A Thinking Man

Who will win this year’s bad faith award?
The New Humanist’s annual vote to discover who people think deserves a bad faith award is still open. If you haven’t cast your vote yet, do pop along to the site and see if anyone merits your selection.
Last year Sarah Palin romped home to victory for her [...]

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To deliberately malnourish and beat children so that, in some cases, their bones are broken, is bad.  To systematically sexually abuse them over a number of years is evil.  And for some remote, generalized individuals years later to say “Sorry” is not good enough.
The physical scars of endemic emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of thousands [...]

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It’s about control, control, control! Why won’t they leave us alone?
It seems that almost everywhere you look religious authorities are trying to impose their conclusions about how they think people should behave, what they should say, how they should dress, what they should or should not do with their sexual desires on people who [...]

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Apparently, if reports are to be believed, Pope Benedict XVI has now reversed the Catholic Church’s long-standing position with regard to the use of condoms to combat the spread of the HIV virus.
In the past, the Catholic Church has steadfastly opposed all means of artificial contraception, even the use of condoms for those infected with [...]

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Just imagine that you couldn’t read, or that if you could read, you only had access to a very restricted range of material.  I know, the pain of not being able to read this blog would be almost unbearable …
One index of a society’s health and modernity is the extent to which its members can read and write.  [...]

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