The British “guerilla” graffiti artist that goes under the nom de guerre Banksy has recently been to the Middle East to offer the locals his particular brand of controversial graffiti.
This example is to be found in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank:

As a statement, this image of a dove (presumably a “dove of peace” from [...]

The latest edition — and, coincidentally, the first of the new-look Humanist Society of Scotland magazine, Humanitie — has an excellent essay on sexual morality written by student Eimear O’Casey, who jointly won a student essay competition run by the society with this essay.
Unfortunately I can’t find the essay online, but if you’re already a [...]

For all the hundreds of trillions of words written and spoken, by billions of believers, in millions of books, blogs, prayers and sermons, for thousands of years, none of them, not one, have even a single jot of evidence for the existence of their respective deities.
What an awful waste.
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This has been bothering me for a while now, ever since I saw Zak’s Atheist video on YouTube, and I thought that I’d take a closer look at what Psalm 14:1 actually says.
The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
there is no one who does good.
New International [...]

Ok, here’s a poser:
if the bible is the word of god, etc., and inerrant in it’s original form, why are there no corrected editions?

This article was originally posted at In Defence of Reality.
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I had the opportunity to take part in a discussion the other day, Debunking Christianity: Is God Afraid of Us? and opined that there were reasons why I thought that god had fear, although I didn’t address the point if god was afraid of us. I couldn’t think of any further commentary, and so [...]