1. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...es in terms of everlasting rewards and punishments. Religion is the one endeavor in which us-them thinking achieves a transcendent significance. If a person really believes that calling God by the rig...

2. Farmer makes miracles
(Religion/General)

To draw more than 60 000 men to a non-sporting, Christian event is not just an achievement, it could be deemed a miracle. From all parts of South Africa and various corners of the globe, they came t

3. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

...co-founder of the punk band Bad Religion, who is also a lecturer on life sciences at UCLA, with a lifetime achievement award in humanism. I asked Epstein whether atheists need a church. "I'm ...

4. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda
(Religion/General)

...s. But this interpretation gets it historically backwards, as PZ Myers has pointed out. Darwin's great achievement was to look at the familiar practice of domestic livestock breeding by artificial...

5. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

...n Stephen Fry, Sir Elton John or Peter Mandelson? Partly because of the status he has within his industry, achieved by doing the impossible: reviving the Doctor – turning a dusty old joke into a...

6. They prayed to cast Satan from my body
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... The executive manager of programs with Mercy Ministries, Judy Watson, is proud of the organisation's achievements, and rejects the claim that there are no staff qualified in psychiatry, psycholo...

7. Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
(Religion/General)

...st be obeyed, to one designed to serve the needs of people in a modern secular democracy. He says that to achieve it, the state is fashioning a new Islam. "This is kind of akin to the Christian...

8. US military accused of harboring fundamentalism
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...people to believe what we believe," Fister told AFP. OCF's aim, as stated on its website, is to achieve "a spiritually transformed military, with ambassadors for Christ in uniform, emp...

9. Good people doing evil things
(Religion/General)

...ssessed to put down their machetes helped? Of course not. Even the great Archbishop Desmond Tutu failed to achieve anything. Dawkins asks of just such initiatives that involve the clergy: "But ...

10. Down’s syndrome bombers kill 91
(Religion/General)

...damaged cars,” Rae Mushin, 21, the owner of a mobile phone shop, said. “I thought that we had achieved real security in Baghdad, but it turned out that we were wrong.” Women suicid...

11. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...dermined by pedestrian and pedantic tick lists, and by inflexible, unhelpful processes, it can tarnish the achievements of even the most worthy winners. "It's time for a rethink, and for Bec...

12. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...analysis of 40 published experiments, the authors concluded: “the replication rates and effect sizes achieved by one particular experimental method, the ganzfeld procedure, are now sufficient to...

13. Debunking 'The Secret'
(Paranormal/The Secret / What the Bleep)

... you'll hate this article. The Secret claims to reveal an age-old, and tried and true secret of how to achieve health, wealth, love, happiness, and anything and everything else you might want. Th...