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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Maia Caron Interviews Udo Schüklenk
Religious institutions and the states they control move ever more viciously against freedom of speech to protect themselves from legitimate criticism.
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Judge Rules Killer Can Argue for Right to Kill
Will be allowed to argue in court that he believed he was justified in trying to save unborn children
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Manslaughter Charge ‘Could Justify Violence’
The court ‘should not be the first to enable a defendant to justify premeditated murder because of an emotionally charged belief.’
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If Murder is Sincere Then it’s Not so Bad?
Judge refused prosecution request to bar evidence that might support a voluntary manslaughter conviction.
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Paul Fidalgo on Karen Armstrong
When cornered by particularly formidable atheists and rationalists, religionists play the Socrates Card.
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Pat Robertson Says Haiti is Cursed
Because of that pact with the devil.
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Dennett on ‘Media Bias Against Christianity’
There is none.
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The Fate of Journalists Imprisoned in Eritrea
‘The conditions in which Eritrean detainees are held are among the most disturbing in the world.’
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Violence Against Journalists in Philippines
Nightmare 2009 culminated in massacre of 30 journalists by a militia on Mindanao, and 2010 has started badly.
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Jesus and Mo Defend Moral Absolutes
Killing is tricky, of course – but some things are totally absolute!
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Dear God Please Bless My iPhone
Possessed bankers hold their toys aloft for blessing. Seriously.
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Why Did a British Professor Support Pol Pot?
The other historians went into the archives; Caldwell had very clear ideological views and the empirical basis didn’t seem to worry him.
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What is Blasphemy and Should We Care?
My take on Comment is Free Belief question of the week.
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More ‘Human Sacrifices’ in Uganda
Witch doctors, children chopped up for parts, ritual, get rich quickly.
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More ‘Equality Threates Religious Expression’
‘As umpteen bishops and other religious leaders have pointed out.’ Oh well say no more.
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Gay Muslims Made Homeless By Family Violence
Forced marriage, ‘honor’ killing, beatings, imprisonment.
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Gallery Director Pitches Fit at Two Artists
They criticized religion! One religion in particular! Director placed giant ‘Warning!’ sign on stairway.
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Nicholas Kristof on Religion and Women
When religious institutions exclude women from their hierarchies, the implication is that females are inferior.
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Atheism Has Left the Closet
The new atheism is bigger, more organised, and much more assertive than ever before.