He says it is God’s will and she takes his word for it. Easy.
Author: Ophelia Benson
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Boris Johnson Cites Valuable Lessons of Islam
‘Such as the importance of community spirit, family ties, compassion and helping those less fortunate.’
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Tariq Ramadan Says He’s Been Too Nice
‘Take the cartoon riots, or the bombings in Madrid. It leads to mistrust.’
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The BBC on the ‘English Defense League’
‘So if it’s not exclusively white, is it just a cover for a wider Islamophobia?’
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Get the sick bag, it’s Tony Blair
Tony Blair gets more sickening every day. Individualism, financial crisis, profit, communal good, deeper level, materialistic, my generation, urk urk urk.
The danger is clear: that pursuit of pleasure becomes an end in itself. It is here that faith can step in, can show us a proper sense of duty to others, responsibility for the world around us, and can lead us to, as the Holy Father calls it, caritas in veritate.
Ew? Ew ew ew ew EW!
What the hell does he mean ‘the Holy Father’? He’s not my fucking Holy Father! He may be Tony Blair’s Holy Father but he’s not mine, so he’s not ‘the.’ The arrogance of them – thinking there is such a thing as ‘the Holy Father’ and we’re all obliged to call it that. The me no the, Tony! Keep your holy pater to yourself.
And if you can’t manage to develop a proper sense of duty to others yourself without help from ‘faith’ then there’s something wrong with you – so go improve yourself instead of nagging everyone about your poxy ‘faith.’
The recent Papal Encyclical is a remarkable document in many respects…It puts God’s Truth at the centre of it. In one passage, it describes humanism devoid of faith as “inhuman humanism”: “Without God, man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is.”
That’s nice – he approves a description of atheists as inhuman and then tells us we don’t know where to go or who we are because we don’t believe in his ‘God.’ Odd how nostalgic I feel for Alastair Campbell.
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Andrew Brown Swoons for Blair on ‘Faith’
‘Blair understands that religion isn’t applied theology. That belief gets everything precisely backwards.’
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Extra Vitamins Pointless for Most People
And some are bad for you. Eat a healthy diet, skip the pills.
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Dwight Furrow on Sholto Byrnes on Atheism
His entire argument rests on a sophomoric understanding of the work of David Hume.
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NY Times Reporter Freed, Colleague Killed
Stephen Farrell, held by Taliban, was freed by commando raid; Sultan Munadi was killed.
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Greta Christina on Atheism Sex and Race
The more atheism seems to be all white male, the more it will stay that way. Does it matter? Yes.
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Rome Conference on Violence Against Women
‘The women of Iran have been at war with the Islamic clerics’ establishment for at least 150 years.’
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Athena Andreadis on Others and Numbers
Furniture is useful and can be decorative, but it’s not supposed to move, dammit!
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Michael Weiss on Misogyny as Multiculturalism
How dare two white-skinned Western atheists presume to condemn the Prophet for keeping a 9 year-old bride?
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David Colquhoun Reviews Unscientific America
In the UK the appeasers of crackpot medicine are widespread but appeasement hasn’t worked there either.
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It Is Sudanese Law That Is Offensive
Lubna Hussein was fighting against laws that objectify and seek to control women.
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King’s Fund Reports on Alternative Medicine
An ‘expert report’ can be produced to back any view whatsoever simply by choosing the right ‘experts.’