1. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

...nd Dr. Hauschka) is the guiding force within these classrooms, and yet in the schools the word is barely heard, let alone explained. Schools are cagey and evasive at the mere mention of the word, and ...

2. Shofar Christian cult mobilizes in the Western Cape
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

Over the last couple of weeks I have heard more and more disturbing information about this strange Christian sect called Shofar . The straw that broke that proverbial camel's back was when a fello

3. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...ient and compassionate God. But what was God doing while a hurricane laid waste to their city? Surely he heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of t...

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

...st Mr. Carroll considers to be a great shame of the church. In the most moving segment Ms. Richardson is heard reading a letter written in 1933 to Pope Pius XI by Edith Stein urging him to speak out a...

5. Rapture site sends unbelievers their last chance
(Religion/General)

...l its subscribers. "The people on my team are Christians who expect to be raptured," said Mark Heard, the site's creator. "They must continually log in to the system. The team is sp...

6. Car dealership advert tells atheists to 'shut up'
(Religion/General)

...t as "quite possibly the most offensive advertisement for an automobile dealership that I have ever heard". "I really don't care about what his [the owner of the dealership's]...

7. Sharon Stone blames China's earthquake on karma
(Religion/General)

...d carpet interview in Cannes last week, a video of which has just surfaced on YouTube. Asked if she had heard about the situation in China, Stone replied: "Of course. You know, it was very inter...

8. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear
(Religion/General)

...he country's leading experts on the scientist, John Brooke of Oxford University, admitted he had not heard of it. Einstein is best known for his theories of relativity and for the famous E=mc2 e...

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

...have been brought to justice. And these are British Muslims. Occasionally, however, a lone voice can be heard acknowledging the obvious. Hassan Butt wrote in the Guardian: When I was still a member ...

10. Expelled!
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... around on the floor right now, if I weren't so dang dignified. You see … well, have you ever heard of a sabot? It's a kind of sleeve or lightweight carrier used to surround a piece of ...

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

...ush was not consumed. It should have been burned in the time he thought had passed. And in that time, he heard God speaking to him." "But not everyone who uses a plant like this brings th...

12. Is Europe a Country?
(Science/General)

... Hungary. "Hungry?" she said, eyes widening in disbelief. "That's a country? I've heard of Turkey. But Hungry? I've never heard of it."  Click through for the vid...

13. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

... Hungary. "Hungry?" she said, eyes widening in disbelief. "That's a country? I've heard of Turkey. But Hungry? I've never heard of it." Such, uh, lack of global aware...

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

... the bird cages were and then this woman walked into the middle of the crowd. Then I saw a big flame and heard a loud bang. I saw bodies flying through the air. Most of the dead were young.” Al...

15. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...and violence clear to any fair observer. Yet these books read as if they came from authors who had never heard of the Reign of Terror or Robespierre. It is this blinkered ahistorical myopia that makes...

16. Parents of tortured children fled probe in Europe
(Religion/General)

...o 10 and seven to eight at the time of the abuse, were beaten and tied up by their father, the court had heard. He cut their mouths with a scalpel, pressed the older boy's tongue with pincers, be...

17. Banned From Church
(Religion/General)

...nd Baptists. Today, excommunication rarely occurs in the U.S. Catholic Church, and shunning is largely unheard of among mainline Protestants. Little Consensus Among churches that practice discipline...

18. Violence fear over Islam film
(Religion/General)

...dam, echoed Hirsi Ali's words and called for a debate 'so that the moderates can make themselves heard'. During a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last week, Ahmad Badr al-D...

19. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...es the rags to clean her bathroom. A family’s dog is killed by a car in front of their house. They heard that dog meat was delicious, so they cut up the dog’s body and cook it and eat it f...

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

...ere over, the tapes of what N’kisi had said were played for three judges, who wrote down what they heard; unless N’kisi distinctly said the right word, as transcribed by all three judges, ...

21. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

.... But what of der Führer himself? For reasons that should be obvious, atheists are seldom, if ever, heard invoking God’s name in their public statements. Yet one would be hard pressed to fi...

22. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...ternative ways of understanding the universe. Probably nothing that I say will be anything you have not heard elsewhere. My goals here are simply to describe what I think a typical scientist has in m...

23. God spoke to me
(Religion/General)

...o;m a little shaky on it and I didn’t want to say anything about it publicly. I’m not sure I heard from the Lord. And if I did, I hope I heard wrong. Sean Hannity then followed-up and aske...