by Heather Hastie | Oct 3, 2016 | Atheism, Religion
Entries for the competition closed on 30 September, and I said I’d announce winners shortly after, so here goes. You will remember there were two categories: 1. Sokal-type Essay Write an essay of an experience that led to a “personal” epiphany of the...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 31, 2016 | Atheism, Religion
Many of you, like me, are readers of Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True website. Yesterday he posted a story called ‘Templeton-sponsored essay contest: Big bucks for telling stories about accommodationism’. It detailed an essay competition offering...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 31, 2016 | Atheism, Auē a Tau Kē, Religion
It must be true, because the internet said so. I’m not quite up to thinking too hard yet, but I thought I’d make the effort to do my weekly Auē a Tau Kē Tēnei Wiki posts anyway. In an experiment to see whether God would intervene in the heresy of an...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 30, 2016 | Atheism, Entertainment
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...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 7, 2016 | Atheism, Guest Posts, Middle East
Regular readers will know that one of the most frequent commenters here is Paxton Marshall, a retired professor, most recently of the University of Virginia. He and I (and other commenters) disagree a lot, and the topic of that disagreement has often been the opinions...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 4, 2016 | Asia, Atheism, Auē a Tau Kē, Freedom of Speech, NZ Politics
The Murder of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh On 14 May 2015 I posted Bangladesh: Another Atheist Blogger Hacked to Death. This post was mainly about the murder two days earlier of Ananta Bijoy Das, the fourth atheist blogger hacked to death in the streets of...
