Uses and Abuses of Secular Saints
Today’s date in the Positivist calendar, devised by Auguste Comte in 1849, is Caesar 24, 224. The fifth month of this 13 month calendar is devoted to Military Civilization, if that’s not an oxymoron,...
View ArticleOn the Temples of Atheism
[Gotha] Ah, Paul, I am not quite sure about what to think of the present hype surrounding atheism (and humanism following closey in its wake). It’s turning into something that enjoys a peculiarly mixed...
View ArticleAlways look on the bright side of life
[London, UK] ‘Would you investigate the new Atheist Church in London for us?’ Sure, always up for discovering new things in London (an endless enterprise, so suggestions are always welcome), I was more...
View ArticleWhat is wrong with Islam today?
Posted yesterday by Al Jazeera English on YouTube: Mehdi Hasan talking with Canadian author Irshad Manji in Head to Head at the Oxford Union. Irshad published The Trouble with Islam Today and Allah,...
View ArticleWhat I would do if I were a Moslem
(Some more thoughts referring back to my last posting and to the new Oxford Union Society’s video of Mehdi Hasan’s defense of Islam as a religion that does not alow the general defamation of all...
View ArticleAtheist Biblical Literalism, sigh
Quote from the page: This website aspires to be a beautiful and interactive resource for skeptics and believers alike to explore some of the more negative aspects of holy books. It was heavily inspired...
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