As someone who accepts the reality that there is almost certainly not a god, and likewise accepts as basically fact, the exceeding well-supported scientific Theory of evolution by natural selection, largely as described by Darwin, I find it pretty unpleasant to be likened to fascist mass-murderers, as people like Josef Ratzinger are wont to...
Mr Charlie Sprout, avowed atheist and alfalfa enthusiast announced yesterday that he had determined the precise day on which the entire Universe would almost certainly fail to be destroyed by a vengeful god. “I was tending my shrubs when it came to me” said Mr Sprout in an interview following his announcement. “Not like a...
I’m reading The Name of the Rose at the moment. (Well, not right at this particular moment I’m not, but you take my meaning.) I read it for the first time when I was much younger: probably in my early to mid teens. Then I just saw it as a really cool mediaeval murder...
I was thinking lately about what exactly shifted me from being an oblivious “dictionary atheist” to a slightly noisy and outspoken one. Ok, maybe a bit more than slightly … I realised it was really down to a few people. A few religious people. A few awful religious people. First was George Pell....
What I’d Like to Have Written About Fred Nile
Fred Nile, the National President of the Christian Democrat party, is a loathsome little weasel indeed (that’s not what I’d like to have written; it’s what I have written). He is so blindly obsessed with preventing the teaching to children of philosophical discourse about ethics that he has abandoned any pretence of behaving like...
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