Religious bigotry

Ressentiment at World Youth Day corpse veneration and state-sectarian largesse?

The Thinker's Podium - June 30, 2008 - 5:23pm

A lot has been made of the fact that the corpse of a dead Catholic priest will be guest starring at World Youth Day. Sure, to a lot of us (myself included) it’s weird. Indeed, perhaps very weird.

Aside from the weirdness, what can be taken from the phenomena that is this corpse veneration. Read more »

The “Islam isn’t a race” red herring / straw man

The Thinker's Podium - June 7, 2008 - 2:15am

Islam isn’t a race. So what?

You’d think with the amount of times we’ve all probably heard this that the statement would at least be meaningful. Of course it isn’t. It’s just stating the obvious and stating it in retort to an assertion nobody ever made (i.e. that Islam is a race). Read more »