At the moment London is playing host to a march to apologise for the anglican church’s role in the slave trade, which was abolished in the UK two hundred years ago on Sunday. The march is being led by Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, and John Sentamu, the archbishop of York.
Last year, the [...]

This is a new one on me, but I thought I’d share this gem of bizarritude. All for your edification, of course. It may not be safe for work (but then again it all depends where you work, doesn’t it?)
Here we have stripping for god from one Kellie Everts aka Rasa Von Werder. [...]

Over at his hive of stupidity, bigotry and intolerance, Uncommon Descent, William Dembski is making more ridiculous noises, this time about the fact that we have the etched image of Charles Darwin on the £10 Bank of England note.
His idea is that Darwin dissenters, when offered one of these notes, should ask for two five [...]

Conservative Humanism? Yes, it’s a new one on me, too.
…starting in the mid Twentieth Century, Humanism took a turn away from many of its historical axioms and even forgot the absolute conviction of valuing human life. On demand abortion, Euthanasia, and religious Environmentalism began to blight Humanism. The result is Secular Humanism which condones [...]

I received this in my work inbox this morning. The offending email was advertising something called “anatrim”, and apparently [a]s were seen on BBC (sic) and contained what I can only imagine were personal testimonials from people who have used anatrim:
“I hate to admit it but I was dreadfully addicted to food.
I greedily [...]

I think I saw this on Digg (I mailed a reminder to myself, but didn’t mention where I saw it) but there’s a most excellent image of the family-tree summarising the primary inter-relationships of the various Greek gods, titans and whatnot, all the way from all-encompassing Chaos to the ugly fire god Hephaestus and the [...]

Over a Scribd, there’s an e-book entitled 16 Things It Takes You 50 Years to Learn.
A couple of them stood out; the first is spot-on, the second a little more droll:
7. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
10. If there really is a [...]

Hattip to the always excellent Bligbi.
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Sick of searching YouTube for wingnuts? Is GodTube not hardcore enough for you? Why not give IslamTube a whirl. They have explosions, slaughtered camels and people seeking marriage.
Nice (although I wouldn’t necessarily say that it was all SFW). It does beg the question as to what the ‘flag this video’ option [...]

On the bus to work this morning, I saw one of those cardboard mini-poster advertisements (the ones that sit above one’s head that the people on the other side of the bus can ignore) announcing Resurrection07 — Reclaim Easter from the Bunny, an evangelical christian event to be held in Scotland.
Yes, quite. Only Easter [...]

This may seem like an odd request, and isn’t anything to do with ID (although it may turn up something related) although it does involve thoughts on theology in more general terms.
Does anyone know of any specific philosophical texts relating to design and function? More specifically I’m looking for texts that discuss the design [...]

(For UK citizens only.) Further to my previous post about the government recognising the value that the non-religious have in the UK, and for those of you who haven’t seen these before, we need your voices to add to the chorus (see what I did there?) of dissent to help raise awareness of places [...]

A petition was recently put on the 10 Downing Street web site with the following wording:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recognise the moral and ethical values held by Atheists as on a par with with religions.
A large part of britain’s (sic) society is made up of secular atheists. However, when referendums and [...]

To all of those readers in the USA (and other places where they have weird date formats ;-))
Happy π Day

In fact, this appears to be the only time where a US-style date is better than a Euro date.
Hope you all have a good one!
More about π, and more about pie.
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Can anyone explain to me (especially if you’re of a religious bent) as to why homosexuality is immoral?
I just don’t get it.
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