1. Belief, God Genes, and the Findings of Science
(Religion/Atheism)

...lies it to a process of human simulation and cultural transfer: biological genes are extended to what he calls memes. A meme is a unit of cultural transfer, or unit of simulation. Genes are replicated...

2. Public schools flout national laws on religious instruction
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...iale Skool in East London complained to me as director of Sceptic South Africa that regular “altar calls” are held every Friday morning. It is virtually compulsory for children to attend t...

3. Religion is a tender subject
(User blogs/Default Category)

...;atheist” really appropriate in a room where theism is not discussed?  How is it that someone calls himself an “atheist” if he is not a cynical person who has a subconscious, ar...

4. SA a country of God - Zuma
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...d ANC president Jacob Zuma in Kempton Park on Thursday. The preamble of the constitution "calls upon God to help us" said Zuma at the National Presidential Religious Leaders confer...

5. "Child-witches" of Nigeria seek refuge
(Religion/General)

...ation of air, land and sea. In the documentary, the charity worker visits one of the pastors, a man who calls himself "the Bishop" and who claims to be able to drive evil spirits out of &qu...

6. Movie : Constantine's Sword
(Religion/General)

...f the Vietnam War. When Mr. Carroll was a boy, his family had a private audience with the pope, and he recalls his feelings of awe. Years later he became an ardent opponent of the Vietnam War. His est...

7. Quackery quashed, but Rath’s legacy lives
(Medicine/General)

...s not yet publicly reacted to Judge Zondi’s judgment. The Dr Rath Health Foundation was not taking calls on Friday. But the setback could hardly have come as a surprise. Rath must be used to suc...

8. Blair does God in interview to launch inter-faith foundation
(Religion/General)

...ants to devote the rest of his life to promoting understanding between the world's religions as he recalls how his Christian faith gave him the strength as prime minister to take tough decisions. ...

9. Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
(Religion/General)

...ientology is well known to my organisation, and has been of great concern to me for 22 years. I get many calls from families with loved ones involved and ex-members who are in need of one form of help...

10. Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour
(Religion/General)

...hat the introduction of aspects of sharia into British law was unavoidable, the report is likely to fuel calls for the disestablishment of the Church of England. Martin Salter, the Labour MP for Rea...

11. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...rther security measures, has since reinstated it on its site as well). Of course, there were immediate calls for a boycott of Dutch products throughout the Muslim world. In response, Dutch corporati...

12. Religion a figment of human imagination
(Religion/General)

...cial interaction unavailable to any other creatures on the planet. Uniquely, humans could use what Bloch calls the "transcendental social" to unify with groups, such as nations and clans, or...

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

...that." Even Richard Dawkins is not one to reject certain memes based on their churchly pedigree. He calls himself a "cultural Christian," admitting that he likes to sing Christmas carol...

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

... sounds too prosaic, and not enough to justify the hyperbole of a writer who saw part of the episode and calls it "one of the single most audacious moments in Doctor Who's 45-year-history... ...

15. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday
(Religion/General)

...t for the end of the world at Mr Kuznetsov's wooden cottage in Nikolskoye. Mr Kuznetsov's sect calls itself the True Orthodox Church, a splinter group whose members reject processed food and...

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

...rote to them over a period of time, just trying to get answers. They were very evasive; they avoided her calls. Eventually she got some paperwork, some case notes, from them." Mercy Ministries ...

17. New Atheists Are Not Great
(Religion/General)

...counters with believing dolts—hate-mail writers, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the like. Hitchens recalls murderous fanatics in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and the Levant, and his blood-chilling encount...

18. Hebrew University researcher: Moses was tripping at Mount Sinai
(Religion/General)

...y Shanon, professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reads the verse, he recalls a powerful hallucinatory experience he had when he visited the Amazon and drank a potion ...

19. Hatred and Ignorance on the Web
(Religion/General)

...ian sense) that Islam is the ONE, is THE religion. Okay, so I want to tell this to that silly girl who calls Islam “arb”. Do not mistake me: I view religion as a virus that must be eradi...

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

...executions were carried out than anywhere else in the country? There has been a change in what Dawkins calls the "moral zeitgeist" or spirit of the time. As we know, the Gospels were writt...

21. MySpace deletes hacked Web site for atheists and agnostics
(Newsflashes/Newsflash)

...e in America that we are not welcome on MySpace," Pesta said. A MySpace spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment. Pesta started the group in 2004 as a social networking site "speci...

22. Archbishop of Canterbury calls for new law to punish 'thoughtless or cruel' words
(Religion/Enforced religion)

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has called for new laws to protect religious sensibilities that would punish “thoughtless and cruel” styles of speaking. Dr Williams, who

23. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...ive?” Twilight of the Idols includes a section entitled “Morality for Physicians” that calls sick people “parasites” who have no right to life and advocates the “mo...

24. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?
(Religion/Atheism)

...hey all explicitly say they have little or no problem with deism, or Spinozian pantheism or what Dawkins calls "Einstein-ian religion". Harris, Dennett and Hitchens (and possibly Dawkins) ha...

25. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...anche's information. But Meintjies - prolific in dealing with sexual offences cases - did not return calls. Krugel says that, mostly using hair, he is able to trace missing people, or their remai...

26. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...anche's information. But Meintjies - prolific in dealing with sexual offences cases - did not return calls. Krugel says that, mostly using hair, he is able to trace missing people, or their remai...

27. Banned From Church
(Religion/General)

... her membership restored, but she says the matter should be settled in the church. Mr. Burrick no longer calls the police when Mrs. Caskey shows up for Sunday services. Since November, Mrs. Caskey ha...

28. Questions Delay Creationist Master's Degrees
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...s OK to a new program to train teachers to instruct children in creation science set off alarm bells and calls for the commission to hold off on approving the institute. At the same time, the issue is...

29. Loudspeaker plan re-ignites 'call to prayer' row
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...se to the mosque, said: "The response against this has been incredible, we have been inundated with calls and letters ranging from stiff upper lip outrage to sheer screaming fury. "The unive...

30. Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ly been expanded in some fields, it has also found new dimensions,” Ms. Ebadi’s group, which calls itself Defenders of Human Rights, said in a statement. Iranian newspapers on Thursday rep...