by Heather Hastie | Aug 22, 2017 | Religion, Simon's Cat, Women
This new Simon’s Cat video, Cat Yoga, came out several days ago but I’ve been too busy to post it. It’s more than 35 years since I did yoga so I don’t remember much about it, but some of the names here seem familiar. I do remember the Downward...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 4, 2017 | Human Rights, Religion
Over the last couple of weeks a series of articles has been appearing in the US media attacking biologist Jerry Coyne. They’re in response to a post on his own website, Why Evolution Is True (WEIT). On 13 July 2017 he wrote ‘Should one be allowed to...
by Heather Hastie | Jul 30, 2017 | Human Rights, Religion
The sad case of Charlie Gard, as so often in similar situations, brought out the worst in Christians. Here we have an example of what secularist and devout Roman Catholic Andrew Sullivan terms “Christianism”. (Christianism is analogous with Islamism. ) At...
by Heather Hastie | Jul 12, 2017 | Australia, Religion
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...
by Heather Hastie | Jul 4, 2017 | Middle East, Religion, Women
Note to Readers: There are images of FGM and sexually explicit statements in this post. Yes, you read that right – an Egyptian imam says FGM (female genital mutilation), which he calls female circumcision, has economic benefits. What’s more, he has a doozy...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 30, 2017 | Middle East, Religion, Women
This video about requiring women to wear the hijab is from a tweet by Ali A Rizvi with the comment “How times have changed.” It’s from 1958 and has been around for a while, but I think it deserves as much attention as possible. It’s a portion...
