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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Joe Hoffmann Says ‘Thanks, God’
The only way to show you how we really feel is to rebuild the churches and get people back on their knees, where they belong.
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Clare Sambrook on Children in Detention Centres
‘While the Government misrepresents the evidence, children’s suffering goes on.’
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Secularists as Dogmatic and Even More Strident
Says the archish of Westminster sweetly. Also the Irish mess is v good, reminds us we are sinners.
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Jeremy Havardi on ‘Blasphemy’
If religious beliefs appear absurd and immoral by liberal standards, let us feel free to say so.
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Hitchens on Blaming Geology, not the Devil
If any single thing explains the abject misery of Haiti, it is the prevalence of religious cultism.
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Unbelievers Giving Aid
Donate to Doctors Without Borders or other secular organizations.
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Voodoo ‘Faith’ Could Hinder Haiti’s Recovery
No worries about the other kind though.
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Algerian Feminist Playwright Attacked
‘We know who you are, you miscreant whore.’
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Tel Aviv: ‘Guru’ Arrested for Enslavement and Rape
He was ‘romantically involved’ with 17 women, is suspected of raping several of them. How dreamy.
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‘Guru-like Saint’ Had 17 Women, 60 Children
Ratzon banned the women from communicating with men and demanded absolute obedience.
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One Good Thing About Pat Robertson
His claim underscores the absurdity of religious belief, instead of obscuring it with touchy-feely doubletalk
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Bishops Horrified by Equality and Rights
Believers must be able to insist that homosexuality is a sin and that only men and women can marry.
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Senior Member of Hizb ut-Tahrir Teaches at LSE
Reza Pankhurst is a postgraduate student and teaches for the course ‘States, Nations and Empires.’
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Pope Blames Atheists for Copenhagen Summit
Moral sense comes from God; look at those materialistic and atheistic regimes; case closed.
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UK: Government is Friends With MCB Again
The ‘communities secretary’ said the separation was simply too tragic.
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Science Shows: God is the Answer to all Questions
Anxious? Try God. Want sex? Try God.
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Wendy Kaminer: No Atheists Need Apply
Atheists who regard all religions with equal disrespect are sometimes the most reliable defenders of equal religious rights.
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Pat Robertson’s Amateur History
Haiti, Napoleon, pact with the devil – what’s he talking about?
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The Never-ending Horror of Pat Robertson
Writing horror stories in the blood of innocent victims of a monstrous natural occurrence – again.