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Viewpoints: Why is faith falling in the US?
- - BBC News - 22 August 2012 Comments
A new poll suggests that atheism is on the rise in the US, while those who consider themselves religious has dropped. What's the cause? Two writers debate. Thousands attended an atheism rally in...
Blasphemy Laws Exposed: The Consequences of Criminalizing “Defamation of Religions”
- - human rights first - 20 August 2012 Comments
FOR OVER A DECADE, efforts have been made in several venues at the United Nations to promote the concept that States have an obligation to adopt and enforce laws against the “defamation of...
Ed Kilgore - Political Animal - 20 August 2012 Comments
Barton’s Fall From Grace Political Animal Ed Kilgore Back in June I wrote about a new book by two conservative evangelical writers who took great issue with the take on Thomas Jefferson’s...
Pussy Riot's closing statement
Cory Doctorow - BoingBoing - 18 August 2012 Comments
Argument in the show-trial of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot -- who gave an unlicensed anti-Putin performance in a cathedral and now face harsh, Stalinist justice for daring to point out the...
Refuting Richard: Dawkins Doesn’t “Get” God
Graham Veale - Saints & Sceptics? - 16 August 2012 Comments
Richard Dawkins seems to concede that God could make sense of the universe (see his interview with Alister McGrath ). However, he does not believe that theism is a good explanation because “God is...
Witchcraft-based child abuse: Action plan launched
- - BBC News - 15 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Ken Thomson and Tony Andrews for submitting the link The government has launched an action plan to tackle child abuse linked to witchcraft or religion in England. ...
Why I won't take part in debate with fundamentalists
Richard Dawkins - for the Press and Journal - 14 August 2012 Comments
I was invited several months ago to speak at the Faclan Book Festival in Stornoway and I was delighted to accept, as I have a great affection for the Highlands and Islands but have never visited...
Parents who believe in miracles 'torturing' dying children, doctors warn
John Bingham - The Telegraph - 14 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Linda Ward Selbie for the link Parents who trust in divine intervention, even after doctors say there is no hope of survival, are putting their children through aggressive but...
Atheist group targets presidential candidates' faith with billboards
Dan Merica - CNN - 13 August 2012 Comments
A prominent atheist group is using next month's Democratic National Convention to take aim at the presidential candidates' religion, putting up billboards targeting Mormonism and Christianity in...
Thinking style and belief in God
Art Markman - Psychology Today - 13 August 2012 Comments
There is no doubt that the human mind is prepared to believe in the divine. All over the world, cultures have created belief in one or many gods. These beliefs are common in societies regardless...
Neil Ormerod - Religion and Ethics - 13 August 2012 Comments
In the preface to his best-selling book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins explains the fundamental reason for writing the book: "If this book works as I intend, the religious readers who open it...
Don Lacey - Tucson Citizen - 13 August 2012 Comments
Jim Wilson, for this argument, assumes there is a Christian God and a hell. He then examines the character of those Christians that seem to take pleasure in telling their friends that they’re going...
Scott Atran - Foreign Policy - 09 August 2012 Comments
What we don't understand about religion just might kill us. The era of world struggle between the great secular ideological -isms that began with the French Revolution and lasted through the...
Ireland second only to Vietnam in loss of religious sentiment
Patsy McGarry - Irish Times - 08 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Tyler Durden for the link In a survey of more than 50 countries, Ireland has experienced the second-greatest drop in recent years in the percentage of the population that claims...
Jewel Topsfield - The Age - 07 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Mike Sloan for the link The group representing parents in Victorian state schools has joined teachers in calling for controversial religious instruction classes to be scrapped...
Kenya Bishops slam Melinda Gates’ contraception plan for Africa
Peter Baklinski - LifeSiteNews - 04 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Jonathan Dore for the link The Catholic Bishops of Kenya have collectively slammed a pro-contraception article that appeared in the country’s Africa Review earlier this month as...
$5 Million Grant Awarded by Private Foundation to Study Immortality
Bettye Miller - UCR Today - 04 August 2012 Comments
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded philosopher John Martin Fischer $5 million to study issues related to immortality. For millennia, humans have pondered their mortality and whether death...
The tragedy at the heart of New Atheism
Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith - CatholicHerald.co.uk - 03 August 2012 Comments
Belief in an ordered universe is hard to reconcile with a tragic view of life Richard Dawkins poses on a London bus displaying an atheist advertisement (PA) I remember sitting up and taking...
Religion’s fair game if it motivates politics
Lawrence Martin - The Globe and Mail - 01 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Linda Ward Selbie for the link Much has been made of the government’s muzzling of the science community, its low regard for statistics, its hard line against environmentalists. ...
Mississippi church refuses to marry black couple
AP - CBC News - 01 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Roedy for the link Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson in their home in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. (WLBT TV/Associated Press) A Mississippi couple says the church where they...
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