Reading Time: < 1 minute In case you ever needed a dead giveaway that someone was an atheist:
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Paul Fidalgo
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U.S. Religious Freedom Commission Once Again Champions the Rights of Atheists
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In December, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) posted on its website an encouraging call for the decriminalization of atheism in countries where nonbelievers suffer persecution, and I blogged about it here. Happily, the commission has one-upped itself.
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Alber Saber Talks to the Press: ‘They Picked a Good Moment to Target Me’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Egyptian atheist blogger and activist Alber Saber, recently convicted of blasphemy and now out on bail awaiting an appeal, gave an interview to Maggie Fick of the Associated Press.
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Alber Saber Released on Bail, Appeal Date Set
Reading Time: < 1 minute A quick update on the situation facing Egyptian atheist blogger Alber Saber, who was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to three years in prison last week.
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U.S. Religious Freedom Commission: Atheism is Not a ‘Criminal Act’
Reading Time: < 1 minute After the banging of heads all of us at CFI have done to get attention focused on Aan’s case, and now in the midst of our efforts to shine a spotlight on restrictions on free expression around the world (which includes CFI’s significant contribution to the new IHEU report on atheists’ persecution), this was a pleasant surprise to see — and straight from the body that advises the president and State Department on these matters, no less.
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Egyptian Atheist Alber Saber Convicted and Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Blasphemy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Egypt has struck a major blow to the fundamental human right to freedom of expression, and unjustly stripped an innocent man of his freedom, as Alber Saber, the 27-year-old atheist activist and blogger, was convicted today of blasphemy and sentenced to three years in prison.
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Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ as an Animated Short
Reading Time: < 1 minute Found at io9, here’s a lovely kinetic-text-style animated interpretation of Carl Sagan‘s beautiful monologue from Pale Blue Dot:
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Susan Jacoby Resurrects the Legacy of Robert Ingersoll
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the cover story for the latest American Scholar, Susan Jacoby pens a truly enlightening look back at the impact of “the Great Agnostic” Robert Green Ingersoll, leading light of what she calls “the golden age of freethought.”
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Christianist Bobby Jindal’s Weak Prescription for GOP Success
Reading Time: 3 minutes Louisiana’s governor Bobby Jindal has been in the mix of probable GOP presidential contenders for what seems like ages now. A lot of that talk was muted after his bizarre and creepy response to the president’s first address to a joint session of Congress. You remember. The walk. The voice. The eyes. Anyway, he passed 2012 by without so much as a blip on most people’s radar.
Posted inComedy, Politics, Science
Are You High, Science?
Reading Time: < 1 minute So says W. Kamau Bell in this Actually.org video, in which he finds tongue-in-cheek common cause with Mitt Romney‘s ever-evolving positions on science issues (earning Bell the Quote of the Day at my CFI blog, The Morning Heresy). It seems like he feels very liberated: