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U.S. Muslim activists launched a campaign on Wednesday against a series of educational books that they say promote anti-Islamic sentiment among American school children. “The World of Islam,” a 10-book series, encourages young reader...
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Reuters Video Report — DNA confirms that a secretive African tribe are direct descendants of Jews who fled the Holy Land 2,500 years ago, and one their religious artifacts might be linked to the lost Ark of the Covenant.
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The Texas Attorney General's Office says a member of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been convicted of sexual assault of an alleged underage bride. Merril Leroy Jessop faces up to life in prison....
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Indian Muslim women reacted positively to a bill passed by the upper house of parliament last week that would reserve one-third of seats in the directly elected lower house of parliament and the state assemblies for women. There are 59 women lawma...
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NCSE's archives house a unique trove of material on the creationism/evolution controversy, and we regard it as part of our mission to preserve it for posterity — as well as for occasions such as Kitzmiller v. Dover, where NCSE's archives helped to ...
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The comment that has stirred up the most condemnation from the press is Richard Dawkins' mention of "Pope…Nazi," which everyone assumes was about the current Pope. Wrong. Everyone knows the current Pope is most properly addressed as "Pope Palp...
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Catholic pilgrims in Medjugorje, 25 June 2009/Damir Sagolj
The Vatican has opened an investigation into reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the small town of Medjugorje in southern Bosnia which have drawn more than 30 million pilgrims and d...
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Emancipated from the rigor of science, we are free to propose any fanciful idea and exercise our imaginations to the fullest — all that matters is that you have a cool story with T-rexes biting the heads off people.
Get right on this one, Di...
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The undying thread needs a rejuvenation. Here's a pornographic video to get you excited.
As I mentioned, I'm away from my wife during our 30th anniversary, but she doesn't have to worry — after seeing Australian courtship rituals, I cannot b...
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Greek Orthodox priests in Athens 31 Jan 2008/Yiorgos Karahalis
By Renee Maltezou
ATHENS – A senior cleric has accused Greece’s socialist government of being hostile to the Orthodox Church for imposing taxes on it as part of a drive to t...
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You might recall that I’ve been promoting this guy’s work for a little while. I think it’s one of the best amateur video series to come around in a long time, and I think it’s the perfect kind of thing to send to a friend who...
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Hi everyone, this is Ron Gold.
Latino-Americans have traditionally been dependable Catholics, though they are slowly but surely becoming more religiously diverse, as seen below:
Notice the number who report no religion has almost doubled from 1990 ...
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That prior clarification was not intended to exculpate the current pope: Hitchens rips into the guilty monster occupying the Vatican. Good stuff. Read the comments on this post......
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A CATHOLIC adoption society has won a High Court battle over laws forcing it to consider gay couples as parents, according to a BBC report today.
Leeds-based Catholic Care had warned it would be forced to give up its work finding homes for ...
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Kent Hovind's infamous alma mater has put together a collection of responses because they are "under attack!" Only they aren't—they're being laughed at. And whoa, these pages are even more hilarious. (Warning: all of the links below go to pages...
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Can we reconcile science and religion?
The host of American Public Media’s Speaking of Faith, Krista Tippett, believes we can. She calls them both “pursuits of cohesive knowledge and underlying truths” and does not believe they are necessa...
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Amidst the heady swirl of controversy surrounding the Catholic Church (with more and more evidence of priestly misconduct and of their highly organized protection of these offenders), a UK judge has allowed a Catholic adoption agency to openly discri...
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Dayton is Oslo sent me this interesting email (I cut out the sycophantic niceties for the sake of brevity)
I wanted to inquire about your opinions regarding the issue of respect in relation to other peoples’ religious or spiritual beliefs. I b...
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I recently overheard a very disturbing conversation. One woman was very upset because her friend was on his deathbed due to cancer. She was telling her friend about it and her friend asked her if the dying friend “knew the Lord.”
I was just overh...
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by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Dear Bleaders,
We’re here on this blog together because we don’t believe in Dog, right? Strike that, reverse it, reinstate.
Look. I call my way of seeing things Poetic Atheism. I don’t believe in anything supernat...
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