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What if speech with real social value seems very likely to lead to violence?

Italian Foreign Affairs Minister laments lack of ‘common European identity’ which he takes to be Xian.

Six televangelist ministries are being investigated by Senate Finance Committee for possible tax law fraud.

Wakefield’s Lancet study caused vaccination rates to plummet, resulting in a rise in measles.

Science reporters tend to avoid looking hard at research that produces interesting conclusions.

‘Healing patients’ via ‘the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.’ Doctor doubts touch cures gangrene.

Urges ‘shared witness’ against secularization, relativism, abortion, euthanasia, science.

‘Speaking as a professional, I would say that is an empty plastic case,’ said explosives expert.

Christianity is based on the Bible, as read in the light of reason under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, OK?

A lot of it is flawed; it’s stupid to make animals suffer to do flawed research. Do it right.

‘God will work all things for our good even if we don’t understand.’ ‘Even catastrophes include divine presence.’

Someone who can empathise without offering a load of meaningless or insulting platitudes.

We have an evolved psychological need to help people who are suffering, especially when we can see them.

If Christian influence is a licence to practice bigotry at public expense, it’s time for armchair secularists to resist.

For getting pregnant. Her father was fined. The village elders pardoned her rapist.

Meanwhile demands that religious groups should comply with equality provisions have intensified.

‘The earthquake is God’s voice and He will do other things. The stars will crash down onto the earth.’

They all go together, surely.

While fighting racism we cannot allow ourselves to become apologists for another, abhorrent injustice.

We support fairness but we want to go on excluding women and gays. Surely you understand.