Greetings on Thanksgiving Day!  I think we in the West can be thankful for being able to express our opinions freely, without being arrested for them. All opinions are welcome on this blog.  Personally I am thankful that the rationalists among us are at last fighting back against superstition and ignorance of science. The rise …
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Disbelief now rivals the great faiths in numbers and influence. Never before has religion faced such enormous levels of disbelief, or faced a hazard as powerful as that posed by modernity. How is organized religion going to regain the true, choice-based initiative when only one of them is growing, and it is doing so with …
In a book review in the Times Literary Supplement of September 14th, Emmanuel Sivan says that warfare is a major precept of Islam, but a collective, not an individual one. The community, or part of it, has to be engaged in combating non-believers; it isn’t up to self-appointed small groups. Jihad is essentially offensive and …
How have the so-called “Christian” conservatives managed to monopolize “values”, morality” and the “family”? I am a values voter. I believe in honesty, integrity, consideration towards others, and civilized discourse among those who disagree. I couldn’t care less what people do in the privacy of the bedrooms as long as it doesn’t affect my children …
60 % of British men, 50% per cent of women and 20% of primary school girls are expected to be obese by mid-century, and this will cost 45 billion pounds a year if nothing is done. Come on, Libertarians, do you think this is acceptable, and if not what would you do about it?
