Archives

Below is a list of all articles posted so far on the Freethought Kampala blog, in chronological order (bottom-up):

JANUARY 2012:

• Two Years of the Freethought Kampala Blog

• Freethought Kampala in La Raison

• Freethinkers’ Night: January 2012 – Promoting Critical Thinking

DECEMBER 2011:

• Freethinkers’ Night: December 2011 – Party!

• Cardiff – Where Churches Have Become Shops

• Interesting Christmas Segment on Sanyu FM News – Atheist Interviewed On Local Radio

• Uganda Humanist Association Responds to the Archbishop of Church of Uganda

• Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)

NOVEMBER 2011:

• Two Highly Popular African Christian Books: Snatched From Satan’s Claws & Delivered From The Powers Of Darkness

• Freethinkers’ Night: November 2011 – Population

• Thank You, Andy Thomson

• Freethought Kampala in The Guardian

• The UK-Ireland Tour – Highlights

OCTOBER 2011:

• Freethinkers’ Night: October 2011 – CORRUPTION IN UGANDA

• UK/Ireland Speaking Tour – Day #10 – Lewes

• UK/Ireland Speaking Tour – Day #9 – London

• UK/Ireland Speaking Tour – Day #8 – Edinburgh

• UK/Ireland Speaking Tour – Day #7 – Belfast

• UK/Ireland Speaking Tour – Day #6 – Dublin

• UK/Ireland Speaking Tour – Day #2 – Cardiff

SEPTEMBER 2011:

• ‘There Are No Gods’ – by TheraminTrees

• The Atheist-Skeptic Movement and Minorities

• Atheism, Theism & Ethics

• Freethinkers’ Night: September 2011 – Education in Uganda

• UK Speaking Tour

• Elevatorgate – Part 2 – The Failure of Skepticism

• Elevatorgate

AUGUST 2011:

• Epistemology – Part 2 – The Gettier Problem

• Freethinkers’ Night: August 2011 – Why All The Fuss Over Mabira Forest?

• Ugandan Doctors – Balancing Medical Science and Magical Thinking

• SERIES: Epistemology

• Epistemology – Part 1 – Knowledge

• Defining Things Into Existence – The Super Invisible Immaterial Dancing Elephant vs.‘God’

• Allan Tacca, Uganda’s Sam Harris?

JULY 2011:

• Freethinkers’ Night: July 2011 – GENDER ROLES

JUNE 2011:

• Freethinkers’ Night: June 2011 – HIV/AIDS in Uganda – New Challenges

• Macro-evolution Vs. Micro-evolution?

• On Backsliding Christians and their Yawning Lovers

• Freethought Kampala in Kampala Dispatch Magazine

MAY 2011:

• Freethinkers’ Night: May 2011 – MOVIE: “Religulous”

APRIL 2011:

• Freethinkers’ Night: April 2011 – The French Burqa Ban

• A Rational Approach to the Primary School ‘Demon’ Crisis

• More Insight Into the Weirdness At Kitebi School

• Bio Disc Finger-Lift Demo… DEBUNKED

• WOO TAKEDOWN #03 – ‘Demonic Attacks’ in Ugandan Primary Schools

• Florida Evans vs. An Atheist (on the 1970s “Good Times” TV show)

• Mystery Herbal Concoction from Loliondo – Another Look

MARCH 2011:

• From the Blogosphere – On Petitionary Prayer

• Christian Apologist Calls Into Atheist Show

• Freethinkers’ Night: March 2011 – How Viable is Alternative Medicine?

• Jesus Christ – Prophecy Fulfilled? (Part 1 – The Isaiah Prophecy)

• Jesus Christ vs. Sathya Sai Baba

• Examining the Extra-Biblical Evidence for Jesus

• Great Article by Hassan Higenyi in the Sunday Monitor on Witchcraft…

FEBRUARY 2011:

• Freethinkers’ Night: February 2011 – MOVIE: “KURU: The Science and the Sorcery”

JANUARY 2011:

• One Year of the Freethought Kampala Blog

• ‘Juju Juice’ to go to Nairobi for Testing

• David Kato – Ugandan LGBT Activist – Killed

• Religion and Control of the Masses

• Atheism and the Totalitarian Communist Regimes of the 20th Century

• Freethinkers’ Night: January 2011 – One Year Anniversary

• Why I Am An Atheist

• End of the World? May 21st Fever Hits Kampala

• A ‘Debate’ With a Homophobic Ugandan

DECEMBER 2010:

• From the Blogosphere – On the Anti-Homosexuality Pastors

• From the Blogosphere – On Criticising Religion

• Freethinkers’ Night: December 2010 – Do Schools Destroy Creativity?

NOVEMBER 2010:

• Christopher Hitchens at his Best

• DEBATE – Tony Blair (Catholic) VS. Christopher Hitchens (Atheist)

• This Season, Celebrate Reason

• Kenya’s Prime Minister Calls for the Arrest of Gays

• Queen Elizabeth II tells Clergy: “People of Faith Do Not Have Monopoly On Virtue”

• If You Think A Country’s Laws Should Be Based On Religious Doctrine…

• New Vision ‘Special Report’ – People Resort to Witch-Doctors to Catch Robbers

• WOO TAKEDOWN # 002 – Ojwang Strikes Again

• Freethinkers’ Night: November 2010 – Which Religion is the ‘True’ Religion? A Dialogue with Believers

• Stigmata: The Most Pious of Frauds – Response to Joseph Musisi Mwanje

• Talking to the Local Media about Reporting on Witchcraft

• Thank you, Ophelia Benson

OCTOBER 2010:

• Freethought Kampala in TIME Magazine

• School Closes over alleged attacks by “Evil Spirits”

• Freethinkers’ Night: October 2010 – Witchcraft & the Ugandan Media

• WOO TAKEDOWN # 001 – The Banda Witchcraft Saga

• New Series – WOO TAKEDOWN

• Thank you, PZ Myers

• An Oldie but Goodie – a response to Nsaba Buturo

SEPTEMBER 2010:

• From the Blogosphere – On “Scientism”

• “SCIENTISM” – the new Straw Man

• Freethinkers’ Night: September 2010 – HAPPINESS

• Anti-Gay Pastors and their HYPOCRISY

• ‘God’ the Protector?

• Pope Benedict XVI Associates Atheism With Nazism

• Asleep!

• Why Do You Believe in Electrons…

• Modern Physics, Stephen Hawking, and ‘God’

• Charismatic Christianity in Uganda (Part 1 – Introduction)

• Why Won’t ‘God’ Heal Amputees?

• Does Intercessory Prayer Work?

• Pondering the Afterlife (Part 5 – What? Non-Believers Will Also Go To Heaven?)

• From the Blogoshpere – On Scientists Who Are Religious

• From the Blogosphere – Introduction

• Religion vs. Science

• The Moral Argument for the Existence of ‘God’

AUGUST 2010:

• Freethinkers’ Night: August 2010 – MOVIE: “Judgement Day – Intelligent Design on Trial”

• Black Freethought During the Early Civil Rights Movement

• Greatest African American Freethinkers

• Curses, Religion & Article 7 of the Uganda Constitution

• Only 14.6% of Professional Philosophers Believe in ‘God’

• Christianity and the Destruction of Human Dignity

• My Rebuttal to Rev. Fr. Hillary Munyaneza Published in The Monitor

• Why I Discarded Religion

• TERRORISM: Blame It On Religion – The Unquestionable Cause!

• ‘God’

• Where Faith Clashes With Reason – Response to Rev. Fr. Hillary Munyaneza

• Sheer Madness…

• Religious Education vs. Religious Indoctrination in Uganda

JULY 2010:

• Famous Non-Believers – Julia Gillard

• Freethought Kampala in the Media

• Freethinkers’ Night: July 2010 – “Religious Fundamentalism & Terrorism”

JUNE 2010:

• You’re Not Alone

• Review of June 2010 Freethinkers’ Night

• Freethinkers’ Night: JUNE 2010 – ‘Is There Life After Death?’

MAY 2010:

• SERIES: The Resurrection of Jesus

• Freethinkers’ Night: MAY 2010 – ‘Free Speech’

• Famous Non-Believers – Nick Clegg

• Quote of the Day # 008

• Miracles..

• Ugandan Pastor Blessing People’s Passports for Visas

• Does ‘God’ Heal?

• Pondering the ‘Afterlife’

• Mother’s Day, Butcher Birds and ‘Creation’

• Onen Needs To Experience Jesus ?

• Horrific Murder of Albinos Persists in East Africa

• Another Prominent Holier-Than-Thou Anti-Gay Crusader Busted

• Why, God?

• Bye Bye Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill?

• Famous Non-Believers – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• Imaginary Solutions to Imaginary Problems

• Pondering The ‘Afterlife’ (Part 4 – ‘Hell’ in Islam)

• Jesus Is Now In My Pocket

• Islam & Freedom Of Expression?

• Pondering The ‘Afterlife’ (Part 3 – ‘Hell’ and Various Christian Interpretations Of It)

• Why Africans are Religious – By Leo Igwe

• My Article In The Daily Monitor Newspaper

APRIL 2010:

• Bible Contradictions

• Freethinkers’ Night – A Reminder!!

• Hilarious Interview on a Christian TV Show

• Critical Thinking – A Brilliant Video by Qualia Soup

• Rationality And Critical Thinking In View Of Belief And Dogma

• When Broke, Fleece The Flock

• A Great Lesson In Critical Thinking

• Famous Non-Believers – Carl Sagan

• Famous Non-Believers – Stephen Hawking

• No More Music? Oh, Somalia!

• What?? Throwing Shoes At People Is OK?

• Freethinkers’ Night: APRIL 2010 – ‘Is Religion Necessary for Morality’?

• It’s OK to Say.. “I Don’t Know”

• Wow! 1,056 Views For A Single Post!

• ‘Gods’, Wife Beaters and Abusers In General

• Why Would Homosexuals Still Want To Be Christians?

• Pascal’s Wager, Again

• Religious Experiences and Psychosis

• Kasubi Tombs – To Pray Or Not to Pray?

• Finally.. Joyce Meyer Speaks Out Against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill

• Atheist vs. Christian!

• Famous Non-Believers – James Cameron

• Quote of the Day # 007

• When Gods Have To Study

• Pondering the ‘Afterlife’ (Part 2 – Fear of Hell and Pascal’s Wager)

• Are Prayers Really Keeping You Alive?

• Pondering the ‘Afterlife’ (Part 1 – The Emptiness of Eternal Bliss)

• Famous Non-Believers – Brad Pitt

• Famous Non-Believers – Angelina Jolie

• Furless Mice and A Two-Legged Cow – If Not… My Penis!

• Sign The Online Petition to Save Ali Hussain Sibat’s Life

• Growing Religious Skepticism in Uganda

• Why I Fail To See The Point of Celebrating Easter

• Religious Logic!!!

• March Freethinkers’ Night – Another Success!

• Quote of the Day # 006

• Ali Hussain Sibat Faces Death for ‘Sorcery’

MARCH 2010:

• Witchcraft in Nigeria Related To Evangelical Christianity?

• Freethinkers’ Night – March 25th 2010!! Witchcraft!!

• Famous Non-Believers – Bill Gates

• Freethought Kampala on Facebook

• A Classic Response to the Tirade of a Homophobe

• Does ‘God’ Heal? (Part 3 – The Lazarus Syndrome)

• Can Science Be Trusted?

• Believers’ Prayers Fail to Bring 2 Dead Pastors Back To Life

• Does ‘God’ Heal? (Part 2 – Why Claims of Miracle Healing Aren’t Believable)

• Famous Non-Believers – Richard Branson

• Famous Non-Believers – Bruce Lee

• Really? A Fatwa Issued Against…Terrorists?

• Quote of the Day # 005

• Does Christianity Reinforce the Belief that Witchcraft Works?

• How To Eradicate Witchcraft In Uganda

• Quote of the Day # 004

• Freethinkers’ Night Was A Blast

• How Many Atheists Are There In The World?

FEBRUARY 2010:

• Freethinkers’ Night

• Ugandan Religious Leaders Upset With Pastor Ssempa’s Gay Porn Slide Show

• Atheism is Everywhere?

• Quote of the Day # 003

• Pastor Ssempa Shows Gay Porn in Church

• The Christian Obsession with Satan and Demons

• Quote of the Day # 002

• How Does an Atheist Account for Feelings of Awe?

• Your Religion vs. Other Religions

• Is Everyone Worshipping the Same ‘God’ ?

• Quote of the Day # 001

• What? You Mean Atheists are Good People?

• Why I am No Longer a Christian

• Miracle Healing Church closed for discouraging its sick from going to hospital

• James’ Journey – Part 1 – Transition from Christianity to Atheism

• The Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the Silence of the Superstars

• ‘God’ and Passing Exams

• Does ‘God’ Heal? (Part 1)

• No foodoo if you do voodoo?

• The Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the Triumph of Pseudoscience

• So if ‘God’ doesn’t exist, where did the Universe come from? (Part 1)

JANUARY 2010:

• The Origin of ‘God’ and ‘Religion’