Well Mo, it is South Park after all, not the prayer room at Liverpool Airport.
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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Andrew Brown on a particular kind of ‘faith’ in politics
You can’t have large-scale voluntary action without faith: a combination of self-discipline and hope in an uncertain future state.
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Jon Stewart is like Media Matters, but funnier
He criticizes Fox News a lot because it is “truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.”
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Suspended sentence and Asbo for mocking religion
Harry Taylor was convicted of “religiously aggravated harassment” for putting religion-teasing leaflets in an airport “prayer room.”
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Susan Jacoby on Dorothy Height
She didn’t choose to be out of the limelight, she was shoved there.
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Akwa-Ibom Child Witches
Yemi Ademowo Johnson would like to be able to close down refuges for children accused of witchcraft. Alas, not yet.
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Obama admin will appeal Prayer Day ruling
“I would have expected something better from a legal scholar,” FFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said.
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Franklin Graham uninvited to Pentagon ‘Prayer Day’
What is the Pentagon doing having a ‘Prayer Day’?
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Cristina Odone offers theocratic bullying nonsense
Dr Death, abortion, euthanasia, faith schools, all life precious.
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The terrible case of Lucia de Berk
A Dutch nurse who has spent 6 years in jail on a life sentence for murdering 7 people, in a killing spree that never happened.
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A spectacular reputational car crash for the BCA
Until they sued, most people thought chiropractors just did backs, Ben Goldacre notes.
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Pope named in Milwaukee abuse lawsuit
His lawyers want the Church to release any files it has on abuse cases involving priests.
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50 Voices of Disbelief Review in First Things
New atheism, pooh pooh, new atheists, yawn, new atheism, sheer banality, new atheists, will go away soon, new atheism, we all hates it.
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Uncredible Hallq disputes Pigliucci
Why try to turn these disagreements into proof that the New (read: Bad) Atheists are screwing everything up?
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Catholic church crumbles across Europe
Raping or beating children, spending orphanage money on wine and jewelry, refusing to admit – it all adds up.
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Catholic child rape scandal spreads in Europe
Walter Mixa, bishop for Augsburg and the German armed forces, offered to resign after admitting he used to hit children.
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Ireland: Another Bishop Resigns
Bishop James Moriarty did not challenge Dublin Archdiocese’s concealment of child-abuse complaints from police.
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Theo Hobson reads Alister McGrath
McGrath repeatedly claims that “faith entails no departure whatsoever from the rational high ground.”
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Rust Belt Philosophy on NOMA
Since so much of our knowledge supports and is supported by other knowledge, there are networks of dependencies that stretch across nearly all of what we believe about the world.
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A political climate of nervous deference to ‘Faith’ groups
We now have a situation in which a religious body representing a tiny number of people is able to cause a serious and expensive inconvenience by invoking their outraged religious sensibilities.