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Daily Archives: July 13, 2009
Did the Irish Just Lose Their Right to Free Speech with Regard to Criticism of Religion?
It appears so. Ireland now has an unambiguous and explicit blasphemy law, passed on Friday, and its language is chilling. Staks Rosch has all the details here. Below are the Blasphemy Clauses of the Defamation Bill. Let me emphasize again … Continue reading
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Tagged atheist, blasphemy, Christianity, freedom, freedom of speech, human rights, Islam, Judaism, religious freedom, Richard Dawkins, the Bible, women's rights
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Non-Zero? Are Religion and Atheism Morally Neutral?
Below, agnostic Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God, discusses religion and atheism with atheist John Horgan. Wright has a rather novel view of religion and atheism, seeing both of them as morally neutral, with their “demonic” sides only … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, Christianity, ecology, evolution, God, Islam, Judaism, religion, robert wright, scarcity, zero sum games
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Twitter Meets the Rhetorical Wars over Religion? Are You a Clicheatheist or a Clichetheist?
Actually, I hope that you’re neither, but I would coin these terms for atheists and theists who engage in combative and absolutist rhetoric with each other, and do so unself-critically, without empathy, and with an impatience for nuance, using what psychologist Robert Lifton … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, cliche, clicheatheist, clichetheist, fundamentalism, rhetoric, theist, thought terminating cliches
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