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It Persists

In 1968 the sociologist Peter Berger famously predicted that in the 21st century, religious believers would only be likely to be in small sects, huddled together to resist a worldwide secular culture.  In 1710 Thomas Woolstan predicted that religion would be gone by 1900.  And many other thinkers (Voltaire, Jefferson, Marx, Engels, Freud) have all anticipated [...]

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Islam and Apostasy

There was a report by Ruth Gledhill in the TimesOnline of a British citizen who was harassed when he converted to Christianity from Islam and who was then not taken seriously when he complained to the police. When locals threatened to burn his house down he was told by officers to “stop being a [...]

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Whatever you call it - heart, soul, mind - it is sacred to you, influenced by outsiders, yes, but controlled only by you. They can only reach it if you allow them to. It is yours and yours alone. You alone have the final say. Yours is what makes you, you: [...]

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I Salute You

Mina Ahadi, an Iranian exile now living in Germany, is a woman who has spent her life opposing the mistreatment of women by the Iranian clerical regime. 
Mina was at university in 1979 at the time of the Iranian revolution and she was soon noticed by the authorities because she began to organise demonstrations opposing the compulsory veiling [...]

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