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Auē a Tau Kē – 2015 Update: Bangladesh, Serco, Kim Davis, Rosa Rubicondior
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...
Tau Kē Tēnei Wiki: An Atheist Christmas
I celebrate Christmas. Not Christ's mass, but all the other stuff. I have a big Christmas tree with lights and decorations, other decorations around the house, and my front windows all have lights in them to delight passers by. New Zealand pretty much closes down over...
The Vigilant Christian’s Response to the New Harry Potter Prequel
I saw something I consider falls into the category of "great news" yesterday: in 2016 the new Harry Potter prequel is coming out. I love the Harry Potter books and movies and I've been looking forward to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for a while. Fantastic...
Auē Tēnei Wiki: Saudi Arabia Increases Raif Badawi’s Suffering
As most of you will already know, Raif Badawi is a Saudi Arabian blogger who was sentenced to ten years prison and 1,000 lashes for criticizing his country's form of government. As the country's law is Sharia, that amounts to criticizing Islam and is thus blasphemy....
Tau Kē Tēnei Wiki: GOP Disavows Trump
It's about time really. Ever since he entered the race to become the Republican party's candidate for the 2016 presidency, Donald Trump has been abusing and insulting just about every demographic imaginable. Despite that, he has continued to mostly lead the polls and...
#SueMeSaudi
I've written about the appalling justice system in Saudi Arabia before in The Injustice of Sharia in Saudi Arabia and also specifically about the case of Raif Badawi, a blogger serving a sentence of ten years and 1,000 lashes simply for disagreeing with the type of...
Tau Kē Tēnei Wiki: Some Funnies
You may have noticed there was no Tau Kē Tēnei Wiki yesterday. I just couldn't think of anything positive to write about. However, it's still Sunday in some parts of the world, so I thought I'd just put up a few funnies for you to enjoy. You gotta wonder just what the...
Auē Tēnei Wiki: Fox News Coverage of the California Massacre
We're back to the show I both love, but frequently gets me all riled up - Fox New's The Five. On Friday (Thursday US time) they discussed the horrific events in San Bernadino, California at length, insisting it was terrorism, and being angry with the FBI (and, by...
Jeff Sparrow Says Atheism Needs to be Saved from Dawkins and Harris
Back in mid-September I did a post called 'Is New Atheism a Cult?' The discussion is still going on - so far there are 336 comments. A few days ago a link was posted there by a commenter to an Alternet article by Guardian journalist Jeff Sparrow called 'We Can Save...
Climate Change and the United States
As regular readers will know, I enjoy Fox News's The Five, which is a US show in which five co-hosts (four conservative and one liberal) discuss current events. Because of the political leanings of most of the co-hosts, I rarely agree with them, but I enjoy the...
Tau Kē Tēnei Wiki: A New Refugee Centre for New Zealand
As a New Zealander, I'm proud to say that my country is not only improving the facilities for new refugees coming here, but increasing our capacity so we can take even more than we do currently. Pride wouldn't normally be my response in this matter. As one of the...
Auē Tēnei Wiki: Terrorism in Colorado
I watched the events at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs unfold on TV on Saturday (Friday US time), mostly on Fox News. Throughout they were careful, as any news organisation should be, not to attribute any motive to the gunman. (For those that don't know,...