Category: Secularism
By Irreligiosity on May 21, 2008 in Around the World, Featured, Flawed Logic, Gay Marriage, Irreligiosity, Morality, Politics, Religion, Secularism, United States | 0 Comments
I forwarded a link to my post on Maggie Gallagher’s interview with NPR to the contact e-mail provided on the National Organization for Marriage. In the e-mail I asked if they had any comment on the apparent disconnect between their mission of keeping civil rights from a minority group and their claims that they are […]
By Irreligiosity on May 20, 2008 in Around the World, Christianity, Featured, Flawed Logic, Fundamental Hubris, Gay Marriage, Irreligiosity, Morality, Politics, Religion, Secularism, United States | 3 Comments
I was listening to the podcast of NPR’s Day to Day from last Friday, just after the gay marriage ban passed. They brought on several people to talk about the decision, but the most interesting for me was Maggie Gallagher, President of National Organization for Marriage. This is one of the main groups responsible for […]
By Irreligiosity on May 15, 2008 in Around the World, Christianity, Featured, Fundamental Hubris, Gay Marriage, Irreligiosity, Morality, Politics, Rational Thought, Religion, Secularism, Snark, United States | 1 Comment
There is some most excellent news out of California today for those who believe in equal rights under the law for everyone. The California Supreme Court struck down a law banning gay marriage in the state, meaning that same sex couples are now free to marry as they please with full recognition under the […]
By Irreligiosity on May 12, 2008 in Around the World, Christianity, Europe, Featured, International, Morality, Politics, Religion, Science, Secularism | 0 Comments
Scientists in Britain have started creating genetically modified embryos to use for research purposes. It appears that they’re only using embryos that were discarded from fertility clinics, are destroying the embryos after five days, and won’t be implanting any of these genetically modified embryos into a uterus where it could potentially grow up to […]
By Irreligiosity on May 12, 2008 in Around the World, Christianity, Featured, Morality, Politics, Religion, Secularism, United States, censorship | 0 Comments
Shock! I almost found myself agreeing with a Christian group today, but then they had to go and take things a little too far. Pro-Decency and Pro-Family organizations are going to hold a conference at the Press Club in D.C. and then go on a peaceful demonstration for a couple of hours in front of […]
By Irreligiosity on May 11, 2008 in Around the World, Atheism, Basic Biology, Christianity, Creationism, Education, Evolution, Featured, Flawed Logic, Fundamental Hubris, Historical Perspective, Intelligent Design, Morality, Politics, Pseudoscience, Rational Thought, Religion, Science, Secularism, United States | 3 Comments
After my post concerning the Alabama legislature the site was visited by C. David Parsons, author of a seven-volume textbook called The Quest for Right that claims to finally provide a synthesis of science and the Bible. Now that I’ve read through his site I’ll have more to say about Quest for Right in future […]
By Irreligiosity on May 10, 2008 in Around the World, Basic Biology, Christianity, Creationism, Education, Evolution, Featured, Intelligent Design, Politics, Pseudoscience, Rational Thought, Religion, Science, Secularism, United States | 4 Comments
The National Center for Science Education is reporting that an effort to get Intelligent Design into the state science curriculum under the guise of academic freedom for teachers has failed. This is definitely a good thing. The Intelligent Design crowd had their asses handed to them in the Dover trial back in 2005, […]
By Irreligiosity on Apr 3, 2008 in Around the World, Christianity, Featured, Flawed Logic, Religion, Secularism, United States | 5 Comments
In my particular corner of the Bible Belt there are billboards that have sprung up like weeds claiming “An educated person knows the Bible” and directing drivers to the Bible Literacy Project. I never understood why projects like this always seem to spring up in the Bible Belt where they’re already preaching to the converted. […]
By Irreligiosity on Mar 5, 2008 in Abortion Debate, Around the World, Basic Biology, Christianity, Featured, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Rational Thought, Religion, Science, Secularism, United States | 2 Comments
The Wisconsin Senate is thinking of passing a bill that will force “conscientious objector” pharmacists to provide contraceptives and the morning after pill to individuals no matter their own personal beliefs on the matter, and boy are Christian groups in that state annoyed.
These Christian groups are trying to turn this into a complicated morality debate, […]
By Irreligiosity on Mar 4, 2008 in Atheism, Christian Living, Christianity, Creationism, Eschatology, Featured, Fundamental Hubris, Islam, Politics, Rational Thought, Religion, Religious Freedom, Secularism, Snark | 5 Comments
I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]