December 2020 Dates of Interest
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Operation Christmas Child: Thinking Critically About the Gift Boxes
Sandra Dunham Every year I curse at the radio when I hear the frequent ads for Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child is a program of Samaritan’s Purse. This year, I heard an interview with a Samaritan’s Purse representative on our national broadcaster, CBC. I find it unfathomable that CBC would give airtime to this…
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Dr. Narendra Dhabolkar: The Indian James Randi
John Varghese James “The Amazing” Randi’s death last month, after a lifetime of exposing charlatans and chicanery, raked up a seven-year-old wound I didn’t know I was carrying. In August 2013, a similar life of struggle against irrationality, superstition, and exploitation of the credulous ended when Dr. Narendra Dhabolkar, a mild-mannered, soft-spoken rationalist was shot…
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Canadian Secular Alliance Submission to the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression
Leslie Rosenblood The Canadian Commission for Democratic Expression (CCDE) is a project of the Public Policy Forum, which seeks to “study and publish advice on how to prevent and mitigate the negative effects of illegal and other forms of harmful online content on democracy in Canada while encouraging robust democratic debate and dialogue.” Seven Canadian…
Iran Executes Navid Afkari
Scott Douglas Jacobsen If you want to murder someone with an illegitimate excuse, then a decent manner in which to do so is the excuse of the State, as such, whether secular-authoritarian or theocratic. Navid Afkari was executed. Afkari was a wrestler accused of murder who had “international appeals for him to be spared.” In…