9th Feb 2010 : PZ Myers, author of the Pharyngula science blog, and Michael Nugent, chair of Atheist Ireland, visit the Blasphemy exhibition in the Oonagh Young Gallery in Dublin.

9th Feb 2010 : "How many times does the pope get to 'condemn' clergy sexual abuse while doing virtually nothing to stop it?" asked Barbara Dorris, the group's outreach director.

9th Feb 2010 : The Catholic Church in Germany has been shaken in recent days by revelations of a series of sexual abuse cases. Close to 100 priests and members of the laity have been suspected of abuse in recent years. After years of suppression, the wall of silence appears to be crumbling.

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8th Feb 2010 : Dennis Horvitz interviews Russell Blackford at the AAI convention in California.

8th Feb 2010 : Sikhs should be allowed to wear their ceremonial daggers - known as Kirpans - to school and other public places, Britain's first Asian judge has said.

6th Feb 2010 : Europe's cultural inquisition begins.

5th Feb 2010 : Reminder note that this event is Feb 12-14 at Stanford University.

5th Feb 2010 : The Cherie Booth/Blair defenders crawl out

5th Feb 2010 : But it's part of their culture, so it's OK

5th Feb 2010 : On July 1, 2008 Barack Obama promised to abide by "a few basic principles" that would protect the constitutional separation of church and state in his plan for an expanded faith based initiative program.

4th Feb 2010 : A senior judge could be called on to investigate a complaint that Cherie Blair handed down a more lenient sentence to a man who had been convicted of fracturing a person’s jaw because he was religious.

4th Feb 2010 : They had no place to stay, and no supplies — their idea was to use the ton of money they had to buy food to distribute when they got there. But there was no food and no water. That was the point.

4th Feb 2010 : We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to disassociate the British government from the Pope's intolerant views ahead of the Papal visit to Britain in September 2010
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We also request the Prime Minister to assure us that the Pope’s visit will not be financed by the British taxpayer

4th Feb 2010 : Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office

4th Feb 2010 : A group of activists, academics and leaders of the Freethought Movement have come together to propose the foundation of a well-organized, non-profit, freethought organization in India.

3rd Feb 2010 : White evangelicals have taken their corrupt “traditional family values” racket to Africa and hit paydirt.

3rd Feb 2010 : I gather that Tim Tebow is extremely good at football. That's just as well, for he certainly isn't very good at thinking. Perhaps the fact that he was home schooled by missionary parents is to blame.

3rd Feb 2010 : Q: The conservative Christian group Focus on the Family is sponsoring a pro-life ad, featuring football star Tim Tebow, during Sunday's Super Bowl.

3rd Feb 2010 : 50-minute lecture by novelist and humanist Terry Pratchett, assisted by
Tony Robinson, in which he makes the case for the right to die with
dignity at a time of one's choosing.

3rd Feb 2010 : Part 3 of my article, Subjection and Escape, has now been published, and it's been put online at the Free Inquiry website.

2nd Feb 2010 : Professor Richard Dawkins explains why he believes Bill Hamilton to have been one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. Dr Mary Bliss offers expert advice.

2nd Feb 2010 : I want you to remember two names - Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour. They were two young men who were executed by the Islamic regime of Iran at dawn this past Thursday, January 28 for the ‘crime’ of ‘enmity against god’.

2nd Feb 2010 : Some young children in Britain are being indoctrinated to hate non-Muslims and champion a holy war, according to a new documentary.

2nd Feb 2010 : Pope Benedict's view on equality and dissent will cause shock and outrage ahead of his visit

1st Feb 2010 : We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ask the Catholic Church to pay for the proposed visit of the Pope to the UK...

1st Feb 2010 : A charity suggests Churches will attract men by using swords rather than flowers as decoration

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31st Jan 2010 : A wonderful account of The Rapture - Stephen does his thing in his usual way.

31st Jan 2010 : Tickets for The Rise of Atheism, 2010 Global Atheist Convention are now sold out! The Convention, to be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 12 - 14 March 2010...

31st Jan 2010 : The life of Charles Darwin as presented on the Living Waters website by Ray Comfort

29th Jan 2010 : New book by Pat Condell - For too long religion has enjoyed the benefit of the doubt, taking all the benefit and allowing none of the doubt.

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29th Jan 2010 : After all the Darwin celebrations, a controversial new book aims to undermine major parts of his scientific legacy. Peter Forbes looks at the arguments and asks scientists if the critics have a case

29th Jan 2010 : At 10:23am on January 30th, more than three hundred homeopathy sceptics nationwide will be taking part in a mass homeopathic 'overdose'...

29th Jan 2010 : An atheist organization is blasting the U.S. Postal Service for its plan to honor Mother Teresa with a commemorative stamp, saying it violates postal regulations...

29th Jan 2010 : The Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR) is the only Italian association dedicated to the rights of the non-religious and the promotion of a secular worldview.

28th Jan 2010 : The evangelist who says the Haiti earthquake is retribution for sin is at least true to his religion. This is an expanded version of the article already published on the Washington Post's 'On Faith' blog under a different title.

28th Jan 2010 : A family of evangelical Christians who said they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs in Germany have been granted political asylum in the US. The couple fled to Tennessee so they could home-school their five children, which is illegal in Germany.

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27th Jan 2010 : As a general rule, I try to avoid writing about both Pat Robertson and Richard Dawkins.

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27th Jan 2010 : Frustrated by continued demands from viewers for more awesome and extreme programming, Science Channel president Clark Bunting told reporters Tuesday that his cable network was "completely incapable" of watering down science any further than it already had.

27th Jan 2010 : The “On Faith” column at The Washington Post is on a godless roll.

26th Jan 2010 : The biggest expansion of faith schools since the 19th century would be encouraged by a Tory government, David Cameron signalled yesterday.

26th Jan 2010 : It also recommends refusing residence cards and citizenship to anyone with visible signs of a "radical religious practice."

26th Jan 2010 : These words are part of prominent, 14' x 48' billboards that have just gone up on both sides of Tampa Bay.

26th Jan 2010 : Richard was interviewed on the South African talk and news station, Talk Radio 702.

26th Jan 2010 : Mr. Deity is questioned by Larry about his plans for the Promised Land.

25th Jan 2010 : We know what caused the catastrophe in Haiti. It was the bumping and grinding of the Caribbean Plate rubbing up against the North American Plate: a force of nature, sin-free and indifferent to sin, un-premeditated, unmotivated, supremely unconcerned with human affairs or human misery.

25th Jan 2010 : Watching Channel Four’s “Bible: A History”, I expected the usual cliched “look at these strange religious people” spiel...

25th Jan 2010 : Congregation of nonbelievers sparks humanist movement at Harvard.

25th Jan 2010 : The word went out across the internet and on the first day of operation the fund reached over $100,000. That giving has continued and now NBGA has reached over $400,000 with all the monies going for relief aid.

25th Jan 2010 : Q: Many have criticized Pat Robertson's suggestion that the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti was the work of the devil or a form of divine punishment.

25th Jan 2010 : Haiti's evangelical and voodoo priests are providing spiritual and material aid to the homeless and injured

25th Jan 2010 : In the 18th century, the genre of “earthquake sermon” was good business.

24th Jan 2010 : Leading British novelist Howard Jacobson tries to find a path between religious and atheistic fundamentalists.

24th Jan 2010 : As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a U.S. faith-based group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need.

24th Jan 2010 : A Calgary church has lost its charitable status in part because it spends too much of its time advocating on social issues such as abortion and marriage.

24th Jan 2010 : Most wealthy countries in the world, including Japan and much of Western Europe, are not particularly religious, with fewer than 25% of their citizens professing belief in God.

23rd Jan 2010 : TONIGHT ON BBC 4 - 21:45

23rd Jan 2010 : How do you create a surgery center in a disaster zone in the shortest amount of time possible? The aid group Doctors Without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) has developed what they call a "plug and play hospital,"...

23rd Jan 2010 : Famed New Atheist Richard Dawkins has opened up a "religion-free" way of helping the victims of the deadly earthquake in Haiti.

23rd Jan 2010 : The Vatican is facing some awkward questions after an investigation was launched into its alleged involvement in a money-laundering scheme.

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23rd Jan 2010 : The Church of England has been hit by a new slump in its congregations, with the latest figures showing its fifth year-on-year decline.

22nd Jan 2010 : Professor Richard Dawkins appears to see the disaster in Haiti as an opportunity to further his atheist cause.

22nd Jan 2010 : Question: Many have criticized Pat Robertson's suggestion that the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti was the work of the devil...

21st Jan 2010 : The arnica is diluted so much that there is only one molecule of it per 7 million billion billion billion billion pills.

21st Jan 2010 : On 15th of January, 2010, the objectionable T.V. show “Raz Pichhle Janam Ka” on NDTV Imagine has ended prematurely.

21st Jan 2010 : Today in my continued Conversations with Freethinking Authors, I’m interviewing Ophelia Benson, co-author with Jeremy Stangroom of Does God Hate Women? and Why Truth Matters. Ophelia is editor of butterfliesandwheels.com, deputy editor of The Philosopher’s Magazine and author of The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense.

21st Jan 2010 : Right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders said Wednesday that freedom of speech in his country was threatened, as he went on trial in Amsterdam charged with inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.

20th Jan 2010 : Atheists have always donated to charities as individuals and, for that reason, have achieved little recognition for their contributions as a community.

20th Jan 2010 : I'm not particularly concerned about flat earthers and Holocaust deniers in this country, because they have no influence. I can't even name one, and that's a good thing. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about Pat Robertson

20th Jan 2010 : 'The Daily Politics' starts at 11:30 on BBC 2 - Richard will be appearing live at 12:45.

20th Jan 2010 : “The Invention of Lying” takes place in an alternate reality in which lying-even the concept of a lie-does not exist.

20th Jan 2010 : On Friday, January 15, I received in email from Richard Dawkins explaining that his Executive Director Elisabeth Cornwell has organized a campaign to raise money on behalf of the victims of the Haitian earthquake-induced tragedy, and he wanted to know if the Skeptics Society would like to participate, which of course I unhesitatingly agreed.

19th Jan 2010 : The Evolution of God is a fascinating account of the development of god-concepts over time, from pre-agricultural societies to the spread of Christianity and the rise of Islam.

19th Jan 2010 : Richard Dawkins has started up a charity called “Non Believers Giving Aid” so atheists can give to relief efforts in Haiti in a way which promulgates their atheism.

19th Jan 2010 : There's much that needs to be done to assist the recovery in Haiti, but the consensus of those on the ground is that what's needed now is money.

19th Jan 2010 : The Catholic Church not only allowed priests to destroy hundreds of young lives, it blamed the victims and covered up the crimes for decades. For Laurie Taylor it’s personal

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18th Jan 2010 : The James Randi Educational Foundation has teamed up with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and a dozen other secular groups to set up a way to donate money to help out the people of Haiti after the huge earthquake last week.

18th Jan 2010 : For those inclined to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, here's another option for you: Non-Believers Giving Aid, organized by Richard Dawkins.

18th Jan 2010 : Haiti relief fund translated and announced in the German humanistisher pressedienst.
Angespornt durch das entsetzliche Leid auf Haiti, hat die Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) ein dem Zweck gewidmetes Bankkonto und ein PayPal-Konto eingerichtet, um Spenden an nicht-religiöse Hilfsorganisationen zu sammeln.

18th Jan 2010 : The Non-Believers Giving Aid project has been a phenomenal success; it raised over $150,000 in contributions for Haiti within 24 hours, and at the last tally I heard was somewhere over $180,000, with an average donation of roughly $35 per godless donor.

18th Jan 2010 : Tonight, scientist and bestselling author Simon Singh takes part in a special debate, Science and the Battle for Free Speech, at the Cambridge Union.

17th Jan 2010 : The twin goals at the site are are first, to help Haiti, and second to "counter the scandalous myth that only the religious care about their fellow-humans."

17th Jan 2010 : It's idiotic to blame anything other than geology for the Haitian earthquake.

17th Jan 2010 : Support on Michael Shermer's sites

17th Jan 2010 : Today’s National Post contains a commentary by Rex Murphy, titled “God’s unappointed spokesman,” which discusses Pat Robertson’s disgusting comments about the situation in Haiti

16th Jan 2010 : Rebecca Goldstein discusses Spinoza, the ‘New Atheists,’ and the biggest question of all

16th Jan 2010 : Is there anything left of the concept of blasphemy? We argue whether civilisation can survive without it or tolerate it all

Three part series last week from The Guardian with answers to the question by Ophelia Benson, Nick Spencer and Jeremy Havardi.

15th Jan 2010 : January 24th, #31 on The New York Times Best Seller List

14th Jan 2010 : Today, I’m talking to Udo Schuklenk, co-editor with Russell Blackford of 50 Voices of Disbelief, Why We Are Atheists. Udo is also author of The Power of Pills: Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Drug Development and The Bioethics Reader.

14th Jan 2010 : The Counter Creationism Handbook. Life just got a little sweeter: it is now available as a smartphone app for the blackberry and iPhone

14th Jan 2010 : It's not a wish list, because many of the signers have very different ideas of what the law should be; it's merely a joint recognition of what the law currently is.

13th Jan 2010 : Camp Quest sessions summer 2010 - US
UK dates coming soon