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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Niqab and shorts video protests burqa ban
I thought it was protesting the burqa, but no, it’s protesting the ban. The logic escapes me.
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In defense of secularism
Those who wish to engage in public debates on morality or ethics will find a far healthier environment in secular societies than in religious ones.
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3 British schools require girls to wear the niqab
All three are independent, fee-paying, single-sex schools for girls aged 11 to 18.
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Open letter to American Museum of Natural History
There is no reason why children who come to the museum to learn about the theory of evolution should hear scientists proclaiming their belief in God.
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Jesus heeds the archbishop, Mo groans
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
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Joe Hoffmann on 3 fewer things to say about atheism
“I have always liked to refer to myself as Sartre’s grandmother: ‘Only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.’”
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NY Times on more drama at the Center for Inquiry
Is it a feud between humanism and “negative, angry atheism” or a mismatch between academics and lawyers or Lear battling the winds?
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James Ley reviews Eagleton on evil
Eagleton is happy to attribute positive human characteristics, such as aesthetic preferences and a capacity for love, to pure nothingness when it suits his argument.
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Ed Miliband doesn’t believe in god shock-horror
Yes, it’s true, he doesn’t believe in god. Other people do, and he does not. Blair and Brown do, and he does not. Really. It’s true.
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Times Higher on science ‘n’ religion
They’re the best of friends and it’s only those stupid militant atheists who think otherwise so nyah.
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Audio of Humanisterna seminar in Stockholm
Remember, this was after 19 hours of travel time, so I’m crap at first, but it gets better.
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Why atheists should be feminists
As atheists, we ought to have a particularly easy time recognizing the harm done to women in the name of God.
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Joe Hoffmann on 5 good things about atheism
Atheists are required to assume moral responsibility fully. Religious people are not.
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DR Congo rape victims speak to UN panel
The aim of the hearings is to improve the treatment, support and compensation currently given to victims.
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Court rules Babri Masjid site should be divided
Muslims would get one third, Hindus another third, and the remainder going to a minority Hindu sect.
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Fake ACORN Pimp O’Keefe Tries to Frame CNN Reporter
CNN frequently played O’Keefe’s doctored videos smearing ACORN, without ever making a correction.
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Larry Moran issues a challenge
Show us the very best 21st century, sophisticated (or not), arguments for the existence of God.
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The Pew religious knowledge survey
Data from the survey indicate that educational attainment is the single best predictor of religious knowledge. No really?!