I was delighted to find that you can read Bertrand Russell’s “Why I Am Not A Christian” online. It remains as wise — and funny — as when I first read it in college. It was Russell who first challenged, for me, the unspoken assumption that, whatever else Jesus might have been, he was a [...]
20 August 2008
The Freethinker › Satan’s behind all that bare Olympic flesh
In an interview aired on Iqra TV on July 26, 2007 Al-Munajid declared:
There are rules of shari’a in everything. We have counted almost 70 rules about how to urinate and defecate. In contrast, how do those beasts in the West answer the call of nature? They stand in front of other people, in toilets at [...]
20 August 2008
Epicurus on the help of friends
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
– Epicurus
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That was one of the lessons I’ve learned over the last year. The things I faced, well, I had to face. My sister, my mother, my friends — they may have wanted to help, to [...]
