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Ad company rejects Sam Harris billboards
A series of billboards, including the one above, have have been rejected by a major Australian outdoor advertising company. The ads were to be posted in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to promote a...
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What the theocrats forgot
There’s a thing that publicists for religion do when they’re trying to explain why human beings can’t possibly get along without some sort of god in their lives: they insist that God is the only...
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Islamists butcher Bangladesh publisher
Secular book publisher Faisal Arefin Deepan, above, was found hacked to death inside his office in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka yesterday. On the same day, according to this report, another publisher,...
View ArticleC of E wants yet more public funding for useless churches
In August this year, Premier Christian Radio reported that thousands of churches in the UK are at risk of closing as they lose members of their congregation and are unable to meet building repair...
View ArticleDishonest and harmful attacks on ‘extreme secularism’
After taking on “militant atheists” in their last publication, London School of Economics Director Craig Calhoun, above left, and University of Bristol Sociology Professor Tariq Modood have now found a...
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Muslim hooligans target Maryam Namazie’s lecture
After she was branded ‘mindless’ and ‘Islamophobic’ by the Goldsmiths’ Islamic Society (ISOC), secularist and human right’s campaigner Maryam Namazie was subjected to threats and extreme harassment...
View ArticleChristian Institute & secularists unite to defend free speech
Leading secularists and conservative Christians in the UK have attacked plans to introduce Extremism Disruption Orders next year. According to this report, the National Secular Society and the...
View ArticleSwedish schools teach that faith is outmoded and irrational
Swedish researcher Karin Kittelmann Flensner, above, is calling for a better approach to religious studies after she found that faith in schools is portrayed as ‘incompatible with being a modern,...
View ArticleRenowned British secularist Lord Avebury dies aged 87
Lord Avebury, pictured above, left, with the National Secular Society’s Keith Porteous Wood, was an honorary associate of the NSS who, in 2009, was awarded joint Secularist of the Year (with Evan...
View ArticleSomething to strive for: an atheist badge of honour
America’s Freedom From Religion Foundation has unveiling a freethought scouting badge, inset above, to reward young non-believers and challenge the Boy Scouts of America’s discrimination against the...
View ArticleNew app launched to block out Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’
The National Secular Society is today launching a new app that will allow Radio 4 listeners to avoid ‘Thought for the Day’ when listening to the BBC’s ‘Today’ programme. The application will enable...
View ArticleInternet brings Dawkins’ The God Delusion to the Arab world
Millions are reading The God Delusion in Arabic, according to Kacem El Ghazzali, above, an atheist writer from Morocco who has been living as a refugee in Switzerland since 2011. In this article, El...
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Center for Inquiry helps blogger escape from Bangladesh
Shammi Haque, 22, a secular writer and activist threatened by militant Islamists in Bangladesh has been granted asylum in Germany. The US-based Center for Inquiry reported this week that they provided...
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In Miami, you will soon be able to get a degree in atheism
Thanks to a generous donation of $2.2 million from retired businessman Louis Appignani, 83, above, the University of Miami is to introduce America’s first academic chair for the study of atheism,...
View ArticleChristianity’s rapid decline makes the UK better for most
The Spectator, in an editorial this week, reports that, for the first time in recorded history, Britons declaring themselves to have no religion have exceeded the number of Christians in the UK. And it...
View Article‘No God, no marriage,’ judge in Kentucky tells atheist couple
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is on the case of godly County Judge Executive Hollis Alexander, above, who recently refused to conduct a wedding ceremony for a non-religious couple. According to...
View ArticlePresident Erdogan’s Islamist agenda angers Turkish Cypriots
Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets yesterday to protest against what they say is Turkey’s attempt to Islamise their secular culture. According to this report, some 1,500 mostly young...
View ArticleGet your tickets for ‘Secularism 2016: Living Better Together’
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the National Secular Society, and to mark the occasion the society will be holding a conference and gala dinner in London on Saturday, September 3, featuring...
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French secularism risks being destroyed by political ambition
Despite occasional conflicts, France’s tradition of secularism has served both social cohesion and religious freedom well. Terry Sanderson, above, President of the National Secular Society, argues that...
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Education Minister says religion should trump science
Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett, above, last week stressed the importance of Jewish studies over secular subjects. He was quoted here as saying: Learning about Judaism and excellence in the...
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