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Discussing atheism in highly religious countries May 11, 2017

With the news replete with stories of humanists and freethinkers killed and persecuted for ‘blasphemy’ around the world, Alex Sinclair-Lack asks ‘How candid can I be about my beliefs’? All humanists must grapple with the question of when it is appropriate to tell people that you don’t believe in their god, and when, if ever, […]

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Seven reasons why this year’s Easter egg debacle was ridiculous April 13, 2017

Last week, the Archbishop of York criticised the National Trust and Cadbury for dropping the word ‘Easter’ from the name of their annual egg hunt. This prompted Prime Minister Theresa May to take time out of her visit to the Middle East to state: ‘I think the stance they have taken is absolutely ridiculous.’ Here […]

Rachel Taggart-Ryan

The people who keep us safe March 27, 2017

Heroes are not the stuff of myth: they keep us safe each and every day It’s normal when confronted by horrific events someplace in the world to feel a mixture of emotions. Grief, for the victims whose stories you have read about in the papers. Anger, for the fact that such a tragedy could be […]

Liam Whitton

Highlights from Young Humanists’ ‘ask me anything’ session with the co-founder of Faith to Faithless March 24, 2017

Young Humanists is the section of the BHA specifically for humanists aged 18-35. It runs a regular Twitter debate once a month using the hashtag #YHDebate. March’s debate took the form of an ‘ask me anything’ (AMA) with Imtiaz Shams, a BHA trustee who is also the co-founder of Faith to Faithless, which provides support and […]

Daniel Wardle

The BHA isn’t always thought of for its campaigning on Relationships and Sex Education, but it should be March 21, 2017

As a charity that operates within the field of religion and belief, the BHA’s work on education issues tends to be associated most with its campaigning on ‘faith’ schools and against the various freedoms to discriminate along religious lines that they enjoy. What we are less well-known for, perhaps, is our decades of campaigning around […]

Jay Harman

The Morning Heresy

Information Vacuum

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. There’s a lot of bad, ugly news this morning, as you are no doubt aware. A suicide bomber kills 22 people, many of them children, at a concert in Manchester, UK. ISIS claims direct responsibility. Meanwhile, when what we all need is more sanity and reas […]

“Globster” Mysteries

Cryptozoologists call them “globsters”—great decaying masses usually seen when they wash ashore somewhere. The unidentified carcasses are typically called “sea monsters”—until science determines their true identity. Such a creature—a 50-foot leviathan—appeared on an Indonesian island beach in early May 2017. The rotting corpse was first thought to be that of […]

At Least Two Minutes

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Trump goes to Saudi Arabia, probably to pick up some tips on theocratic oppression. He gave a speech, and notably did not use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” which we are told will solve All World Problems when uttered by someone in power, so I […]

Oh You Rock Up to Church

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Yesterday we announced that the winner of the 2016 Balles Prize in Critical Thinking is going to Maria Konnikova for her book The Confidence Game. She’ll pick up her award at CSICon in October, and I think I’ll actually be the one presenting it. I hope […]

Ding Dong

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. First up, check out the latest Cause & Effect newsletter, if for no other reason than it opens with a comforting picture of Stephen Fry having some tea. Roger Ailes, who helped bring Nixon to power, who created the lie-factory of Fox News, who fomen […]

In Pitiless Succession

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Of course you know the big news already. HTC made a phone you can SQUEEZE. Oh, also: Trump asked Comey to end his investigation of Michael “Good Guy” Flynn. Plus, he suggested to Comey that they jail journalists who publish leaked information. Lawrence […]

Douse the Computers!

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Richard Dawkins is profiled at The Times (UK), where he discusses a wide range of topics, including his belief that humanity’s treatment of animals is our great moral blind spot. Humanist Voices interviews one of the secular activists I most admire, G […]

Some Kind of Dirt Hamster

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Richard Dawkins talks to the Irish Times about blasphemy laws (and how the Irish government really must be embarrassed about its own). Stephen Fry, who Dawkins defended recently on the blasphemy issue, explains the dangers of “the illusion of knowledge […]

Kind of YInMn

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. After the absurd spectacle of Ireland investigating Stephen Fry for blasphemy, which prompted Richard Dawkins to challenge Irish authorities to arrest him for his own blasphemy, New Zealand wises up and decides to scrap its blasphemy law. Not lookin’ so […]

We Love to Exclude You

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. My mind is clearer now. At last I can see all too well where we all soon will be. CFI and its programs have signed on with other orgs to support the Ex-Muslims of North America calling on Facebook to stop shutting down the pages of secularists and ex-M […]