For a while now, I’ve wanted to have some sort of gendered language consultation, getting views from across the board, but it’s never really felt right to do so. However, since the start of the “Question of the Week” section, I’ve thought that it might be the ideal platform. So, here’s your fourth question of [...]
University College London’s godless students have a new project. (You might remember them from such scandals as this.) At their freshers’ fair next month, where most societies give out pamphlets and pens with their details on, they’ll be distributing atheist condoms. One of five secular slogans will go on them – some of options appear above – [...]
Sunday’s post on humanism has gained lots of attention, including the National Secular Society’s, who shared it on their homepage. (Thanks to them for the readers that sent us.) One issue I mentioned half way through that post, and that I’ve brought up a lot elsewhere recently, is that I want to focus my activities [...]
My Heresy Club colleague Alex recently wrote a piece called ‘problems with the humanist brand and why I am not one‘ in which he quite rightly pointed out some flaws with humanism and those who identify as humanist. He concluded by saying I’m a non-humanist, and I’m fine with other people being humanists. I just [...]
There’s recently been much discussion over A+/atheism plus, and whether or not it’s just humanism. (This was something discussed in the hangout I just did.) Here’s something James Croft, of the Harvard Humanists, said about it: Many seem to be responding to the “Atheism+” language more readily to the language of “Humanism” … And that [...]
Hello friends, It’s time for another post. I promise this won’t be as lengthy as my last offering (which went down VERY well, by the way, to my absolute delight. Thanks so much for that response). Today, I have a bone to pick. I deliberately waited a few days after the incident I’m about to [...]
In a village near Islamabad, an 11-year old girl, who is reported to have Down’s syndrome, was recently accused of blasphemy. As is fast becoming the norm in Pakistan, a crowd gathered and started beating up the child. Her mother also received a beating as she tried to protect her daughter. The rest of the [...]
In the wake of Jen McCreight’s proposed new movement/organization predicated on a shared progressively political philosophy, I figured now would be a good time to ask our readers just what sort of politics they fall in with. Now mind you, this isn’t about A+, if you wanna talk about that, then Alex’s post on the [...]
First off, I should probably stop using exclamation points in every title of mine, it just makes me sound like I have a volume problem. Second off, with all the kerfluffle (the best kind of fluffle) over the recent calls for a new atheist movement of third waves and A+’s, I thought I’d chime in [...]
Jen McCreight just called for ‘a new wave of atheism’, led by feminist skeptics and those of us concerned in general with social justice in our movement. The post has gained a great deal of attention, including a lot of praise, and led to the idea’s supporters adopting this symbol. One commenter Jen went on [...]