1. "Possessed" girl barred from school
(Religion/General)

...school." But the school refused. This depressed Rose's daughter, who said she wanted to "commit suicide and felt like a monster and criminal". The child wrote a letter: "...

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

...: “My thinking is based on a belief in the scientific process, and the necessity for evidence. I am committed to science and believe it to be the best way to understand the world. ... I know of ...

3. Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son
(Religion/Enforced religion)

..., Municipal Judge Patrick Dugan held them for trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy to commit involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.   "When yo...

4. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

...-by-side with the schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He then explains why his schedule is a safer choice for p...

5. Next week, blasphemy gets its own holiday
(Religion/Atheism)

...—deliberately showing contempt or irreverence for something considered sacred—as a sin “committed directly against God ... more grave than murder.” In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus...

6. "Atheist bus" more like a bandwagon on highway to hell
(Religion/Atheism)

...k might suppose that atheists are simply searchingly honest persons who, doubting the tenets of faith and committed to reason and logic, conclude that they just cannot commit to faith. There may be s...

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

... their communities and ensure they "voted correctly because you care and you have compassion and are committed to bettering the lives of god's people". An Eastern Cape representative sai...

8. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

... or bad ones, we have lost our connection to the world and to one another. Atheism is nothing more than a commitment to the most basic standard of intellectual honesty: One’s convictions should ...

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

... she’s promoted quack remedies. We believe that the ANC and the President have to demonstrate their commitment to the rule of law and immediately relieve the minister of her duties.” Earli...

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

...usly told an interviewer from Vanity Fair: "We don't do God." The former prime minister, a committed Anglican since his days as a student at Oxford in the 1970s who converted to Catholi...

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

...slims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has,...

12. Farmer makes miracles
(Religion/General)

...re always based on telling men they must get their act together." McMurray said the emphasis was on committing and recommitting, on going back home and loving the people around you. The focus wa...

13. Get out of here, atheists!
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, "What you have to spew and spread is extremely dan...

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

...aid the relative, who did not want to be identified. "I was extremely fearful that she was likely to commit suicide. It was an extreme shock that this ministry we all had decided was the real dea...

15. Getting the public to pay attention to good science
(Science/General)

...because it had numbers attached to it. David Goldston, the former staff director for Congress' House Committee on Science, focused on the challenges of communicating scientific information to law...

16. Ultra-Orthodox press digitally erases women from images
(Religion/General)

...reatest extent possible, prefers as a general rule to refrain from carrying images of females. Spiritual committees, comprised of rabbis who regularly monitor haredi sites and newspapers, generally d...

17. Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules'
(Religion/General)

...to wear gowns. Similar concerns have been raised at Leicester University. Minutes from a medical school committee said that "a number of Muslim females had difficulty in complying with the proc...

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

...ts plans to repeal the blasphemy laws before introducing the changes when the Criminal Justice Bill is in committee stage in a few weeks. “It is as if the prolonged and widespread debate on the...

19. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...quo; Pascal called civil war the worst of all evils and openly admitted that no evil is greater than that committed under the guise of religion. If he were living today, I am sure his response to Harr...

20. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...t;Of course we are all very worried about my brother. What has happened to him is very unjust. He has not committed blasphemy and he was not even allowed to have a legal defence. and what took place w...

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

...ame to the dogmas of religious faith. Isn't atheism just as dogmatic and dangerous? At this point, a committed theist might point to the history of 20th century Communism and say that there is so...

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

... Her testimony led to the discovery of Van Rooyen and his accomplice, Joey Haarhoff, who are said to have committed suicide during a police chase, although there has been speculation they were mistake...

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

... Her testimony led to the discovery of Van Rooyen and his accomplice, Joey Haarhoff, who are said to have committed suicide during a police chase, although there has been speculation they were mistake...

24. Death Sentence for Afghan Student
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ts’ organizations. Mr. Kambakhsh’s brother, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, denied that his sibling had committed blasphemy, and said that his brother was not given enough time to prepare his defens...

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

...ld that mean that secondary schools could not teach Animal Farm because it features pigs? Her company is committed to an ethical approach to business and its products promote a message of mutual resp...

26. Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...decided to create even more of them. In a private deal with a number of religious leaders, Ministers have committed themselves to remove "unnecessary barriers to the creation of new faith schools...

27. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...ut I don’t care if you murder someone.” The other hallmark is that people feel that those who commit immoral acts deserve to be punished. Not only is it allowable to inflict pain on a pers...

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

...day. The Institute for Creation Research, which received preliminary approval last month from an advisory committee to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, asked the commission not to consid...

29. Worshiping at the Temple of Diana
(Religion/General)

...ran, have still not signed the treaty. But there was often a disturbing incongruity between Diana’s commitment to the poor and sick and her extravagant lifestyle. Diana’s flaws were part o...

30. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

...re skeptics, but if there is a legitimate link between a lack of supernatural beliefs and a propensity to commit atrocities it is not to be found in the actions of 20th century dictators. Of the worst...