Secular Woman, Inc. made its debut yesterday and it’s a really exciting step in secularism in America. The charity is the first national membership organization dedicated exclusively to advancing the interests of atheist, humanist and other non-religious women. According to their website their vision is “a future in which women without supernatural beliefs have the opportunities [...]
Update: I’ve just seen the comment on Rhys’ blog post from someone suggesting Coffee Loving Skeptic kill himself which is absolutely, shamefully disgraceful and disgusting. I am appalled at whoever this person is. They should be deeply ashamed. I’ve also discovered people have attempted to hack into his email account – I don’t know if this is [...]
Update: Coffee Loving Skeptic was asking for a retraction from Rebecca Watson about the fact he didn’t call her a cunt. She has just posted the retraction asked for. No seriously, a guy complained that I misrepresented him. “I’d NEVER use the word cunt, you feminazi!” Duly corrected. LOL Coffee Loving Skeptic didn’t actually say [...]
Update #2! Tony has now changed the title of the blogpost to “Rebecca Watson (The Skepchick): a liar?” Update! Rebecca Watson has tweeted this I’d like to sincerely apologize to the man-children I’ve blocked. That first guy called me a “feminazi,” but maybe not a “cunt.” Sooo sorry. — Rebecca the Undead (@rebeccawatson) June 27, [...]
Perhaps I blog in too hitch-pitch a voice, or my tweets are written in a whiny voice? I don’t know what the cause is, but quite often I am passed off as a drama queen when I debate someones points online. I am naturally a very calm person and it takes a lot to get me worked [...]
The secretary of the AHS, Mike Paynter, has just been interviewed about ‘running a national student organisation’ which in his words ‘represents what young atheists, humanists and secularists stand for’. What do they do? ‘We stand up for secularism by campaigning against religious privilege, and as humanists we encourage people to examine moral issues from [...]
The media group/pressure group/band of talkative celibates Catholic Voices, formed as a cheerleading team for the Pope’s state visit to the UK in 2010, have published what they call the “first-ever poll of gay attitudes to same-sex marriage”, conducted by ComRes on their behalf. Leaving aside the strange and whimsical idea that you can file [...]
The latest in a long line of skeptical shitstorms recently erupted in the blogosphere, on Twitter and Facebook. It’s been people overacting to some good points and bad points left, right and centre and frankly I’ve been avoiding commenting because I don’t want to become a target for vile comments from people who have vendettas [...]
Today I found a book on my brother-in-law’s shelf, with his name inside the cover: Leadership is Male (a clear, concise look at what the Bible teaches), by J. David Pawson. I’ve just read it, cover to cover. Here, with the author’s original italics and phrases underlined as they were with pencil in the book, [...]
‘I taught English to a supermarket manager abroad’, says my sister. We’re eating, and each remembering time spent overseas. ‘No you didn’t!’ Her four-year-old sits between us, incredulous. ‘Before I had you’, my sister explains. ‘When I was in your tummy?’ ‘Before that.’ ‘When I was with Jesus?’ An hour or two later, and again [...]