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Frank Furedi
How atheism became a religion in all but name
It was only a matter of time before someone proposed an ‘atheist temple’, given the religious-
like zealotry and dogma of the New Atheists.
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| Tuesday 8 November 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Taking a knife to liberty and tolerance
A Dutch proposal to ban kosher and halal slaughter represents another assault on religious freedom in Europe.
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| Thursday 30 June 2011 |
Patrick West
Father Kit: neither monster nor saint
It’s a shock to the system when you discover that an old family friend was once a ‘paedophile priest’.
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| Friday 13 May 2011 |
Tim Black
The tyranny of science
More and more scientists fancy themselves as gods, with a duty to enlighten those who are ‘deluded to the point of perversity’.
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| Thursday 21 April 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
This Easter, try to avoid the Gospel of Grayling
The underlying message of the New Atheists’ ‘secular bibles’ is far more soul-destroying than anything in the original Good Book.
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| Thursday 10 March 2011 |
Tim Black
For God’s sake, stop censoring ads
The effective banning of UK humanist adverts that dared to mention the G-word confirms that protecting hurt feelings now trumps free speech.
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| Monday 7 February 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Don’t blame tolerance for this multicultural mess
David Cameron is right to slam multiculturalism, but wrong to blame tolerance for fostering today’s lily-livered non-judgmentalism.
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| Monday 25 October 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Don’t ban the burqa - but don’t celebrate it, either
Both Europe’s burqa-banners and burqa-defenders are denigrating tolerance by inviting the state to police our beliefs and thoughts.
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| Monday 20 September 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘Pope Benedict is an enemy of the state’
Saturday’s demo against the pope confirmed that he has been transformed into an Emmanuel Goldstein figure for so-called humanists to hate.
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| Thursday 16 September 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Crusade against the pope: an Inquisition-in-Reverse
The campaigners against the pope’s visit have more in common with the fanatical Inquisitors of old than with Enlightened liberal humanists.
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| Thursday 16 September 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
The White Atheists’ Burden: save the savages
The idea that the pope is responsible for spreading AIDS in Africa is built on some very dodgy, colonial-style prejudices.
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| Thursday 16 September 2010 |
Kevin Rooney
What really gets their goat about Catholicism
The current Catholic-baiting springs from the cultural elite’s suspicion of anyone who, unlike them, has strong beliefs.
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| Thursday 16 September 2010 |
Tim Black
Bringing blasphemy back from the dead
As the pope arrives in Britain, the Advertising Standards Authority bans an anti-Catholic advert. Where are the protests?
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| Tuesday 14 September 2010 |
Sean Collins
The Koran controversy: what was that all about?
It was the profound jitteriness of Western society that allowed one cranky pastor from Florida with 50 followers to hold the whole world to ransom.
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| Tuesday 7 September 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Turning the pope into an Antichrist for atheists
The great irony of the campaign against the pope is that it uses the same process of demonology that the Catholic Church once excelled at.
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| Wednesday 28 July 2010 |
Kevin Rooney
The backwardness of Catholic-bashing
Far from being enlightened, the attacks on Catholicism ahead of the pope’s UK visit are illiberal, censorious and ignorant.
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| Monday 19 July 2010 |
Tim Black
Banning the burqa is an assault on secular values
The fools who want to obliterate the face veil in the name of Enlightened values clearly don't know what Enlightenment is all about.
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| Wednesday 19 May 2010 |
Josie Appleton
Defend the Republic! Ban the burqa!
When so few European women wear the full veil, why are governments falling over themselves to ban it? It’s pseudo-libertarian grandstanding.
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| Wednesday 19 May 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Mocking Muhammad:
a shallow Enlightenment
Of course people should be free to say ‘I shit on Muhammad’. But here’s a question: why are they so keen to say it?
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| Friday 14 May 2010 |
Tim Black
The real reason the bishop likes migrants
Archbishop Rowan Williams is ‘pro-immigration’ only in the sense that he hopes the arrival of foreigners will remind Britain of its core values.
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