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Bad Faith

Posted in Education, Humanity, Science, Society on Nov 26th, 2009

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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Re-inventing The Text

Posted in Language, Religion on Feb 27th, 2008

There are many people who chose to base their lives around a particular religious text. This religious text may contain writing composed thousands of years ago (in the case of the bible, composed over thousands of years). They choose to use this text to determine what they eat and wear, who they marry [...]

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America - The Soft Target

Posted in Censorship, Education, Isolation, Religion, Science, Technology on Feb 8th, 2008

There have been repeated threats in the US to limit the teaching of evolution in state schools. Three leading Florida state legislators are preparing to challenge new state science education standards that will make the teaching of evolution compulsory for the first time in Florida’s history.

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A Politician’s Faith

Posted in Faith, Government, Human Rights, Politics, Religion on Sep 10th, 2007

Politicians who claim that their religious faith is a personal matter are either bad faith practitioners, or less than accurate in the honesty department.  Perhaps their claim to privacy is just a way of saying, “I don’t really believe much of this stuff but am just using it to get votes,” or, “I do really [...]

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