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Gilded Altars, Empty Bowls: The Church’s Obsession with Gold While the Poor Starve

Introduction Gold glitters across altars, chalices, and crosses. It adorns vestments and ceilings, shimmering in candlelight as choirs sing beneath domes painted with saints. To the believer, this radiance may suggest the light of heaven. To the critic, it speaks of earthly wealth disguised as holiness. For centuries the Christian world has surrounded itself with […]

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From Molecules to Meaning: How Abiogenesis Will Pull the Last Rug from Under Religion

Introduction: The Final Mystery Religion has spent centuries retreating from the expanding frontier of human knowledge. When thunder was unexplained, it was a god’s anger. When disease spread, it was punishment. When life diversified, it was divine design. Each time, science switched on the light and the shadows fled. Today, the final shadow is the

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Half a Face, Half a Freedom: When God Spoke Only to Men

Opening – One Eye Open In May 2022 the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice decreed that Afghan women must cover their faces in public, ideally wearing the full-body burqa leaving only the eyes visible (PBS NewsHour). In August 2024 that decree became formal law, part of a morality code

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The Flood Myth, Why It’s Good It Never Happened

Foreword Across Facebook and YouTube, a new style of creationist content has taken hold. It sounds calm. It uses scientific vocabulary. It sprinkles in fossils, volcanoes, salinity, even the word “isotope”. Then, after the polite tour, it reveals the destination: “This is consistent with Noah’s Flood.” It is not science. It is theology in a

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Thought Crime: The Oldest Sin

Introduction: The Mind Under Siege Thought crime is the purest tyranny. It punishes not deeds, but ideas. In 1984 George Orwell made it literal: the Party prosecutes citizens for thoughtcrime, using telescreens, hidden microphones, reenactment, minders. But totalitarian regimes are not the only offenders. Religion long ago claimed the same domain: inner life, doubt, desire,

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Articles, Science & Reason

Atheists Don’t Believe Everything Came From Nothing

1. What Atheism Actually Means The claim that “atheists believe everything came from nothing” is one of the most repeated but least accurate arguments used against non-believers. It is catchy, confident, and completely wrong. To dismantle it, one must start at the beginning: what atheism actually is. Atheism is the absence of belief in gods

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Criticism Isn’t Hatred: Why We Must Defend the Right to Debate Islam

Introduction Few words in modern discourse are as misunderstood as Islamophobia. It is used to describe genuine prejudice and violence against Muslims, yet it is also deployed to silence reasoned criticism of Islamic ideas. This confusion has paralysed honest debate and made intellectual inquiry feel like moral trespass. It is possible, indeed essential, to oppose

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