Church condemns contraception and barely a fifth of the population use it.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Irshad Manji on Freedom of Thought
It is vital that Muslims be willing to pose questions out loud.
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Hizb Visits Democratic Woman MP
The scene could have been bettered only if Harman had been a Jewish lesbian.
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Der Spiegel Interviews Orhan Pamuk
‘You portray a horrific world of intolerance, ethnic and religious hostilities, violence and murder.’
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Religious School Can Interview Parents on ‘Faith’
London Oratory School says it uses interviews to check parents’ commitment to their ‘faith’.
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Some Tensions in the Religious Test
Conversion is not actually such a conservative idea. Uh oh.
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Judge Mesmerized in ‘Healer’ Case
‘Healer’ had escaped conviction after saying he could not give blood ‘for spiritual reasons’.
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Wayne Booth
Humanistic education could teach when to distrust certainty.
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Iran Bans Films Promoting Secularism, Feminism
Unethical behaviour, drug abuse, violence, alcoholism, corrupt Western values.
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Riot in Alexandria Kills Three
Riot outside a Coptic church after a protest against a play accused of ‘offending’ Islam.
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Be Relevant: Teach Only What They Already Know
But what if people want to learn things they don’t already know?
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We’re Doomed
Starbucks plans to put religious messages on its coffee cups.
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Bernard Crick Urges Secularists to Be Less Fussy
Says we should not confuse the pinpricks of religiosity with the real threats to freedom.
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Slavoj Has Some Fun
The Other, Others, walls, lies, fantasies, the Unconscious knows no negation.
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Kenan Malik Saw the Birth of Multiculturalism
When the left, shamefully, swapped secular universalism for ethnic particularism
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From Law and Order to Just Plain Order
As in Joseph de Maistre’s rhapsody over the hangman’s role as cornerstone of civilization.
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Shalom Lappin on The Teflon Chomsky
He was wrong about the Khmer Rouge; why is that not a problem for his fans?
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Abducted Guardian Journalist Freed
Rory Carroll phoned Guardian to say his captors had released him to Iraqi government.
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Le Monde on Homa Arjomand and Sharia
She who made the provincial government of Ontario fold.
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Behe Contradicts Self, Lawyer Points Out
Behe compares ID to big bang, which was also not accepted at first. Therefore…