Informed Hatred
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Morality, Religion on Oct 6th, 2008
Richard Dawkins reading his fan mail.
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Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Morality, Religion on Oct 6th, 2008
Richard Dawkins reading his fan mail.
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfi4wwo0GcI]
I find myself continuing to laugh about and reflect on a comic strip cartoon that was first brought to my attention by Daniel Florien in which the creator, Neil Swaab, explains why god must prefer atheists to believers.
Posted in Health, Humanity, Morality, Religion, Society, Terrorism on Dec 6th, 2007
Myth 1: Without religion we would have no moral values and our society would be worse off.
Surely, the argument goes, the benefit of having a god in your life is that it gives you rules to live by. “If God does not exist then everything is permissible,” said Dostoyevsky, and indeed, without the threat [...]
Please bear with me. I know this story originally broke in July, but, 1) I wasn’t blogging then, and 2) it did happen in Australia, so it has taken a long time to reach me. And it is too amazing not to mention here. It is, really ….