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We can force people into two sex buckets with narrow-mindedness or we can acknowledge that human biology is messy and personal identity messier still.

The person or a community who was wronged letting the perpetrator know they aren't harbouring ongoing resentment or possibly blame. I think so and I get creeped out by the idea that it's automatically the right thing to forgive. It may be relatively innocuous when it comes to jerks who want...

Terrific evidence based arguments for secular religious pluralism.

Take heart that those unliveable wages are shifting the companies burden of paying their workers onto the taxpayer, where it belongs!.

The idea that science and religion can be complimentary still seems misplaced to me. Obviously people can be religious and accept scientific explanations about the world but it seems that religious thinking is not a hinderance at best because people are great at compartmentalising their thoughts...

I ought to point out that the accommodations that purpleoscar puts forth is exactly the kind of sliding intransigence that I have alluded to, quite possibly in this thread, of deliberate ignorance leading to limited acknowledgement of a problem until the cost-benefit is problematic. A thinking...

Christopher Hitchens is dead. His writing has influenced the way I think. I value his contribution to the argument.

I don't see anything wrong with this. It doesn't seem coercive and the problems that people have with it are more a reflection upon them than the family.

Irvine posted a much wiser aphorism before. If the definition of wisdom is to accept the extraordinary on faith and acting on that then I think the worldly objection that it is foolish stands up quite well.

Millionaire lottery winners are probably a significant drain on the welfare system and I can see why I should get upset about this.

Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness" and again, “The Lord knows that...

How is Osama Bin Laden not religious?

There is little wrong with having between two and only two people.

Don't you believe in biblical marriage?

I think that holding this type of religious clothing as an example of free expression is a very modern take on something derived from a time when women were treated as chattel. Obligatory modesty codes that says women must cover themselves because men cannot help themselves should be problematic...

If those protestors were genuinely committed to secularism then they wouldn't be discriminating against one theocracy.

It's a pity that ideologies don't have a body to kill.

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Look, you have to break a few eggs to bring babies into dire living circumstances without any social safety nets.

An illiberal law to persecute an illiberal faith. My secular principles dissagree with this law but I don't support the burqa.

Kevin Grandia | Who is 'Rocket Scientist' David Evans? I think that your want for climate change to be make believe clouds your judgements PurpleOscar.

Larry Page could be an example.

No it isn't. Philosophy is valuable for making sense of the world and is essential for understanding knowledge. I cringe at scientists who attack philosophy as useless when in fact it can approach ethical and existential issues in a way that compliments a scientific outlook.

:up: They certainly are a pleasure to read, and Ancestors Tale is my favourite Dawkins book.

It's sensible. YouTube - Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie :up: