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The Myth of “The Media”
A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper with Ben Radford
August 15, 2014
Blaming “the media” is not only vague writing and lazy thinking, but it is also ineffective. Here's why.
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God is Telling Us to Go to Commercial
The Morning Heresy with Paul the Morning Heretic
August 14, 2014
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
Quick note: There will be no Morning Heresy tomorrow, and the blog will resume Monday.
The rights to free expression and a free press were put into grave question last night in Ferguson, MO. I honestly don't know how to handle this here in the Heresy, so I think I'll leave it at that for now and encourage you to read up.
Indonesia's Supreme Court upholds the blasphemy sentence against atheist Alexander Aan (who has served his full sentence).
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Some with Bewildered Looks
The Morning Heresy with Paul the Morning Heretic
August 13, 2014
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
The Vatican calls upon world religions, particularly Muslims, to speak out against the violence and persecution perpetrated by ISIS:
All must be unanimous in condemning unequivocally these crimes and in denouncing the use of religion to justify them. If not, what credibility will religions, their followers and their leaders have?
Speaking of ISIS, did you know that Hillary Clinton conspired to bring it to power? Apparently this is a thing now.
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Neurons in a Doughnut
The Morning Heresy with Paul the Morning Heretic
August 12, 2014
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
Robin Williams died yesterday, apparently by suicide, at age 63. I posted my immediate thoughts here.
Though not explicitly within the skepto-atheist wheelhouse, the situation in Ferguson, Missouri has major implications for free expression and assembly. Here's a good, succinct look at why.
Point of Inquiry this week has a fascinating discussion on how rational people could have allowed World War I, 100 years after its start, with MIT historian Christopher Capozzola.
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