1. Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed

Comment #90145 by Chris Hagan on November 23, 2007 at 7:04 am

Saudi Arabia - home of Mecca and yet the most god-forsaken place on earth. Shame on the British Government for selling arms to this country.

Britain - "But what about Human Rights?"

Saudi Arabia - "Sorry, we can't quite hear you because of the deafening noise of you kissing our arses to get our oil."

Britain - "Forget we even mentioned it. Here, have some fighter jets."

2. The truth in religion

Comment #84185 by Chris Hagan on November 1, 2007 at 11:43 am

With such woolly thinking, I'm not surprised that Christians are sometimes referred to as a flock.

3. Atheism is a religion and you're as bad as the fundamentalists

Comment #83352 by Chris Hagan on October 29, 2007 at 6:55 pm

What would a non-fundamentalist atheist be?

Atheism merely rejects a specific belief system constructed by people with no scientific understanding of our environment. Their relative lack of verifiable knowledge influenced their societies into creating dogmatic rules of living and dying and killing and lying. This was an error.

I reject their god(s) and dogma fundamentally. Yes, I am an atheist but the "fundamental" tag is superfluous, almost tautologous, since when an atheist rejects the notion of the existence of god(s) and dogma, he or she is rejecting it in its entirety.

Fundamental has been distastefully used by people opposed to reason to vilify and traduce their perceived enemies. It is underhand, disingenuous and demeaning to their cause. And let us continue to remind those who choose to attempt to insult us, that we're completely open to any evidence. Just one piece of evidence will be cracking start.

4. Pursue pleasure: it's the natural way to do good in the world

Comment #26622 by Chris Hagan on March 20, 2007 at 5:48 pm

I've just finished a book by Grayling called "What Is Good?" and thoroughly enjoyed it. I can recommend it to anyone who liked the article above. I too will be buying the new one on Monday. Hmmm, I wonder what it's going to be about...?