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Ritually-slaughtered meat? Not on my damn plate!

Sunday, June 1, 2008

EVER since witnessing – as a 12-year-old – the sickening slaughter of calf by a rabbi who slit the animal’s throat and impassively watched it in its death throes, I have sworn off religiously-slaughtered meat, and have gone to great lengths to avoid all kosher and halal produce.
So you can imagine my disgust when – [...]

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Not much of a believer - a world exclusive interview with Ophelia Benson

Friday, May 16, 2008

OPHELIA Benson, co-author of Why Truth Matters and The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense, associate editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine, is perhaps best known for the website Butterflies and Wheels, where since 2003 she has taken delight in verbally scourging, flaying, and generally humiliating any relativist or religionist unfortunate enough to catch her eye. Thousands of [...]

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Laughing religion off the planet - an interview with Pat Condell

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

With over 5 million hits on YouTube, and another couple of million on LiveLeak, Pat Condell is a leading voice of atheism on the internet. He is also a stand-up comedian, a playwright, a former lumberjack, a talk-show panelist, and a subscriber to The Freethinker.

We tracked the blaspheming infidel down to a garden shed in [...]

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