Church leaders have argued that such laws could seriously restrict ‘religious freedom.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Picture of Jesus Can Stay in Courthouse
Picture is now shown with 15 other people in legal history, including Mohammed with Koran.
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Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology and Religion
Some very interesting stuff, some very dubious stuff.
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PZ Myers on Haidt on Morality and Religion
Haidt makes important questions vanish by simply equating religion with moral systems.
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Atheist Group Protests Censorship
RC League for Religious and Civil Rights fussed about Kathy Griffin’s refusal to thank Jesus.
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Normblog on Why Truth Matters
If there is no truth, there is no crime. There are only different stories.
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A Woman Among Warlords
Director Eva Mulvad films the election campaign of Malalai Joya in Afghanistan.
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Buddha Carving in Pakistan Attacked
The area has seen a rise in attacks on ‘un-Islamic’ targets in recent months.
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Shock-horror: Critics of Islam on Facebook
NY Times is confused about what constitutes ‘hate speech.’
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Martin Amis on the Passion for Unreason
Crush reason, kill reason, and anything and everything seems possible.
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Tristram Hunt Frets at ‘New Atheist Orthodoxy’
Foolish atheists fail to understand that Protestantism caused the Enlightenment.
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The Long and Noble Tradition of ‘Faith’ Schools
The noble thing to do would be to stop taking public money for the purpose of indoctrinating children.
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A C Grayling on Ghettoes of Superstition
Government’s desire for social cohesion will be negated by keeping children in competing ghettoes of superstition.
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Secularist Ignored by Academy Steering Group
Steering group for C of E-sponsored academy refuses to talk to secularist critic.
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Launch of the Committee for Ex-Muslims
Similar organisations have started across Europe; reps from the UK and Germany will join the launch.
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Women’s Education Pre and Post Taliban
One of the Taliban’s edicts in 1997 called for a nationwide ban on public education for all women and girls.
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What Would Jesus Surf?
Welcome to the Jesus Surf Classic, for those who are into waves, God, baggy shorts, and crucifixes.
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‘Faith’ Schools Will Improve Cohesion
Or separation. One of those.
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Arthur Danto on Richard Rorty
The writing is a kind of performance, the purpose of which is to dramatize philosophy’s impotence.
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Hussein Ibish on Sense, Nonsense and Strategy
Why do some on the Arab left support the Muslim far right?