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The curse of religion

By A.C. Grayling
The Guardian
July 2, 2009

That religious leaders have joined forces on euthanasia is not surprising – favouring dogma over kindness is standard fare


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EU resolve hardens as British workers face Iran show trial

Younes Khani
The Times
July 3, 2009

Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic. Tensions between the Iranian theocracy and the EU rose as a hardline Ayatollah accused Britain of attempting to undermine the regime and EU officials expressed concern that confessions may have been extracted by torture, leaving the door open for a wholesale withdrawal of EU diplomats from the country.


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The Prurient Trap
The New York Times
By CHARLES M. BLOW
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It’s not religion, stupid

By Mehdi Hasan
The Guardian
June 17, 2009

Religion, in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace – and it is naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.


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Let’s Talk About God
Newsweek
by Lisa Miller
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What should science do? Sam Harris v. Philip Ball



June 23, 2009

Sam Harris and Philip Ball discuss the conflict between religion and science. They do not agree…


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June 25
Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
preposterousuniverse.com
SEAN CARROLL
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June 21
The World As I See It
Speaking of Faith
Albert Einstein
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June 19