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

...nary hearing. After 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 c...

2. Science is just one gene away from defeating religion
(Religion/Atheism)

...ion of the scientific harvest.  Human beings are supremely social animals. We recognise people and judge their feelings and intentions from their expressions and actions. Our thoughts about ours...

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

... such polytheisms, with their brightly coloured elephant-headed gods and the like, as obviously bonkers. Judge not … Maher et al are willing to pop a few subtitles on the screen to contradict t...

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

... being burnt from all sides but the leaves became greener and greener." Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson invalidated corruption charges brought against Zuma. Nicholson held that ...

5. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...efore, is either impotent or evil. Pious readers will now execute the following pirouette: God cannot be judged by merely human standards of morality. But, of course, human standards of morality are p...

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

...esperate by ped lars of so-called Aids cures. In that sense, Rath was probably a spent force long before Judge Dumisani Zondi ruled that his clinical trials were unlawful. He had been crowded out of t...

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

... is polemic in nature and while its proponents are glorified, its detractors are demolished throughout. Judge Jones’s verdict against ID is mentioned – “Judge Jones not only struck ...

8. Why multiculturalism must be abandoned
(Religion/General)

...nterprises. Last month, a plain, unsensationalist documentary called Divorce: Sharia Style looked at the judgements they hand down. If a man wants a divorce, he simply has to say to his wife, "...

9. Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete?
(Science/General)

...re people would get the response they want - which is to be able to have their own children." Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute faith group, said the Newcastle project flies in the face of ...

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

...ing a debate on the matter. But a complaint was made against him and he was arrested, tried by religious judges without – say his friends and family – being allowed legal representation an...

11. New move to lift Turkey scarf ban
(Religion/General)

...KP being comprehensively re-elected in July. It is not yet clear how the secular elite - army generals, judges and university officials - will react to the government's latest move. Reposted fro...

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

... of cruelty. The mother was convicted of two counts of cruelty by wilfully failing to protect her sons. Judge Christopher Prince, remanding the father in custody, said: "You breached the positio...

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

...for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, the judge in charge of the court said Wednesday. The student, Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh, 23, who also ...

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

...ubject matter could offend Muslims. The digital book, re-telling the classic fairy tale, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues". Becta, the governme...

15. The Catholic Church's devillish practice of exorcism
(Religion/General)

Here is the biggest, richest and most powerful religious institution on earth, explicitly telling deeply mentally ill people the Devil is within them. Last year, I met a drawn, defeated fourteen-year

16. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...d people to frown on using an old flag to clean a bathroom. Violations of purity repelled the people who judged the morality of consensual incest and prevented the moral vegetarians and nonsmokers fro...

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

...m at all.) After all the trials were 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 ...

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

...s’ album The Queen Is Dead. In October 2007, a long-delayed inquest into her death opened before a judge and jury to render an official verdict on the improbable theory put forward by Harrods&rs...

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

...39;, to wait for the time when he will return to raise every human who has ever lived in bodily form for judgement, then cast most of us into a pit of fire and take a select few into his 'kingdom&...

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

...belief necessarily entails certain statements about how the universe works, that these statements can be judged as scientific hypotheses, and that as such they should be rejected in favor of alternati...

21. Cultural Selection - The evolution of Evolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...blem for anyone who equates genes with human nature, or who expects evolution to take God's place as judge and perfecter of humankind. It may be true that today's God a human creation. But so,...

22. Secret Societies Shape Western Politics
(Religion/General)

...law, security and government. "According to a BBC report," writes Gwenzi, "more than 200 judges and over 1 000 magistrates in Britain owned up to being Freemasons," indicating how...