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‘Muslim men think they have a God-given right to beat their wives’

Monday, November 10, 2008

SHORTLY before Muslims vandals attacked a London art gallery featuring an exhibition of paintings by Sussex artist Sarah Maple, a gallery in Chicago ran into trouble with an exhibition of photographs by Iranian artist Amir Normandi.
We learned of the incident at the weekend when we looking for a picture to illustrate a story from the [...]

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Time to panic, you fundie freaks!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

ON November 4, Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, was elected president.
On November 5, these were the winning numbers in the Illinois Lottery’s Evening Pick 3 game:

Observes the Friendly Atheist:
If I were a religious man, I’d be freaking out right about now…
Instead, I’ll just smirk at the thought that somewhere a religious man is probably [...]

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How an Amazonian tribe turned a missionary into an atheist

Saturday, November 8, 2008

A RIVETING and hugely satisfying report on BBC Radio 4 today tells the story of a missionary who was charged by an American missionary group with taking the Gospel to the little understood Pirahãs tribe in the Amazon – only to realise how ridiculous his faith in Christianity was.
Daniel Everett, 57, a linguist in the [...]

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Evangelist Billy Graham won’t be bending Barack Obama’s ear

Saturday, November 8, 2008

ALL together now …. Awww!
Ailing veteran US evangelist Billy Graham, 90 and not long for this world, is not best pleased with Barack Obama’s liberal agenda, particular in regard to abortion and gay rights and he will not be counselling the President-elect.
His evangelist son Franklin Graham said in an interview that his father’s mind remains [...]

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Superstition and science unite to produce the Jewberry

Friday, November 7, 2008

WHEN the latest in mobile phone technology is pressed into service to further the ends of religion, one can only despair for the future of humankind.
The latest “breakthrough” – aimed at serving the needs of devout Orthodox Jews who find it imperative to pray three times a day to a deity, who, over the ages, [...]

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Any excuse for a display of rage

Friday, November 7, 2008

A CHRISTIAN and his 18-year-old daughter have been charged with blasphemy under Article 295 B of the Pakistan Penal Code after they were threatened with death by gangs of marauding Muslims.
The authorities allege that Gulsher Masih, and his daughter, Sandal, tore pages from the Koran on October 9 in the village of Tehsil Chak Jhumra, [...]

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