Islam ad nauseum
I truly had 3 other post topics set aside and was going to take a break from Islam, but there it is again in the horrific and much discussed Orlando Continue Reading →
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Wanna get educated on Islam? Listen to Maryam Namazie, Reason Rally 2016
This is a 6 hour recording done by the folks at Mythicist Milwaukee. Maryam Namzie’s speech is on at 2:34:00 (let it load for a bit, its a big file). Continue Reading →
Reality, finally and fantasy still: Hillary and the Lama.
Hillary Clinton, in a speech in Cleveland on Monday 6/13/16 covered by the USA Today in Traditional GOP ‘bump’ after terrorism may elude Trump finally used the phrase “radical Islamism” Continue Reading →
Krauss…and the Secular Dream
Lawrence Krauss at the Reason Rally. The end of his talk, echoing Martin Luther Kings’s “I Have a Dream Speech.” The most moving moments of a very good day. Carolyn Continue Reading →
David Silverman, fighting over words as well as god
David Silverman, author of “Fighting God” and President of American Atheists. I enjoyed his book. Do read it. He is right, we are winning and his firebrand atheism, up front Continue Reading →
The Universe…what we know at this point
This video starts at the bottom of it all, so to speak, the Planck length defined as 1.616199(97)×10−35 meters…..we’re talking small! Ten to the minus 35 meters!!! A human hair Continue Reading →
The Secular Advance: part 2.
So I’m here in Wash DC with the Secular Coalition for America (SCA), the lobbying group formed by all the major non-believer/secular groups in the US to promote separation of Continue Reading →
“It’s the religion, stupid…”
The May 14-20th edition of the Economist has a special report on the Arab world entitled The War Within. It is an excellent and detailed overview of the unstable and Continue Reading →
“Culture keeps us in chains”: Gad Saad on “honor”
Gad Saad explains a number of key points about Middle Eastern thinking and culture during his interview of Muslim American journalist Asra Nomani. At 34:32 he discusses Arab/Middle East ideas Continue Reading →
Religious Pluralism and the End of Religion
This passage from From The Saudi Kingdom to EXMNA says it all: “When I was nine years old, I found myself sitting in an Islamic studies class, listening to my Continue Reading →