1. God will, in fact, be mocked
(Religion/Atheism)

...e's Lebensraum. Smite, smite, smite! In the first few books of the Bible several hundred thousand non-Israelites get wiped out, on God's orders, in what can only be called ethnic cleansing. T...

2. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...ly the same 44% who go to church once a week or more, who believe that God literally promised the land of Israel to the Jews and who want to stop teaching our children about the biological fact of evo...

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

...tims, the disabled, orphans, widows and the displaced." In 2006, she embarked on a peace mission to Israel. At a press conference with Shimon Peres, the former Israeli Prime Minister, she announ...

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

...e can (for me) change this." Einstein, who was Jewish and who declined an offer to be the state of Israel's second president, also rejected the idea that the Jews are God's favoured peo...

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

...ree and a half centuries. The Salem witch trials produced fewer than 25 executions. Recent wars—the Israel-Palestine conflict, Iraq, and Northern Ireland—stem mostly from ethnic and politi...

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

...n an article published this week in the philosophy journal Time and Mind. The religious ceremonies of the Israelites included the use of psychotropic materials that can found in the Negev and Sinai, h...

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

...s into the Iraq war, only 23 percent of those with some college could locate Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel on a map. Ms. Jacoby, dressed in a bright red turtleneck with lipstick to match, was ...

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

...sumably blameless— animals as well." You begin to see where the heavy punitive measures of the Israeli government towards the Palestinians come from. ANOTHER QUIRK OF THE REL-igious right...

9. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no persecution of Jews as “Chr...

10. New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory: Evolution Not Random
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...hrough the natural selection of successful traits. The collaborative study by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Israel, the U.S, France and Germany is published in the Nove...

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

...her work be brought to a successful conclusion, many nations, including the United States, Russia, China, Israel, and Iran, have still not signed the treaty. But there was often a disturbing incongrui...

12. Are the 'New Atheists' avoiding the 'real arguments'?
(Religion/Atheism)

...ides to focus all his attention on a collection of tribal groupings in the Middle East, in particular the Israelites who are his 'chosen people' and who he obsesses over, while apparently igno...