For the believing Christian, death is no big deal.… Read the rest
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
Sholto Byrnes criticizes secularism on the left.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFor all the talk of tolerance, there are some who believe that certain subjects simply cannot be aired. And foremost among them is God.… Read the rest
Frontline’s ‘Prisoners of Silence’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDouble-blind testing show it’s the ‘facilitator’ who is typing.… Read the rest
Steiner racism and state funding
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAt Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship ‘special pre-election seminar’ … Read the rest
BBC boss says Islam should be treated differently
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlso says his Christian beliefs guide his judgments.… Read the rest
David Colquhoun on the problem of causality
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.… Read the rest
Being a new atheist means not saying you’re sorry
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt seems as if in order to be a ‘good’ atheist one has to feel bad about not believing in god.… Read the rest
Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson3 January: I am afraid. 14 January: I may not go to school again. … Read the rest
Free Speech and its Postmodern Adversaries
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”… Read the rest
Communal justice in Bolivia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCases include death sentences for women accused of adultery and the beating, stoning, hanging, and burning of an elected official accused of corruption.… Read the rest
Pitcairn Island: 6 Found Guilty Of Sex Abuse
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSix men were convicted of charges including rape and indecent assault in trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on Pitcairn.… Read the rest
Stepping Stones Nigeria on Child Witches
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAn increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”… Read the rest
John Hartung on ‘Love thy Neighbor’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThy neighbor is not everyone, it is thy group.… Read the rest
Submission in advance
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA gigantic taboo zone has been created, repeatedly reiterated and expanded with the well-intentioned collaboration of Western intellectuals.… Read the rest
IHEU on superstition and witchcraft in Africa
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAttacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.… Read the rest
Lawyers for victims say pope obstructed justice.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIn 2001 Ratzinger issued an order ensuring the church’s investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret.… Read the rest
Constitution? What constitution?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonArticle 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”… Read the rest
Remember Hazlitt
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMichael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.… Read the rest
Peter Van Inwagen on Clifford’s Sentence
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIs It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?… Read the rest
18 good ideas
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTahir Aslam Gora suggests an outline for the new Islam.… Read the rest