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Egyptian women cane morality police

Gary Roberts — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:54:21 +0000

You go, grrrlz! Post-revolution gangs of young men trying to enforce Sharia law in the Nile delta town of Benha, Egypt, found themselves on the receiving end this week. According to reports in the Egyptian news media: Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt …

Mythical Being Launches Attack on Ministries’ Finances

Gary Roberts — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:36:20 +0000

Right Wing Watch reports that, for the third straight year, conservative activist pastor Rod Parsley is pleading with his congregation to send him money. Nothing new there, you’d think—he is a televangelist, after all, and asking his flock to part with their own money is something they do all the time. What surprised me is that Parsley …

Damian Goddard, fired for tweeting

Gary Roberts — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:49:23 +0000

Damian Goddard was a Toronto-based broadcaster for Sportsnet who was fired from his job six months ago for a tweet he posted on his personal Twitter account, expressing his views that only marriage between a man and a woman is a “true” marriage. The posting on Twitter was in support of hockey agent Todd Reynolds’ …

Welcome, Pharyngulistas!

Gary Roberts — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:37:02 +0000

If you’re dropping by from PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula, after he posted my article on why I’m an atheist, then welcome! And this is where I’d originally posted that article back in 2009.

No more Easter Bunny for me

Gary Roberts — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:30:29 +0000

Easter Sunday was a good day for us when we were kids, second only to Christmas Day. We couldn’t wait to get home after Mass to unwrap our chocolate eggs! We’d remain in our Sunday best most of the day, as family and friends filed through my parents’ house for tea and biscuits. The religious …

A compassionate man?

Gary Roberts — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:44:59 +0000

You know, sometimes I think gay people can be downright mean and unrepentant when it comes to upsetting religious sensibilities. Am I alone in thinking this? No sirree! I would be in a most auspicious company if I were to make such a claim. Why, that most revered icon of Catholic humility and acceptance, Pope …

PZ Myers Presents: Science Education

Gary Roberts — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:13:36 +0000

I’ve already bought my ticket for this lecture by PZ Myers in Toronto on Halloween; Science Education: caught in the middle of the war between science and religion. PZ Myers is a biology professor from Morris, Minnesota, who writes the most popular science blog on the internet, Pharyngula. Myers is a controversial figure who regularly …

Wackaloon logic

Gary Roberts — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:00:08 +0000

*Sigh* There are some amazingly stupid woo-woos out there. This one is a Church of England rector who wrote that homosexuals should be tattooed with health warnings on their backsides and chins, because homosexuality is: clearly unnatural, a perversion and corruption of natural instincts and affections, and because it is a cause of fatal disease …

And God made calamari…

Gary Roberts — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:23:00 +0000

Read this drivel: The cuttlefish is a cephalopod which operates with such sophisticated technology that scientists today are struggling to understand just how this creature came to be. This creature is a perfect example of God’s magnificent design, demonstrating stealth tactics, among other features, which include not only changing colors, but also texture, to blend …

E.T. phone home – if you have one!

Gary Roberts — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:48:00 +0000

Is it just me, or do other people find it a teeny-weeny bit scary that the Pentagon holds “prayer breakfasts” and invites people like Ken Ham, chief honcho at Answers in Genesis and founder of the Creation Museum, as a guest speaker? Mr. Ham uses his blog to write about his visit to the Pentagon, …