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‘To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant.’

There’s a story in which the Enlightenment version of reason is oppressive and leads to the Holocaust.

Each of us is aware of a light, of something fundamentally good. This something is…Jesus.

Of Du’a Khalil Aswad, 17 year old Kurdish girl murdered by public stoning after running away from home.

Relatives stripped her, beat and kicked her, and killed her by crushing her body with rocks and concrete blocks.

Add your voice to those calling for change in Kurdistan and Iraq and for an end to the oppression of ‘honour’.

Why should there not be pure intellects, with no admixture of matter, who are located wherever they act?

‘Many girls in immigrant communities are trapped in rigid patriarchal structures and live in fear of their families.’

Swedish group tries to change the patriarchal view of women still held by many men.

First they came for the bigots, but I did not speak out, for I was not a bigot.

Leviticus 27 says a man is worth 50 shekels, a woman is worth 30. Because?

Thanks for all the music.

Like Muhammad, Smith could produce divine revelations at short notice and often simply to suit himself.

‘What the creationist alternative does to students is to intercept and deaden curiosity.’

Thousands cautioned. Shopkeeper told to saw off the breasts of mannequins.

Complex manner in which he expresses himself does not imply that his thought is itself subtle or complex.

UNAMI said Iraq’s three Kurdish provinces have reported dozens of women killed for ‘immoral conduct.’

So she left police protection; brother ‘shot her in cold blood on their way home.’

The argument with faith is the foundation and origin of all arguments.

‘Walking on uneven stones is believed to stimulate acupressure points in the feet.’