Tag: Atheism
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Quran vs Bible
This has been doing the rounds but I think it’s worth repeating here. I’ve heard a lot of crap about the Quran being ‘violent’ and Islam being the religion of violence from supposed Christians, people that like a lot of Muslims (including funnily those foot soldiers in Iraq and ISIL/Daesh) don’t know their own books.…
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The Mindscape of Alan Moore
I’ve seen clips from this but never watched the full documentary about Alan Moore – partly about his life and comics, but mostly about his magickal and spiritual thinking and thoughts of the future. Appropriate to be watching it on November 5th as fireworks explode outside, gunpowder treason and plot! While I’m not sure in…
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Jonathan Pie: State of the news
Many a truth spoken in jest ‘off camera’ about Jeremy Corbyn. It is crazy that during #piggate and all the stuff and nonsense about an atheist republican not singing ‘God Save The Queen’, there’s been tax cuts for the poorest, trying to scrap free school meals, the refugee crisis, an estimated 50,000+ people died of…
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Here come the New Atheists
“If you want to prove people you can be good without God, then look in the mirror and start with yourself” Love Jamie Kilstein and his diatribes against the new breed of Dawkins atheists (usually in my experience Men’s Rights #gamergate 4chan dweebs, conspiracy types and general nutjobs). It needs to be said, you can’t…
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Freedom to have no religion is not a luxury
There’s a lot of discussion about freedom of religion, what about freedom to have no religion? In many parts of the world that’s punishment by death or torture…I think that gets missed as people bleat about the right to discriminate, or that ‘atheism is a religion’ – well if you (wrongly) believe atheism or humanism…
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Protest the pope in London
This is the protest against the pope I went on yesterday – I turned up thinking I might be the only one, or maybe 80-100 people would be there. When I arrived there was maybe 1,000-1,500 there, by the time the march went forward, delayed by over an hour it was more like 10-12,000. Heartening…