A more accurate definition for atheist would be “One for whom God is unnecessary as an explanatory concept.”
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Religious Right guy blubs because gays win equality
How can one weep in sadness over the fact that NY same-sex couples will be able to marry? Who knows.
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US: hate groups on the rise after Obama election
Birthers, “Patriot” groups, anti-Semites, you name it.
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Phil Plait on elevator propositioning
Sexism (conscious or otherwise) is still a strong force in our society, and a lot of men will dismiss claims of sexism from women.
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Chris Hallquist on philosophy as disfunctional
The source of the problem is that, as Peter van Inwagen once said, “Philosophers do not agree about anything to speak of.”
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Mustard Seed Secular School in Uganda needs money
The main need is for more space for the school to grow.
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No skepticism please we’re American
Major US publishers say skeptical books don’t sell.
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Will Ireland apologize to the Magdalenes?
The ten Magdalene laundries were for-profit businesses where women and girls were incarcerated against their will and forced to do unpaid physical labor.
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Health minister calls homosexuality “a disease”
India’s health minister told a conference on HIV/Aids that homosexuality “is a disease which has come from other countries.”
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Christians battle witches in Alcester
They take each other seriously…
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Homophobic imam cites “Islamophobia”
He got expelled from Germany for saying “homosexuals should be executed if they are caught in the act.” It’s an outrage!
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The risks of being a Somali woman journalist
“A gun to your head is not much of an encouragement.”
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Nick Cohen notes the real class divide
It’s not between rich and poor but between rich and everyone else.
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Europe is less secular than you might think
There is the state funding of churches, for example. Marc Alan Di Martino explains.
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Oh no, another atheist emergency
Atheists are advertising again. That is SO unfair.
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Think Atheist podcast
I’m on this afternoon.
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Francis Collins talks god in public
“God’s plan included the mechanism of evolution to achieve that, to create this marvelous diversity of living things on our planet.”
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Terry Glavin on post-pullout Afghanistan
The “international community” is falling all over itself to offer the Taliban a surrender, negotiated or otherwise.
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Anti-gay speakers at Muslim conference during Pride
“We need to learn how to respect one another and live in peace”…with people who think gays should be executed.
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Tory gay group: Ken should be banned from Pride
He’s too friendly with too many homophobes like al-Qaradawi.