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

...n Christians are moderate, but an influx of Pentecostals over the past 50 years has led some churches to be dominated by extremist views. Five years ago, the Nigerian government passed a Child Rights ...

2. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...o their continued presence among the faithful. While the hatred of Jews in Germany expressed itself in a predominately secular way, the religious demonization of the Jews of Europe continued. (The Vat...

3. Fossil reveals oldest live birth
(Science/General)

...ly diverse group and are thought to be the most primitive known vertebrates with jaws. These armoured fish dominated seas, rivers and lakes throughout the Devonian Period (420-360 million years ago)....

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

...or many many centuries, positively encouraged by most Christian churches, including especially the two that dominate Germany. The Roman Catholic Church has notoriously persecuted Jews as "Christ-...

5. Pope Benedict to test secular ground at UN
(Religion/General)

...ce and development, two UN pillars, as well as human rights. The UN is an inter-governmental organization, dominated mostly by East-West politics during the height of the Cold War period. It has sinc...

6. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...uarantee that the cynicism of power—whatever beguiling ideological mask it adopts—will cease to dominate the world. Ironically, Benedict is far more respectful of certain varieties of unbe...

7. Prince Charles's letter in support of Islamic 'fundamentalism'
(Religion/General)

...Dr Mahathir's Selected Letters to World Leaders. "We now live in a Press State where everything is dominated by the lowest common denominator and by the most ludicrous of 'sound bites'...

8. Designer microbes to save us all
(Good news/All)

...;   Venter says today's body of genetic knowledge is growing so fast that biology likely will dominate 21st-century science and technology, just as discoveries in physics revolutionized ...

9. in the beginning
(User blogs/Default Category)

...e obvious, I was excited about the possibilities in the world. But I underestimated the weight of a society dominated by beliefs different from my own. I have held my tongue in silent anguish, for the...