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Charles Darwin Gets the Hook to Jane Austen on British Currency!
__________ Charles Darwin has been on the ten pound bank-note for over a decade, but now The Guardian reports that Jane Austen is about to take a turn there: Austen will take her place on the £10 note in 2017, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Charles Darwin, England, evolution, feminism, Jane Austen, science, women's equality, women's rights
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Christopher Hitchens to Kate Middleton: Save Your Soul! Run!
At Slate, Christopher Hitchens sums up the royal wedding of Kate Middleton to Prince William perfectly. He sees it as a form of sadomasochistic theatre in which a human victim, in this case Prince William’s bride, has been added to an altar … Continue reading
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Tagged abraham and isaac, atheist, Christopher Hitchens, England, fairy tales, fishbowls, iphigenia, kate middleton, love, public relations, royal wedding, the oresteia
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What is the Penalty for Apostasy Under Islamic Law (Sharia)?
Richard Dawkins wrangles, after a good deal of effort, a direct answer from a talk show participating imam: Good work, Richard Dawkins!
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Tagged atheism, atheist, authoritarian religion, authoritarianism, England, herderianism, Islam, muhammad, Muslims, religion, Richard Dawkins, sharia
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“Jews Look Like Monkeys and Pigs”: Medieval Cultism and Antisemitism in British Islamic Schools
Out of 30,000 schools in Great Britain, 160 are Muslim faith schools. Below is a deeply troubling BBC report on what some of these schools are teaching: So this is what happens when you set out to live a segregated and parallel … Continue reading
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The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident: The Testimony of Sgt. James Penniston and Col. Charles Halt (USAF)
The Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting occured just after Christmas in England in 1980, and is often called “Britain’s Roswell.” James Penniston and Charles Halt gave their testimonies about their experiences of the UFO in November 2007 before a National Press … Continue reading
Lest We Forget: In 2004 a Birmingham Theater Closed a Play Written by a WOMAN Because It Offended a Religious Community (the Sikhs)
See the original BBC report on playwright Gurpreet Bhatti’s censorship here, as well as the craven response of a Catholic archbishop (who supported the Sikh clergy in shutting her play down): Mohan Singh, a local Sikh community leader, said: “When … Continue reading
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What Would Voltaire Say? A Christian Minister in LONDON is Assaulted by a Group of Muslim Men
A Christian minister who has a gospel television show, and has publicly contradicted Muslims who have called into his show, has been assaulted by three Muslim men. The Christian minister is Pakistani, so Muslims may perceive him as an apostate from Islam. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, England, intolerance, Islam, Jesus, Muslim, Pakistan, Politics, religion, the Enlightenment, Voltaire
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Apostate Stalking with Hammers, Knives, and Axes: This Happened Not in Afghanistan—but in Northern England—in the Middle of a British City!
The Times of London reports today on a grotesque and horrific stalking of a young woman in Northern England who changed her religion from Muslim to Christian—and found her imam father stalking her, accompanied by a mob wielding hammers, knives and … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Christianity, England, Hannah Shah, Islam, Judaism, Politics, religion, the Englightenment, The Imam's Daughter, Voltaire
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The Atheist Bus Ad Campaign Moves to Germany
So says Spiegel today: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” The brightly colored ads were part of a provocative campaign on British buses. Spain reacted with its own string of atheist slogans, and now a … Continue reading
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Kindertransport Photo, February 1939
Source: Wikipedia and German Federal Archives
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Tagged authoritarianism, children, England, exile, fascism, Jews, Judaism, kindertransport, life
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Christopher Hitchens on Bishop Rowan Williams
I didn’t know this about Anglican Bishop Rowan Williams, but Christopher Hitchens asserts that Williams believes (presumably in the name of multiculturalism) that Islamic law should supersede, for British Muslims, the courts in England. If so, anything I’ve ever said … Continue reading
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A Blow to Free Speech?
Richard Dawkins’s “There’s probably no God” bus ads got complaints (in Britain) to the Advertising Standards Authority, and it ruled that the ad campaign can continue: The Advertising Standards Authority said it assessed 326 complaints. Some claimed the wording was … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, England, free speech, Hinduism, Islam, John Locke, Judaism, offensive speech, speech codes
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Goofing on Simon Schama
The famously jittery, enthusiastic, and ever gesticulating British historian, Simon Schama, is held up for amusing parody in the clip below: And here’s the real Simon Schama, in an actually rather subdued clip, here: And I’ve linked to my favorite book of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art history, britain, Columbia, comedy, England, history, humor, philosophy, religion, simon schama, yale
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“Nuns Fret Not”: A Sonnet by William Wordsworth (1807)
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High … Continue reading
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Tagged England, Lake District, Nuns, poems, poetry, romanticism, Santi Tafarella, Sonnets, William Wordsworth, writing
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In Evolution We Trust?: England Puts Charles Darwin on the Back of Its Ten Pound Bank Note
If you’re not British, or rarely handle English money, perhaps you’ve never noticed that Charles Darwin is on the back of the ten pound note: Along with the depiction of Darwin, we get compass markers, a ship (presumably the Beagle), and … Continue reading
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