Ray Comfort’s fans line up to normalise child sexual assault
In the wake of the news that Josh Duggar sexually assaulted his sisters—sometimes while they slept—evangelicals have a choice. They can either look very hard at the situation and themselves, and ask...
View ArticleHad Josh Duggar been prosecuted, Duggars would have lost the right to home...
In the state of Arkansas, where the Duggars reside, it is illegal to homeschool if there is a sex offender present in the home. Yes, it turns out Arkansas has at least one very sensible home schooling...
View ArticleVirginia home schooling chief praises child abuser Duggar as ‘exemplary’
This is a guest post by R.L. Stollar, Homeschoolers Anonymous Community Coordinator. It is reposted with permission from Homeschoolers Anonymous. “Jim Bob just radiates Christ.” ~ Doug Phillips at the...
View ArticleIt’s time for Christians to admit Jesus doesn’t change people
Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Growing up, I was always taught that the blood of Jesus washes away our...
View ArticleCompulsory worship in schools is indoctrination, and it has to stop.
Today the BBC reports that former Education Secretary Charles Clarke is calling for an end to compulsory worship in schools. The first reason given in the BBC’s article is that the current requirement...
View Article“You need to free yourself from the influence of Satan”, said the schoolteacher.
The Bridge Schools Inspectorate (BSI), which allowed some private Christian and Muslim schools to choose their own inspectors, has ceased to be. It is an ex-inspectorate. The writing was on the wall...
View Article“Why didn’t Allies do more?” demands organisation that sent Hitler a birthday...
The head of an organisation which vigorously opposed the Third Reich by providing no official resistance has criticised the Allies for failing to stop the Holocaust. “Why didn’t you bomb the railway...
View ArticleBristol Palin, you are not a disappointment
My Patheos colleague (if I can call her that), Bristol Palin, is pregnant again, and I don’t like any of the reactions I’m seeing. I loathe the choruses of schadenfreude from my fellow atheists and...
View ArticleChristians make the best Nice Guys (but not the nicest guys)
I’ve been thinking about Nice Guys. I used to be a Nice Guy. I like to think I’m still a nice guy, but I think I’ve done enough to ditch the capital letters. Nice Guys, for those of you who never go on...
View ArticleHow Christianity set me up to become a pickup artist
In my last post, I talked about how Christianity taught me to be a Nice Guy. Here’s how that ended. Towards the end of my degree, I became friends with a woman who still went to an evangelical church....
View ArticleKen Ham’s Ark Park will get tax breaks after all
A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter has a legal and constitutional right to a program of tax incentives worth up to $18 million. In case you don’t know, Ken Ham is...
View ArticleUK government plans to silence critics of faith schools
While I’m pretending this blog is a news site… Our estimable education secretary, Nicola Morgan, has announced plans to ban organisations and campaign groups from making formal complaints about faith...
View ArticleI was a Pickup Artist, and Roosh V should worry you
My Facebook feed and inbox are currently full of a petition to keep Roosh V out of the UK. Roosh V is variously described as a Pickup Artist (PUA) and a rape advocate, but I had a quick glance at his...
View ArticleGravitational waves make me glad I’m not a Christian anymore
Growing up as a creationist, I tried to ignore scientific discoveries that threatened by faith. Now I can share in the excitement of Einstein's triumph.
View ArticleWhat happened when my prosperity-preaching dad got a brain tumour
My dad was a locally renowned prosperity gospel preacher. When he died of a brain tumour at 51, his friends disappeared.
View ArticleNot a Nice Story
From babyhood they said "You are a dirty sinner, there is nothing good in you, you are destined for hell because of your nature."So we, small humans, awoke to a world where toddlers need the sin and...
View ArticleKen Ham says teaching evolution is child abuse
Ken Ham has said teaching evolution is "intellectual child abuse". There is a sick irony to this, when creationism is so often used to reinforce abusive styles of upbringing.
View ArticleLearn philosophy with Dan Fincke (and me!)
A lot of the atheists I know really like philosophy. It was reading philosophy that forced me on to the train of thought that ultimately led me to reject faith. If you’re as grateful as I am to be out...
View ArticleWhen it comes right down to it, I’m still a fundamentalist
I don't believe anymore, but if I were going to believe, it would have to be fundamentalism.
View ArticleDon’t let creationism make liars of us all
At the AHS Convention on Saturday, I was lucky enough to meet Nick Lane, a biochemist at UCL and renowned expert on abiogenesis. He had given a superb talk, discussing experiments which promise...
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