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Christmas, Atheism, and Intolerance

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

I’m not talking about Jews like me. When I was growing up, Christmas wasn’t a time for minority outrage; it was a blissfully quiet day when we might go out for Chinese food…

A view of Pakistan's landmark Faisal Mosque at sunset October 8, 2002.

In largely Muslim Pakistan, a taboo atheist subculture endures

July 17, 2017Culture
A photo of Bangladeshi American blogger, Avijit Roy, last year holding a book on Rabindranath Tagore. Roy blogged about scientific thought and apathy towards religion, taboo subjects in his home country of Bangladesh.

An atheist blogger in Bangladesh is hacked to death by religious fanatics

February 27, 2015Belief

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