Archives for May 2016

LoveSingapore’s troubling Wear White message

24 May 2016 by

This statement was first published on 23 May 2016 as a note on our Facebook page. It was picked by Independent.sg and TODAY on the same day.

LoveSingapore’s Wear White message is troubling in a multi-cultural, diverse Singapore

On May 19, the LoveSingapore Christian network released a Facebook post launching the Wear White movement for 2016, calling on churches in its network to wear white. While the Wear White movement was founded two years ago by a Muslim religious teacher as a counter-movement to Pink Dot, LoveSingapore, as a Christian group, appears to be taking the lead this year. This year, the Wear White movement is scheduled on the same weekend (June 4-5) as Pink Dot, which will be held on June 4 at the Speakers’ Corner. [Read more…]

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Videos: Religion and Atheism: A Conversation (Round 2)

21 May 2016 by

The second tranche (of three) of videos where our president had a conversation with Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib from LeftWrite Center.

Round 2 starts with short responses from the speakers to audience’s questions and comments. Watch it here:

Round 2 : Answers to Round 1 Questions & Comments
Speaker : Tan Tatt Si (HSS President), Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib (Co-Founder, Leftwrite Center)

What should atheists do to help create common space in Singapore ?
Speaker : Tan Tatt Si (HSS President)

What should religions do to help create common space in Singapore ?
Speaker : Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib (Co-Founder, Leftwrite Center)

This was followed by the Round 2 QnA :

Note: More speeches will be released in the following weeks. Stay tuned!

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PinkDot : HSS T-shirts

21 May 2016 by

Please visit https://humanist.org.sg/pinkdotshirt/ to get your pink dot t-shirt. 🙂

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Yahoo: Singaporeans who believe in life without God

13 May 2016 by

Nurul Azliah from Yahoo News Singapore visited us at one of our Humanist Cafe networking events and spoke to people who has given up their religious faith. Nurul interviewed an ex-catholic who tried to find a church who could accept his homosexuality, but eventually lost his faith. She also spoke to an atheist who grew up in a religious cult in Indonesia, a social worker who believes that there is no need for God in his life to be a righteous person, and a logistics executive, who argued that people should look beyond religion to understand more about the world around them.

Read more here:

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singaporeans-who-believe-in-life-without-god-041548137.html

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