An badly-named group called the Dove World Outreach Centre and its leader, one Reverend Terry Jones, have gained notoriety of late for promoting ‘International Burn a Quran Day’. A YouTube user I really like, Anekantavad, has an elegant riposte: Don’t Burn Any Books Day. He holds up a series of books from his library – [...]

The Face Coverings (Regulation) Bill, introduced by Philip Hollobone MP (Conservative – Kettering), has had its first reading. Given Mr Hollobone’s previous statements that the burka is ‘against the British way of life’ and ‘offensive’, it is fairly clear to me what its intent is. Three points. Firstly, this is deeply illiberal. I shouldn’t need [...]

I’m guessing that more than a few of my readers will be familiar with the popular YouTuber, Thunderf00t, who did the excellent ‘why do people laugh at creationists?‘ series. Unfortunately, he has ventured into the realm of politics. Below is a video he has recently posted that is causing a bit of drama on YouTube. [...]

xD. PS – a little while ago, I celebrated my fifth anniversary of blogging. This is my one thousandth post.

As you may or may not be aware, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort published an edition of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species with a fifty-page creationist introduction, including such gems as “Adolf Hitler took Darwin’s evolutionary philosophy to its logical conclusions.” “…Darwin was a racist.” “Darwin believed that women were not as competent as [...]

I have recently written two posts on religion; one dealing with Islam, the other with the Roman Catholic flavour of Christianity. I wonder if there is a contradiction between the positions I advance. In the former case, I argue for an individualistic freedom, saying that people should be able to wear what they want. In [...]

His holiness the Pope has condemned Britain’s gay rights legislation. In spite of protestations that they hate the sin but love the sinner, the Catholic church would like to continue discriminating against homosexuals. He criticises “limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs”. I wonder exactly how widely he [...]

I’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front of late. Work and so on means that I haven’t had enough time to keep up with blogs, let alone write on my own. I have, though, started making some YouTube videos. They’re not going to win any awards, but I enjoy doing them. You may [...]