Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
John Zuhlsdorf, a catholic priest who blogs over at Fr. Z’s Blog, has made the most bizarre claim I’ve ever seen. He starts out with … Homosexuals often commit the most physically brutal crimes that the police see. And as you might expact, that opening line by itself drew a lot of twitter attention, so … Read more
George Zimmerman thinks that God planned for him to shoot and kill Trayvon Martin … … and apparently the jury agreed because he walked free from a Florida courtroom late on Saturday after a jury acquitted the neighbourhood watch leader of murdering an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in a case that played into the national debates about … Read more
The Islamc month of Ramadan has started. This is a period when Muslims fast and pray for an entire month. OK, first lets clear up a few items, here is a very brief list of things that sometimes confuse non-Muslims: Yes, they are going to fast for a whole month … but only when the … Read more
I must admit that Giles Fraser has a rather good gift for calling things out as they are. He describes his time at the general Synod as follows … Dante’s vision of hell was colourful, of course. But for the real deal, look no further than the General Synod of the Church of England. I sat … Read more
There is a story in the Times of India about a new search engine that has been launched in Pakistan called “Halalgoogling”. Basically it does a search using Google or Bing, then filters out un-Islamic content in order to render Islamic approved results. I tried it out, and sure enough it does what it claims … Read more
Victoria Brittain, former associate foreign editor of the Guardian, writes an article in which she claims that, Abu Qatada, the religious thug that we finally managed to deport, is a jolly nice chap and has been rather unfortunate to have had a bit of bad press … The home secretary, prime minister, mayor of London and countless … Read more