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Australian Columnist Says Atheism Wrecks Liberal Democracy

Heather Hastie — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:54:49 +0000

Prior to the latest census in Australia (2016) the Atheist Foundation of Australia ran a campaign. It was to urge people to mark the “NoReligion” option on the census form. The number that did so was 29.6%, almost double the 16% of 2001, just fifteen years earlier. Christianity is still by far the largest group […]

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Russian Orthodox Church Values Are Now the Values of All Russia – and the US Right Too!

Heather Hastie — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 03:14:40 +0000

There are two threads to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disruption of Western democracies. One is to make sure that democratic government as a political system appears unstable. Thus, he makes it seem like countries are better off with some form of totalitarian government such as he represents. Putin has been pushing this idea throughout the […]

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Egyptian Imam: It’s Atheist Doctrine is to Murder Muslims

Heather Hastie — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 02:57:10 +0000

This video is from a debate on Egyptian TV on 27 January between an Egyptian Islamist imam Muhammad Hamouda and an Egyptian intellectual, Sharif Farouk. The TV host, whose name I cannot ascertain, is clearly on the side of the imam. Part of the debate is about atheism versus Islam, and part of that is […]

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Atheists are Becoming More Popular!

Heather Hastie — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:17:49 +0000

In 2014 Pew Research did a survey about the way different religious groups within the US feel about each other. Within religious groups, there was also analysis by political affiliation. I wrote about it at the time, lamenting the low opinion most USIans have of atheists. I found that especially frustrating as studies show that […]

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The Authoritarian Left and Misdirected Animosity in the Atheist Community

Heather Hastie — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:57:03 +0000

The worldwide atheist community is growing every day. In northern Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand this trend has been obvious for some time. The 2015 Pew Research Center Report ‘The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections 2010-2050‘ says: During the next few decades, the number of religiously unaffiliated people around the world […]

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For WEIT Readers – Babies Galore!

Heather Hastie — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:48:45 +0000

Many of you will have read and enjoyed Jerry Coyne’s post this morning on the Why Evolution is True website: ‘Five things that atheists don’t want you to know.’ I made a comment about atheists eating babies. As you probably know, there are lots of memes relating to this myth that occasionally make the rounds […]

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Ted Cruz: Atheists “not fit” to be President

Heather Hastie — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 02:29:52 +0000

I’m sure Ted Cruz isn’t the only candidate vying to be United States president to think this, but thankfully such bigotry isn’t usually voiced. However, as Cruz is mainly relying on the evangelical Christian vote to get him votes in the Republican primary race, making such statements won’t do him any damage with that constituency. […]

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Bangladesh: Another Atheist Blogger Hacked to Death

Heather Hastie — Thu, 14 May 2015 02:45:02 +0000

On 21 April, Bangladesh’s The Daily Star published an opinion article entitled The extent of freedom of expression. It was written by senior law lecturer Mirza Farzana Iqbal Chowdhury of Daffodil International University, a private university in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. It took the same line I have seen over and over again from Bangladeshi […]

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Bias in Reporting about Atheism in the United States

Heather Hastie — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:31:57 +0000

I see reports like this frequently in the US media, and they annoy me intensely. The latest is called Pro-Atheism Group Harasses University Over Bible Verse etched on it’s ‘Heavener Hall’. It’s in a publication called College Fix, which describes itself as “Your Daily Dose of Right-Minded Campus News from Across the Nation” (their emphasis). […]

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Bangladesh: Third Atheist Blogger Hacked to Death

Heather Hastie — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 03:47:14 +0000

This morning I woke to the news via the Canadian Atheist website that only a month after the murder of Avijit Roy, yet another atheist blogger has been hacked to death in the streets of Bangladesh by Islamists. Washiqur Rahman (27), who was working as a trainee at Far East Aviation Services following his graduation […]

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