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Migrants and Their Tragedies: Yes We Can Fucking Share
Pope Francis. Love him or hate him, every once in a while he does something rather remarkable. The Catholic Church’s official position on the European migrant crisis has been consistently impressive. From an initial plea to Europe to get off … Continue reading
Sicarii, Assassins, and the Islamic State: A Pattern Emerges
Total holy war and suicide attacks are nothing new. History has kept a long list of organizations popping up, committing atrocities in the name of god, and then suffering absolute defeat—sometimes these campaigns are coupled with ironic consequences for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Islam, Islamic State, political science, politics, Religion
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Republican Primary Voters’ Polling Data: Let’s Make the US a Christian Nation
Today I came across this report from Public Policy Polling after the group polled a few hundred Republican Primary voters. A brief methodology is attached to their report: PPP surveyed 316 Republican primary voters from February 20th to 22nd. The … Continue reading
A Brief Analysis of the ISIS Problem Post-Burning Video
“ISIS Burns Jordanian Pilot Alive” has been a major headline in the news during the last two days. It’s such a major story that the news articles of the Jordanian executions of Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouli have been swallowed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Conflict, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, politics, Religion, War
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Shooting Down Flying Carpets: Let’s stay on topic about Islamic terrorism
There are two major fallacies defenders of Islam make when addressing the problem of Islamic terror. In the wake of yesterday’s terror attack in Paris, I’ve seen these employed with fervor. These are the magic get-out-of-jail-free cards that can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, God, Islam, Islamic Terrorism, politics, Religion, terrorism
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The worst argument in politics: God
Remember when we were small children, completely ignorant to domestic politics, completely unaware that foreign policy and global politics existed? When we were mere lads and lasses we couldn’t care less about what those men in suits said who kept our … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, foreign policy, God, Israel, Palestine, politics, Religion, Secularism
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An open letter to atheists, Christians, and Muslims about working together to condemn ISIS
My criticism of religion must take a back seat for a moment. Lately I’ve been writing a lot more about ISIS — and with good cause. The Islamic State is the perfect example of what happens when religion goes horribly … Continue reading
Moralism Islamic terrorists can learn from the Westboro Baptist Church (More death threats)
One of the things I find rather striking about Islam is how quick its members are to lobbing threats of violence and death. As I wrote about before, I received death threats from Muslims and alleged members of ISIS after … Continue reading
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Tagged Allah, Atheism, atheist, atheists, Christianity, Christians, God, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jesus, Muhammad, politics, Quran, Religion, the bible, The Prophet Muhammad, the Quran, westboro baptist church
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On ISIS, death threats, and free speech
The above image is one example of the many death threats I’ve received from radical Islamists after I posted two videos to Youtube where I burned the Islamic State’s flag (Part 1 and Part 2). I’m not worried about these … Continue reading
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Tagged Allah, Atheism, atheist, atheists, free speech, God, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Muhammad, politics, Quran, Religion, Secularism, The Prophet Muhammad, the Quran, Youtube
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Burn ISIS Flag Challenge (Part 2)
Yesterday’s burning of the ISIS flag was in solidarity with the people of Lebanon, who are threatened with arrest if they burn the actual ISIS flag (they can only burn flags with no religious words). I used a variation of … Continue reading
