Archive for May, 2007
Fatwa over adult breastfeeding gets cleric fired
Yes, you read that right. A cleric from the Egyptian university Al-Azhar has been fired over a controversial fatwa that allowed breastfeeding between unrelated adults in order to deal with Islamic social rules forbidding the mixing of unrelated men and women. The funny thing is that they’re all pissed off over something Mohamed [...]
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Penn & Teller: Bible Bullshit
Penn & Teller take on the ‘bestselling book of all time’ the Bible in their series Bullshit:
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Bananas, Coke cans and now electricity
Ray Comfort just doesn’t know when to quit. He’s tried to prove the existence of his god with a banana, brought up a coke can during a debate with the Rational Response squad and in a soon to be published book titled “The Atheist Delusion” he’s comparing disbelief in the existence of his god [...]
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Interview with Lori Lipman-Brown of the Secular Coalition
Just a quick hit to let ya’ll know there’s a great interview up at Nevada Today with Lori Lipman-Brown of the Secular Coalition. I especially enjoyed and agreed with her statement that we should, as the most hated minority group in America, try to avoid unnecessary conflicts with each other.
Do you ever [...]
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Aspiring doctors defiantly choosing to enter abortion field
From the LA Times comes a story about aspiring doctors who are choosing to provide abortions. This is such good news as decades of terror and intimidation by pro-forced maternity activists (H/T Exterminator) has taken it toll on many doctors with the number of abortion providers dropping by 37% between 1982 and 2000.
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Woman blames devil for torture of daughter by husband
A two month old infant is in the hospital today with burns on her face and hand. She got those burns from the microwave her father put her in. He originally stated that she was burned when he tripped and spilled hot water on her. Then he confessed and said he [...]
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Humanist Symposium #2
The second edition of the Humanist Symposium, which includes my post On True Atheists, is up at Confessions of an Anonymous Coward. The next one will be at Black Sun Journal on June 10th.
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