For the believing Christian, death is no big deal.
Category: Flashback
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
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Sholto Byrnes criticizes secularism on the left.
For all the talk of tolerance, there are some who believe that certain subjects simply cannot be aired. And foremost among them is God.
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Frontline’s ‘Prisoners of Silence’
Double-blind testing show it’s the ‘facilitator’ who is typing.
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Steiner racism and state funding
At Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship ‘special pre-election seminar’
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BBC boss says Islam should be treated differently
Also says his Christian beliefs guide his judgments.
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David Colquhoun on the problem of causality
The problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.
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Being a new atheist means not saying you’re sorry
It seems as if in order to be a ‘good’ atheist one has to feel bad about not believing in god.
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Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl
3 January: I am afraid. 14 January: I may not go to school again.
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Free Speech and its Postmodern Adversaries
The theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”
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Communal justice in Bolivia
Cases include death sentences for women accused of adultery and the beating, stoning, hanging, and burning of an elected official accused of corruption.
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Pitcairn Island: 6 Found Guilty Of Sex Abuse
Six men were convicted of charges including rape and indecent assault in trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on Pitcairn.
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Stepping Stones Nigeria on Child Witches
An increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”
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John Hartung on ‘Love thy Neighbor’
Thy neighbor is not everyone, it is thy group.
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Submission in advance
A gigantic taboo zone has been created, repeatedly reiterated and expanded with the well-intentioned collaboration of Western intellectuals.
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IHEU on superstition and witchcraft in Africa
Attacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.
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Lawyers for victims say pope obstructed justice.
In 2001 Ratzinger issued an order ensuring the church’s investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret.
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Constitution? What constitution?
Article 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”
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Remember Hazlitt
Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.
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Peter Van Inwagen on Clifford’s Sentence
Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?
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18 good ideas
Tahir Aslam Gora suggests an outline for the new Islam.
