, including some thoughts on atheism vs. agnosticism.
Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one [...]

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