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About Author: Peter Brietbart

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Posts by Peter Brietbart

  • Jerusalem is an overwhelming city. In the tradition of absurdist thought, nothing is truly meaningful, and any meaning has to be somewhat arbitrarily imposed onto the world. Jerusalem poses a...18February 5, 2011

    Faith Wars: How holiness drives the Israeli-Arab conflict

  • THIS past week we’ve seen the majority of Facebook’s userbase swap their profile pictures for images of cartoons from their childhood. This was part of a well-intentioned, but ultimately superficial...50December 7, 2010

    The Original Slacktivism

  • TONIGHT UK viewers can enjoy a screening of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ – a movie dubbed ‘The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre’ by one US critic. It’s a film...31July 21, 2010

    Letter from a Young Contrarian

  • A couple from the US state of Georgia was recently arrested for tattooing six of their seven children with crosses. The mother bemusedly commented: I’m their mother. Shouldn’t I be...59January 21, 2010

    Why circumcision should be abhorred

  • PETER BRIETBART Interviews Christopher Hitchens for <em>The Freethinker</em> at the Intelligence Squared debate in London, October 2009.67October 20, 2009

    Catholic Church humiliated by Fry and Hitchens in historic London debate

  • Too many times I have informed someone that I am an atheist, only to have them reply, “Oh, but how could you know that God doesn’t exist? You’re taking a...129September 25, 2009

    Atheist, Gnostic, Theist, Agnostic

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