by Heather Hastie | Apr 26, 2016 | Religion
My front door is a ranchslider, so when two women knocked on it yesterday I could see they were missionaries. I answered it anyway, and let the one who did the talking give her spiel. I told her I thought Seventh Day Adventists were evil with all their rubbish talk of...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 24, 2016 | Middle East, Religion, Women
Over and over again conservative representatives of Islam try to tell us that not only are women respected within their religion, they are more respected than women in secular countries. Any criticism of the treatment of women is dismissed as lack of understanding, or...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 5, 2016 | Religion, US Politics
Most reasonable people, including myself, have been appalled by the possibility that Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States. He is currently way ahead in the delegate count and there’s a mathematical possibility that he’ll reach the...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 6, 2016 | Middle East, Religion
Just when you thought the most ridiculous thing you’d read this year so far was my post about Saudi cleric Ali Al-Maliki confidently asserting that the West tampers with burgers so more female babies will be born there, I can go one better. According to MEMRI TV...
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 14, 2016 | Religion, USA
It’s been a while since I mentioned Reza Aslan. For myself, I don’t know whether he’s duplicitous, whether he really believes what he says, or whether there’s another explanation. I do know that much of what he says is inaccurate. It’s...
