Mike Ovey, of Oak Hill Theological College, set forth one of religion’s favorite fallacies — “absence of belief is a religion” — and added one I’ve never experienced — “faith is objective because it can be taught.”
Full article: Judge: Christian beliefs have no legal standing. Evangelicals call it persecution | Paliban Daily.
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What about the right to be Fabulous?
Just let me say up front, I knew this would happen someday. A preacher was arrested in the UK last week for telling people publicly that homosexuality is a sin. He claims that he should have freedom of religious speech.
To begin with, there's no such thing as completely 'free' [...]
Guess who?
Censorship seems to be the order of the day.
Carol Coleman, bless her, tried to squeeze the Muhammad Vs. South Park debate into about ten minutes of The Wide Angle on NewsTalk today . While inviting a brash comedian to debate a Dublin Muslim leader might have seemed like a good idea at the time, [...]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
But doesn't that deny Destiny…?
A new law regulating the sale of Catholic mass cards went into effect yesterday. Or almost did, we're waiting to see if the High Court thinks that this section of the Charities Act falls foul of the EU monopoly legislation, of all things.
Under the new law, the Catholic Church will become [...]
Nail him to something and create your own religion!
Making harmless fun of Our Lady of the Tree Stump? Think again.
The brand new and extraordinarily offensive blasphemy law finally passed the committee stage and was voted on in the Dáil, where it again passed of course.
Along with the current Draconian licensing hours, it's a typical piece [...]
The Justice Committee meets this afternoon to discuss the Defamation Bill, which includes the ridiculous blasphemy legislation. I sent this letter to every member of the committee.
Sir,
I object in the most strenuous fashion to the proposed anti- freedom of expression legislation, whereby a victimless crime such as blasphemy may become punishable by fines, etc. I [...]
Back in the car guys, we've got ten more pubs to raid
I don't know what it's called but there is a specific phenomenon whereby you tend to believe something is a commonly held belief simply because your limited circle of friends also believes it. It's a sort of self-re-enforcing concept.
Well, here is my belief: no-one [...]
From their Facebook invitation:
BLASPHEMY IS A VICTIMLESS CRIME
Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel
7:30pm Tues 16 June 2009
The Limerick meeting is the fourth of several being held around the country, organised by Atheist Ireland, an advocacy group for an ethical and secular Ireland, and co-hosted in Limerick by the Mid-west Humanists. Speakers will include
Michael Nugent, chair of Atheist [...]
