Freethinker of the Month
The Fayetteville Freethinkers just made my day. I just found out that they made me their ‘freethinker of the month’ after reading the article I was recently asked to write for the latest edition of Skeptical Inquirer about my complaint to the ASA about HOTS Bath. You should check out the Fayetteville Freethinkers site and forum – I love seeing successful grassroots organisations like this that really work. and these guys have been going since 1998 – when I was just starting Senior School. Thank you to them for this kind honour.
Also, thank you to all of those who have read the SI article and then made contact with kind words afterwards. It does mean a lot – and the end of the article… I meant every word of it.
My saddening experience with r/atheism
Just four days after Jen McCreight wrote about awful comments being made about her by people on the r/atheism group on Reddit I logged into my website stats and noticed a huge amount of hits from r/atheism, and my heart sank.
Keep calm and carry on
*update two* Since my last couple of posts on my blog I have been accused of being a hypocrite because I sometimes discuss the behaviour of others who are skeptical and yet said others were wrong for doing so.
It’s not quite as simple as that and I’m sorry if my blog posts may have misled people into thinking I was saying that we should never ever hold people accountable for their actions or behaviours. Let me clarify, in the simplest of ways, what it was I was actually saying.
Offensive adverts vs. misleading adverts
Some people seem shocked that I don’t agree with the recent decision to not run the ‘gay cure’ advert on London buses because I made a complaint about the Christian groups ‘Healing on the Streets‘ and an advert they were handing out.
I find it concerning that so many people cannot understand why I would have a problem with one advert and not another.
I support…
