Devadasi; “servants of god”
A couple of interesting articles in today’s Guardian highlight the shocking practice of devadasi which is found mainly in Southern India. This tradition, which continues despite being outlawed in 1988,…
Darrel Ray’s Survey Needs YOUR Help!
Atheism and Sex: take part in the survey (more…)
Faulty Towers! (sic)
Gay couple awarded damages by Christian hotel owners (more…)
Friendly atheists
Generous atheists outpace religious giving (more…)
Go forth and multiply
Believers’ gene will spread religion, says academic (more…)
Angry at nothing
“Anger at God common, even among atheists” (more…)
Crossing the flaw (sic)
First Anglicans received into the Roman Catholic Church (more…)
No religion? You’re not alone! – British Social Attitudes Survey
Religion: respecting the minority
This post is from the Guardian (thanks to Asad for flagging this up)
Every year, researchers from the British Social Attitudes survey ask a representative sample of British people whether they regard themselves as belonging to any particular religion and, if so, to which one? When the survey first asked these questions in 1985, 63% of the respondents answered that they were Christians, compared with 34% who said they had no religion (the rest belonged to non-Christian religions).
DNA identifies new ancient human
Separate type of human co-existed and interbred with our own species (more…)
Thoughtless for the day
Pope’s Christmas message to be broadcast on BBC’s Radio 4 (more…)