Julia Sweeney was kind enough to give me the name of her optician where she got her godless spectacles. Here are mine: you can borrow them, if you like.

Want to try them on? Just for a minute, so that you may see how we see the world? Go on, they’re safety spectacles [...]

What arrogance, to presume
that the virtue of others
is better understood and led
than the character of self.
What arrogance, to say
that all are born evil,
when ’tis claimed that
a fanciful wraith is perfect.
What arrogance, to pronounce
knowledge of the unknowable,
vision of the invisible,
comprehension of the incomprehensible.
What arrogance, to exclaim
existence is worth less
than an illusory life
of which you only lust.
What [...]

I know a few readers here have tried to use the folksonomy to locate certain posts, and weren’t getting the ones listed that they were expecting, especially with previously unused tags. Unfortunately, there was a bug that wiped out a post’s tags under certain conditions, which has since been fixed.
This does mean, however, that [...]

Suppose that it was proven (not just believed, but actually demonstrated beyond all doubt, reasonable or otherwise) that there never were, and never had been, any gods whatsoever. From this, we can see that the various scriptures, as interpreted by believers of such, would not be true.
Theists often claim that their scripture is the [...]

The Labour Humanists have a couple of post that may be of interest to the secular humanists in the UK.
First, the tale of a couple who, from an unfortunate circumstance combined with an ancient (and frankly ridiculous) law have to fork out £200,000 to pay for repairs to a CofE church, which currently has assets [...]

After a conversation with my partner who was bemused by the idea of “christian news”, my partner said:
Bloody hell, two thousand years is a hell of a wait for an update!

Richard Dawkins’ self-appointed nemesis, the equally vociferous Alistair McGrath, is to release another ad hominem titled book, The Dawkins Delusion? later this month.
On the Ekklesia (a religious think tank) web site there is, what basically boils down to, an advertisement for this book masquerading as a news article. This article also acts as a [...]

Actually, the title of the BBC news article is “Teacher sacked over religion row“, but that’s not strictly accurate, is it?
A supply teacher has been sacked from a secondary school following complaints from Muslim pupils.
Andrew McLuskey was sacked from Bayliss (sic) Court Secondary School in Slough after a Religious Education lesson discussing the pros and [...]

From MediaWatchWatch:
The fundamentalist group Stephen Green’s Voice (aka Christian Voice) has released details of the district judge’s refusal to proceed with the blasphemy case against the BBC. Basically, she said JS: TO was protected by the Theatres Act of 1968, and that previous decisions by the High Court and the BBC Governors’ Programming Complaints [...]

For those of you who don’t know, in 1998 the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (now called the “Center for Science and Culture“), a division of the Discovery Institute, the bastion of the creationist/intelligent design (c/ID) movement, published an internal manifesto to promote religion over science, which they called The Wedge Strategy.
This [...]