Calling it justice doesn’t make it just
Apparently in the uproar over beheadings committed by ISIS, some have noticed that America’s ally Saudi Arabia has committed quite a few of them as well:… Read More »Calling it justice doesn’t make it just
Apparently in the uproar over beheadings committed by ISIS, some have noticed that America’s ally Saudi Arabia has committed quite a few of them as well:… Read More »Calling it justice doesn’t make it just
In France, individual citizens run a satirical magazine, the Charlie Hebdo, which publishes cartoons making fun of Muhammad among countless other current world leaders and… Read More »In the virtue stakes, reverence leaves empathy at the starting line
This meme spotted on Facebook. It’s far from the first one I’ve seen…hence this post. Hat tip to Ed Brayton for pointing it out in… Read More »Beliefs? I’ve got ’em.
Following up on Sunday’s post, I can’t help but keep returning mentally to Dr. Darrel Ray’s talk at Skeptics of Oz last month, which you… Read More »A bit of mulling over
Richard Dawkins in a still from The Root of All Evil? No, you don’t have to have read the Qur’an to have opinions about Islam.Legitimate opinions.Even scientific… Read More »Will the real Islamophobes please stand up?
…comes from James Sweet, in a comment on Dispatches: For some people, marriage is still an institution that is defined by proscribed roles. The man… Read More »The most concise explanation of how marriage equality threatens the institution of marriage
Previously I wrote about how it’s incorrect to say that you respect women if that respect is contingent on their dressing and behaving according to… Read More »Further adventures in abusing the notion of respect
In which Pat Robertson advises someone who frequently buys second-hand clothing that she should “rebuke any spirits that happen to have attached themselves to those… Read More »Haunted socks
This post previously published as an article in the journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion in 2008. What is the best way… Read More »Full of Sound and Fury: The Media Response to Dennett
Dr. X commented recently on just world bias, as displayed by Oprah while interviewing Lance Armstrong: Just one slightly weird blip in an otherwise good… Read More »No special snowflakes