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i think the kids that voted for marcus tasty demise
should have gone to see him slaughtered,
just to crank up the traumatisation a notch.

Richard Dawkins & Carl Sagan: "Will the Universe Be the New Religion?"


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The first animated episode of the humanist webcomic, The Flowfield Unity is out in the wild. You can see it below, or HERE on Youtube.

Click to view

It's based on the strip 20 Deaths a day.

But which do you prefer... static webcomics or moving images?

If any of you have an account for editing Wikipedia, you may be interested in an attempt to delete all content from the "Humanism" article and forward the link instead to the "Humanism (disambiguation)" page.

Right now there is currently a fair amount of description of humanism, most specifically the philosophy that is shared by secular humanists ( Read more... )

“The New Atheist Movement is destructive” In any case, my opinions are not so much about these books as the general tone and direction the new atheism they represent has adopted. This is not a function of what exactly these books say, but of how they are perceived, and the kind of comments the four horsemen make in newspaper articles and ( Read more... )

Here's an article I wrote for my Freethinker Meetup. I'm working on a follow-up, and will post it here when it's finished.

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NPR has a story contrasting the celebration of Charles Darwin in the UK and the controversy in the US. The short version is that he's a national hero in his homeland, but thirty-four of the United States “have passed anti-evolution laws of one kind or another.” :-(

Representing the Church of England, the Right Rev. Lord Harries of Pentregarth ( Read more... )

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