Updates on Christchurch Shooting
— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen There has been an update on the trial of the mosque mass murderer and terrorist, Brenton Tarrant, charged with the murder of 51 people in Christchurch, in New Zealand. BBC...
View ArticleWomen of Color Beyond Belief Conference 2019
— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen *Attendance information at the bottom.* The Women of Color Beyond Belief Conference will be taking place from October 4 to 6, 2019, in Chicago at the Marriott Midway Hotel....
View ArticleNot-Moot Zoot on Clergy Coming Oot
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Winnipeg Free Press commented on Zoot Pictures and its work on non-believers. Leslea Mair, who is a filmmaker based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, worked on a project through Zoot...
View ArticleLosing Our Religion exposes the changing landscape of religion in North America
This post is a guest post by the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) Manitoba. Come out to the first ever Centre For Inquiry Canada (CFIC) Manitoba event. A screening of the documentary film, Losing Our...
View Article“Canada is a Christian country”
— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Vice News reported on a recent conservative and Christian event, not always easy to separate in the current sociopolitical context. This was in, of course, Ontario, and...
View ArticleDr. Leo Igwe on the Risks in Leaving Religion in Nigeria and an Upcoming...
Image Credit: Leo Igwe. By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Leo Igwe is the founder of the Nigerian Humanist Movement and former Western and Southern African representative of the International Humanist and...
View ArticleUnholy back for limited run
Unholy is coming back to Toronto for a short run in November, in a set of shows being filmed in front of a live audience for a TV special. Unholy Unholy is the award-winning play by Diane Flacks about...
View ArticleIraqi Atheists Arrested for Atheism
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Al-Monitor reported on the arrests sent out for Iraqis charged with the crime of atheism. The charges come through the Dhi Qar province Garraf district judiciary. Atheism as...
View Article“Is Christianity or Secular Humanism a better foundation for human rights?”
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen There was a recent conversation entitled “Is Christianity or Secular Humanism a better foundation for human rights?: A conversation Between a Christian and a Secular...
View ArticleHuman Rights Day 2017
Today, 10 December, is Human Rights Day. But this year’s Human Rights Day is a little different. Normally, the United Nations gives each Human Rights Day a theme. 2014’s theme was: Every day is Human...
View ArticleInternational Blasphemy Day 2016
Tomorrow (30 Sept) is International Blasphemy Day. Just one of many “Jesus LOL” memes. In honour of the day, and to protest the fact that we still have a blasphemy law in Canada, I’d like to open the...
View ArticleAnnouncing NONCON 2016
Get your tickets now; the Early Bird ticket price is available until April 22, 2016: EARLY BIRD Conference ticket includes: All Day Conference, buffet lunch and dinner, free parking, information and...
View ArticleDelusional Logic
I posted this chart from Something Surprising on January 28, 2012. The post disappeared when the site was attacked, so I’m posting it again: You may find the chart useful if you decide to watch...
View Article#GodDebate
On Wednesday, March 30, 2016, Shawn P. Conroy,* President, Central Ontario Humanists, and William Haughton, Co-ordinating Minister, Collier United Church, will debate the perennial question “Does God...
View ArticleSociety and Culture Lecture
Update: The dialogue between Larry Moran and Denis Alexander, “Is There a Conflict Between Science and Religion?” will be live streamed on YouTube at 7:00 PM ET, tomorrow, January 29. Wycliffe College...
View ArticleShift To Reason Conference
Saturday, 30 April 2016 Brainstorm Podcast’s Shift To Reason Conference is a really good reason to be in Regina at the end of April. As the organizers of “Saskatchewan’s first secular and skeptic...
View Article“‘Interfaith’ Symposium in Lindsay”
Pierre Thibault, a member of Atheist Freethinkers, attended the Interfaith Symposium that was held in Linsday, Ontario on November 21. Thibault has written a post on the event: On Saturday, November...
View ArticleArmin Navabi at Non-Con 2015
In a NicolSD/AtheismTV video, filmed at Non-Con 2015, Armin Navabi, founder of The Atheist Republic, tells us what it’s like to be an ex-Muslim in the Middle East.
View Article“God: Fact or Fiction?”
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at, Canada invites you to attend an Interfaith Symposium on Saturday, November 21 in Lindsay, Ontario. The Symposium will include a 15-20 minute presentation by each speaker...
View Article“Give Peace a Chance”
@OxfordWords reminds us today is International Day of Peace. In 2001, the General Assembly by unanimous vote adopted resolution 36/67, which established 21 September as an annual day of non-violence...
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