Jesse Galef has heard from Baylor students who said they felt threatened with expulsion because of their lack of faith.
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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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A former follower of Michael Pearl on the death of Hana Williams
Rule 8: Be joyful about chastising your baby all day. Praise God while you slap a three-month-old’s hand with a ruler and think about how godly he’ll turn out.
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Michael Bérubé on Libya and the left
“When a group of people who are about to be massacred ask for help, what do you do?”
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If you want to talk about “slut shaming”…
Nathan Salo Tumberg addresses some.
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High ranking chaplain leaves out ‘so help me god’
The military’s climate of hostility towards atheists is beginning to change. Foxhole atheists like Justin Griffith are slamming the ‘atheist closet’ door shut behind them.
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NZ man convicted of “procuring and inciting attempted suicide”
The saga has re-ignited the euthanasia debate in New Zealand and may prompt
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Major measles outbreak in Quebec
There are now more than 750 reported cases. Heath officials are now preparing to launch a massive vaccination campaign in schools.
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US Congress reaffirms official status of “God”
No it’s not optional.
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French Muslims don’t feel accepted
So a few of them bomb Charlie Hebdo office. Quite understandable. Underground tensions in society, see?
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No Motoons for you
The firebombing comes a day after Charlie Hebdo named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s edition.
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Firebomb attack destroys Charlie Hebdo office
They published the Motoons, and were about to publish more Motoons. Can’t allow that. Boom.
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If you disagree with a woman, talk about raping her
Especially if she’s an atheist woman.
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Simon Singh offers “psychic” a chance to test her psychic powers
If Sally Armstrong is a genuine psychic, then the result can only be positive, inasmuch as it would push forward our understanding of the universe.
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On being asked “how can we do the impossible?”
The state legislature can demand that faculty alter time and space, suspend gravity, and invent perpetual motion machines — but we cannot meet demands for what is simply impossible.
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The media think consumerism is feminism
Celebrity’s contribution to feminism is: if you are hot enough you will be heard, but hurry up, because you won’t be hot for long.
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Seumas Milne calls Tunisia’s Islamist party “progressive”
Others are not so naïve.
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Ghannouchi vows to protect rights of God, prophet
Promises “a Tunisia that is free, independent, developing and prosperous in which the rights of God, the Prophet, women, men, the religious and the non-religious are assured.”
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Texas Freedom Network on a Board of Ed member
In discussing the state board’s revision of social studies curriculum standards last year, he smears educators and scholars as “America bashers and America haters.”
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Libby Anne on marrying before thinking
Quiverfull daughters have no chance to grow up or mature. Then they marry. Then what happens?