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Many of us find it impossible to believe in god and it can be liberating and life-enhancing to fully embrace this lack of belief and live our lives without religion.

Which is an improvement, but atheists still win the “would not vote for” poll at 43%, edging out Muslims at 40%.

For far too many women the hijab is an obligatory article of indenturement that permits no choice; to them, it is a symbol of systematic oppression.

“Patient Zero” turned out to be a girl suffering from epilepsy. She apparently experienced a seizure while fetching water from the school’s well, which triggered mass panic.

The bro-code reaction speaks to uncomfortable fault lines around gender politics and unexamined power that comedians rarely like to acknowledge.

Convert to Islam says rapes “are continuously happening because of Canadian laws, which give too much freedom to women” in how they dress.

Useful? Helpful? The way to get women into science? No.

“My experience working as a Faiths Act Fellow for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and dealing with interfaith action brought me more appreciation of various faiths.”

The murder of rights activist Farida Afridi in Khyber Agency has driven the already dwindling number of female social workers towards more uncertainty.

“The Freedom From Religion Foundation is, itself, a religion of self-exaltation and secularism, and a very aggressive one at that.”

Young Earth creationism is dispiriting. It’s not just that it’s wrong, but that it needs such a mountain of futile effort to maintain even the shadow of plausibility.

“Christian beliefs about sin prevent them from dividing the world between good and evil in ways which ignore the complexity of moral contexts.” lolwut

But hey, if you drop out a whole large continent, almost half were on time.

The only time self-actualized young women can earn more applause than anxiety is when they occupy a truly alternate universe.

The name of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate is removed from textbooks because he was an Ahmadi.

They pixelated Apollo’s pee-pee.

An Imam from Wellingborough has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two children while he was employed to teach them about the Koran.

Eskinder was arrested after publishing an article questioning arrests under anti-terrorism legislation, especially that of government critic Debebe Eshetu.

He thanks his supporters around the world, saying he would feel alone without our support and love. Atheist Alliance International will forward messages to him.

“It is clear this cannot be put on the back burner. Freedom to practise religion is a cherished legal principle,” Merkel’s spokesman said.