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

...etical china teapot orbiting the Sun. He writes as “a lover of truth, I am suspicious of strongly held beliefs that are unsupported by evidence: fairies, unicorns, werewolves, any of the infinit...

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

... the two attorneys representing the Schaibles argued for their innocence, Municipal Judge Patrick Dugan held them for trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy to commit involuntary man...

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

...soapbox in London’s Hyde Park, and a Blasphemy Challenge at CFI Toronto; -- a blasphemy contest held by CFI International, in conjunction with its Campaign for Free Expression, in which partic...

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

...;n geel strikkie om te dra vir die hele week - heeltemal vrywillig. Die gedagte is dat almal jou liggie helder sien skyn vir Jesus.) On the Wednesday of the week children would have taken part in hol...

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

...rit works within the skin when it wants to descend to the physical plane…but where the spirit is held back, where it takes on a demonic character and does not fully penetrate the flesh, then wh...

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

...itzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson invalidated corruption charges brought against Zuma. Nicholson held that the State's decision to prosecute Zuma was unlawful because it had failed to take ...

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

... cleansed. If the ritual fails, they know their children will have to be sent away, or killed. Many are held in churches, often on chains, and deprived of food until they "confess" to being ...

8. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...which people are systematically protected from the demand to give evidence in defense of their strongly held beliefs. And yet these beliefs often determine what they live for, what they will die for, ...

9. Novel bacterial species found trapped in Greenland's ice
(Science/General)

...ecies is a significant step in the overall endeavor to discover, cultivate and use the special features held by these organisms." This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, ...

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

...ver gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassi...

11. Religious ban upsets community
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... their names not be revealed. "It is a standing order from inkosi (Mzimela) that no functions are held on Saturdays. If you ignore this order you get fined a cow or exiled from the area. I have ...

12. Darwin's Nemesis by William Dembski
(Book reviews/Reviews)

...aced back to the publication of Johnson’s book, Darwin on trial, in 1991. In 1992 a symposium was held at Southern Methodist University at which Phil Johnson and Michael Ruse (a sympathetic oppo...

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

...ng his prediction had been wrong. Mr Kuznetsov has been declared to be suffering from schizophrenia and held in a psychiatric hospital for treatment. He was brought back to the remote village of Nikol...

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

...o the fire of rage brimming in their poor language and ignorance, you allow this group to constantly be held together. You prevent the hate group from dissolving. Referring back to the definition abov...

15. More Americans leaving religious ties of their youth
(Religion/General)

...l themselves Catholic as in the past, but that statistic masks significant turnover. The percentage has held up primarily because of the huge number of recent Latino immigrants, who are largely Cathol...

16. View from the lab: creationism
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ells the tale of the lady who insisted that the Earth sat on a giant turtle. When challenged as to what held that creature up, she replied that the cosmos was "turtles all the way down". In ...

17. Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe
(Religion/General)

...id the resurgence in exorcisms has been encouraged by the Vatican, which in 1999 formally revised and upheld the rite for the first time in almost 400 years. Although a Vatican official denied repor...

18. What would Darwin have made of the Human Genome Project?
(Science/General)

... lucky genes, not selfish genes. Among those studying genomes, the neutralist view has for many years held sway. Most of the DNA sitting between the genes was considered "junk", acquired b...

19. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...;t mean biological evolution has stopped. It has increased." The new evidence contradicts the long-held view that it takes 1,000 to 10,000 generations – or 20,000 to 200,000 years – f...

20. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...dquo; that remains inaccessible—a cry of yearning directed at world history. Adorno also firmly upheld this total rejection of images, which naturally meant the exclusion of any “image&rdq...

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

...ntenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years...

22. Krugel: 'Maddie lies here'
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

... "I am almost 90% sure Madeleine is dead. There is always the slight possibility that she could be held hostage in one of the houses in the area on my map, but I feel this is very unlikely. If he...

23. Heath Ledger Death: Baptist Group To Protest At Memorial
(Religion/General)

...nd has begun serving his eternal sentence there." The demonstrations will target memorial services held in the US, not those in Australia, according to church spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper. &q...

24. Banned From Church
(Religion/General)

...arly donated 10% of her pension, was led out by a state trooper and a county sheriff's officer. One held her purse and Bible. The other put her in handcuffs. (Listen to the 911 call) The charge wa...

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

...the crisis sparked by the publication of cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper two years ago, have held a series of crisis meetings and ordered counter-terrorist services to draw up security plan...

26. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...rgument, the violation of things that we rightfully hold dear. . . . In this age in which everything is held to be permissible so long as it is freely done . . . repugnance may be the only voice left ...

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

...mation fields, and he cites experiments conducted by the Cambridge University-trained scientist Rupert Sheldrake, who presents evidence that people can sense when someone is staring at the back of the...

28. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

...ng the revolt of the proletariat. Marx’s unbelief was an offshoot of his economic theories, which held that religion, once a rather harmless superstition, had become a tool of the ruling class. ...

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

... 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 sake of politeness. But I am weary of being nice. Afte...