Nick Cohen (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The Observer As every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar “new atheism” is sweeping Britain. The readers of Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and Christopher Hitchens are, they tell us, crass because they do not appreciate the mystery of religion, the consolations of ritual and all the rest of [...]
Notes from an Evil Burnee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday's " News Quiz " on BBC Radio 4 had a couple of minutes on the BBC Trust 's decision this week not to allow non-religious viewpoints on the Today Programme 's " Thought for the Day " segment. The participants are Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan, Jeremy Hardy (who has a go at Richard Dawkins ) and Sue Perkins, with Sandi Toksvig in the chair. Relevant excerpt (2'46" 1.3...
Kouya Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
I love this article from the Times today! The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins’s latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery he associates with religious baggage. With the slogan “Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself”, the youngsters with broad grins [...]
Christianity-is-not-leftwing (Free subscription) | yesterday
'The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins’s latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery he associates with religious baggage. With the slogan “Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself”, the youngsters with broad grins seem to be the perfect advertisement for the new atheism being promoted by Professor Dawkins and the British Humanist...
~guronaqi~ (Free subscription) | yesterday
... een 'denkertje' in versvorm in Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion . Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
Per Crucem ad Lucem (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A letter that Richard Dawkins was an unsuccessful bidder on sold at auction in May 2008 for a meagre £170,000. The item in question was penned by Albert Einstein in January 1954, just a year before his death, and was addressed to philosopher Erik Gutkind after reading his book, Choose Life: The Biblical Call to [...]
The Answer's 42 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Criticisms of the "Don't Label Us" campaign from religious commentators are predictably ridiculous. One wrote "These people are immensely stupid, and arrogant. To suggest that one does cultural violence to one’s child by exposing him or her to religion is very close to nutty." Nutty is one way to describe the reactions of some of the critics, including Reverend David McIlveen...
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Ruth Gledhill has the rather delicious scoop. The posters erected by the British Humanist Association as part of a campaign ostensibly against labelling children, show two rather happy looking children. Presumably the imagery is intended to show how joyful children can be when they are free of labels and from the pernicious intervention of Christians who brainwash children and don't let them make their...
Of course, I could be wrong... (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From the website of the BRITISH HUMANIST SOCIETY (they're not proper humanists - just a bunch of angry, jealous saddoes): From OUR RUTH'S blog: Oh, how totally embarrassing for them. And they're such an earnest bunch of killjoys. What I want to know is if Richard Dawkins really does exist, why does he allow such awful things like this to happen?
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I am religious, I have many friends who are not. We get along just fine. Militant atheists are another breed. They are offended by my belief. I think this article does a good analysis of the unhappy militant atheists such as dawkins. The Richard Dawkins-led anti-religious movement in many way resembles the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, on both Left and Right, which hated religion as rival...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
When Richard Dawkins published The God Delusion in 2006, he was at the forefront of a movement some have retroactively dubbed “the new atheism,” which also includes bestselling authors Christopher Hitchens ( God Is Not Great ) and Sam Harris ( Letter To A Christian Nation ). Though The God Delusion became the British scientist’s most famous work, Dawkins had already written more than...
No Countries No Religion (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Atheist billboards are misguided by Jan Ainsworth: In their latest poster campaign , Ariane Sherine and members of the British Humanist Association appear to have decided that it is a Very Bad Thing that parents might try and bring up their children within a religious or philosophical framework of their choosing. They suggest it is wholly unacceptable that anyone might suggest that their own child...
Left I on the News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I recently finished reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion , in which Dawkins presents his arguments not only against the existence of God but affirmatively for an affirmation in atheism, tackling such subjects as "is religion the source of morality?" and "is religion actually a bad thing?" Being both a scientist and a Marxist, I didn't need Dawkins to convince me of the non-existence...
Jons Journal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In a move not entirely unrelated to my last post, a new poster campaign from the British Humanist Association has been unveiled. The posters follow their previous 'bus' campaign which stated 'There's probably no god, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.' They seem to be part of a campaign to get rid of faith schools. Richard Dawkins said on Radio 2 today that it was a consciousness raising exercise,...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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