religion category
My second letter in the Guardian
3 December 2009Giles Fraser argues in opposition to Ariane Sherine that “it is nonsense to pretend one can leave children alone until they can choose their values for themselves” (Comment, 2 December), but her campaign is concerned with religion, not values. Dr Fraser demonstrates one of the key problems atheists have with religion: the arrogance with which [...]
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a thought on religion
22 March 2009Through and by religion humanity prostrates itself before the world into which it has been thrust, begging forgiveness and at the same time furnishing its horrified sensibility with the only excuse it will ever need to subjugate all that it finds to its bloodthirsty and unreasoned whim.
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This religious belief is not ok
27 November 2006Thousands of people oppose a change in the Pakistan rape law so that victims will not have to produce four witnesses, because it is against Islam.
Does Islam really say that a victim of rape has to produce four witnessess? Really? That’s one I’ll definitely have to look up.
But, I repeat – this religious belief is [...]
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Pulling the Straw over our eyes
6 October 2006When Jack Straw said “wearing the full veil [is] bound to make better, positive relations between the two communities more difficult”, all he was doing was stating a fact. John Prescott has since said that if someone came to his surgery wearing a school cap, turban or dark glasses, he wouldn’t ask them to remove [...]
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