Does Religion Cause Violence?
Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have.
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
Religion
A collection of 121 posts
Islam's Liberal Counter-Insurgency
In her new book ‘The Battle for British Islam,’ campaigner Sara Khan offers a work of admirable frankness, determination, and moral clarity.
Jamie Palmer
· 7 min read
The Hijab and the Regressive Left’s Absurd Campaign to Betray Freethinking Women
By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 9 min read
Fleeing Theocracy: An Asylum Seeker's Defence of the West
With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself.
AR Devine
· 7 min read
Review: Islam and the Future of Tolerance
The doctrine of inerrancy, on the other hand, places intolerable constraints on polite conversation, our only known alternative to violence.
Oliver Waters
· 5 min read
Liberalism’s Great Challenge: How Can We Critique Ideas while Protecting People?
The words are usually associated with Eastern or New Age spirituality, and they sound as bizarre on the tongue of a science-minded atheist as an Arab Bible-believer.
Valerie Tarico
· 9 min read
In Defence of Christians
Ben Sixsmith
· 3 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A woman whose life story, by any rational, humane standards, should win encomia from, and the admiration of, decent people everywhere.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 18 min read
The Josiah Effect: How Moderate Religion Fuels Fundamentalism
As it turns out, the phenomenon of a young man becoming radicalized after reading his religion’s holy book for the first time has been around for thousands of years.
Henry Rambow
· 10 min read
Reza Aslan Peddles False Wares to Influential Dupes
Aslan peddles a sanitized version of Islam to gullible viewers.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 14 min read
Free Speech and Islam — The Left Betrays the Most Vulnerable
The misguided progressives who denounce “Islamophobia” and turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of, say, women, gays, and adherents of other religions in Muslim communities or in Islamic countries constitute what Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “regressive left.”
Jeffrey Tayler
· 10 min read
In Their Rush To Blame Religion, New Atheists Overlook Evil
Pragmatists differ from rationalists by viewing unfiltered criticism of religion as a painfully counterproductive way to proceed.
Timothy Rowe
· 5 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris
If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
Why Charlie Hebdo Was Right to Address the Brussels Attacks
Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights.
Tehmina Kazi
· 5 min read
Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam
The removal of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, he argued, would be a deliverance, and the nobility of the project to help build a democracy in its place ought to be self-evident.
Jamie Palmer
· 13 min read