Freethought News & Atheism 101
Where many other states in similar positions failed in democratic consolidation in the midsts of long-running military dictatorship, Indonesia’s decentralization has proven bountiful and baneful for the substantive rights for which we would hope in a modern democracy. For example, while running for a second term, Basuki (“Ahok”) Purnama wound
Three scholars published in Evolutionary Psychology Science have made a claim that the post-industrial world’s muting of the thinning of “fitness-damaging genetic mutations,” that a predisposition to a lack of belief in God (atheism) is associated with “four indicators of [a high] mutational load” (poor genetic health, fluctuating asymmetry, left-handedness, and
A Sacramento Bee post illustrates the changing religious demography in relation to millennials (youths born in the U.S. post 1980) and how 88 percent may be celebrating the Christmas holiday, that only 44% of those see it as religious. In their usual journalism that is, as always, conspicuously unburdened with
Hindu nationalism has been on the rise socially and politically in India and received the baton of civil authority under the ascension of Narendra Modi to the prime ministership in 2014. Since that time beef for consumption has been banned, and a man who was once denied entry to the
For years, Coptics and other Christians have faced violent persecution in the Sunni Muslim-majority (90%) Egypt. Two laws relating to the construction of religious buildings were enacted in the last 16 years, the first concerning the construction of mosques (2001) and the second, Christian churches (2016). The distinction between them
A volunteer attorney with the pro-religion in the public sphere advocacy organization “First Liberty” has been appointed to a seat on the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jim C. Ho to the position this week. Judge Ho’s past work has involved allowing religious individuals to
The US Secretary of Education is teaching us all a lesson in the need for competence and secularity in political appointees responsible for such critical features as the funding of the education of our children.