From today’s New York Times: Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, [...]

America’s Best Christian, Mrs Betty Bowers, explains to less informed Christians (and hell-bound others) the curious details of the Lord’s concept of marriage.

So the word of the Koran compels Muslims to terrorise the infidel. Or not?

Yes, even the Archbishop of Canterbury has dumped the Pope and his church: says Irish Catholic church has lost all credibility over paedophile priests

Sam Harris’s TED Talk will challenge even many heathens and infidels as he takes on the Christians’ last stand – that you can’t be moral without a god

they voluntarily clap on their chains, hood their heads and lock their prison doors, while offering up a prayer of gratitude for their relief from uncertainty

Children do what is natural because they are human. Then religious parents turn their “sinful” natural lives into a horror story in which they are the monster.

Cherie Blair, wife of the notorious war criminal, suspended the sentence of a man who broke another man’s jaw in a bank queue, because he is “religious”.

The situation in Palestine now inexorably drives and inflames global politics. 9/11, Afghanistan, the rise of islamic fundamentalism all feed from this one trough. Not any amount of cosmetic or diplomatic pretense, no “negotiated compromise”, no artificial “roadmap to peace” will make any difference at all.

god may be dead but don’t let’s upset the natives – they’ve got guns and bombs and exploding underwear and if you’re unkind to them they might set them off. So let’s pretend for the sake of a peaceful life that he’s not dead, okay?

Okay, so, we’re not saying Islam (qua Islam) is a necessarily violent religion but, well, let the islamists tell you themselves.

religious zealots and catholic crackpots taking over civil society to spread their preposterous beliefs and protect their absurdities from public critical scutiny. So the Republic of Ireland has just brought in its new Blasphemy Law. Not everyone is happy about that, including Atheist Ireland which has published a list of 25 so-called “blasphemies”.

Transparency International has released its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2009. There are some very surprising results

It’s enough to make you want to just give up and forget it all and look at some funny cat video.

“The Iranian people have voted in favour of a fight against arrogance,” screamed the criminally-insane Ayatollah arrogantly