“Those who injure the souls of believers with scorn and derision must be put in their place and in some cases also punished,” said Bamberg Archbishop Ludwig Schick on Wednesday. “Bishop calls for blasphemy laws“, The Local. The notion of blasphemy is both one of the most ridiculous, and simultaneously, …
Perspective looms fairly important in our lives. It allows us to empathise, to sympathise, to comprehend, to draw conclusions – it’s not the be all and end all of knowledge acquisition of course. But it is an important factor. We even have sayings for it, from the slightly esoteric, …
I was inspired by “How do atheists find meaning in life?“, and then a subsequent discussion on Facebook that quite rightly pointed out the sometimes too-generalised criticisms levelled by the author, to write a bit about the rules I live by as an atheist. This life is the only time …
I’ve been thinking a little more about the pathetic diatribe Barnaby Joyce made in the Canberra Times a few days ago, and the utter hypocrisy therein. In particular, when calling atheists “the sneaky sect”, he claimed: Yes, this sect’s followers make their way on to your veranda then hold a …
A while ago, Barnaby Joyce, the leader of the LNP in the Australian Senate, said, when speaking of his daughters and the issue of same sex marriage: “We know that the best protection for those girls is that they get themselves into a secure relationship with a loving husband and …
Me: There is a pink dragon in my carport. You: I don’t see a pink dragon. Me: It’s invisible. You: How do you know it’s pink? Me: Because it can show itself when it wants to. You: But I walked through your carport, I didn’t bump into anything. Me: It’s …
I think I often surprise people when I say that I resent sleep. It seems that almost everyone I know likes to have a good sleep in – if not regularly, then once in a while. So when I tell people that I resent sleep, the reaction is usually one …
Take two groups of people, one with religious beliefs, and one with spiritual beliefs, and track their belief on a semi-circle, and an odd thing happens. Let’s start with religion: On the religious semi-circle, you start with the moderates at the ‘base’ of the shape. These are your average people …
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