‘It was a different era back then and a lot of things happened that shouldn’t.’ Eh? But morality is absolute!
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Russell Blackford on Evolution and Morality
Our evolved psychology may impose limits on what real-world moral systems can realistically demand of us.
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Johann Hari on Rape-Marriage in Ethiopia
She was 8. A stranger raped her, then married her the next day. She ran away but was sent back. Multiply.
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Race Relations at UC San Diego
First there was the ‘Compton Cookout’ to mock Black History Month – then there was the noose…
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Pope Promised Purification of the Church
But events of recent weeks suggest that corruption is rooted close to its heart.
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Andrew Brown on Why Brady Must Go
It’s moral luck. He was a small cog at the time, but justice demands that he go now.
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Religious Belief Cannot Trump Gender Equality
Tension between gender equality and religious rights in rulings by Quebec’s human rights commission.
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Brady Apologizes for ‘Asking’ Children to Shut Up
BBC keeps saying children were ‘asked’ to sign vow of silence. Victims say they were made to sign.
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Barney Zwartz Gives Atheists Some Free Advice
Be less strident, less dogmatic, more humble.
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Victims React to Brady’s Apology
‘The notion of careful reflection is nonsense – he’s had 35 years to reflect on what he did then.’
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Turkey Threatens to Expel 100,000 Armenians
Nobody accuses us of genocide and gets away with it. Just ask Hrant Dink.
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No Foreign Sperm for Turkish Women
Women who seek sperm or egg transplant abroad can face one to three years in prison.
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Damian Thompson Shocked at Pope-coverage
International outrage, Catholic circles, biased coverage, vicious cartoons, universally admired Catholic journalist.
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Damian Thompson Fumes Some More
‘How can Lord Rees-Mogg stand by as the paper he loves traduces the Holy Father?’
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Maryam Namazie on Religious Tribunals
‘Human rights are non-negotiatble and religious tribunals put religion before people’s rights and freedoms.’
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The Catholic Church in Ireland is Staggering
A culture of religious deference has been eroded by one scandalous story after another.
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Irish Catholic Church Runs Everything
Ninety-two percent of primary schools are still run by the Catholic Church. There’s no escape.
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Sean Brady Being Sued by Victim of Priest
Victims were made to sign oaths saying they would not discuss meetings with anyone other than authorised clergy.
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UK: Islamism in Prisons
‘Muslims run the prisons and there’s nothing the screws can do about it. For a Muslim you’d say it’s good but for a non-Muslim, it’s very, very bad.’
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Nick Cohen on the ICA and Postmodernism
Is the Taliban so bad, really?