1. "Possessed" girl barred from school
(Religion/General)

...h teachers and pupils believed she was "devil-possessed". At the three-day camp in the Magaliesberg, the girl screamed that she could see an "axe man" coming to kill two girls, ...

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

...nary process of variation, natural selection, and heredity a step further and in The Selfish Gene he applies it to a process of human simulation and cultural transfer: biological genes are extended to...

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

...ol: Paragraph 6.1 of the National Policy on Religion in Education clearly indicates that school assemblies must reflect the multi-religious nature of the whole of South Africa: "Where a religio...

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

... is not even in the dictionary, and my spell-checker is foxed by it - the pseudo religion/science which lies at the heart of Steiner education (and also biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medici...

5. Who Started the War on Christmas?
(Religion/Atheism)

...ed for the first British child born in the Americas. Brimelow’s new venture provided a forum to allies like Jared Taylor, a white supremacist publisher, and Kevin MacDonald, an evolutionary psyc...

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

...ft. The priests spread the message that child-witches bring destruction, disease and death to their families. And they say that, once possessed, children can cast spells and contaminate others. The r...

7. Religious sect 'brainwashing' Maties
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

...olarships or earnings to the church; church members becoming slowly isolated from their friends and families; and members only being allowed to date within the church. There have also been reports of ...

8. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...moral failing. Only the atheist has realized this. The atheist is simply a person who has perceived the lies of religion and refused to make them his own. Reposted from : http://www.truthdig.com/dig/...

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

... Jacoby’s screen adaptation of James Carroll’s book “Constantine’s Sword” lies a question to which each person of faith must find his own answer. When your core beliefs c...

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

...creatures from these times were only able to develop their young inside eggs. Before this find, the earliest evidence for this form of reproduction came from reptile fossils dating to the Mesozoic Er...

11. Scientists rally against creationist 'superstition'
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... – were becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to evolution, saying he was "telling lies and insulting people's religion" by teaching the subject. "They want permis...

12. Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
(Religion/General)

... Ian Haworth, from the Cult Information Centre which provides advice for victims of cults and their families, said: "This is an extraordinary situation. If it wasn't so serious it would be fa...

13. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol
(Religion/General)

...el prices. "Woe be unto those people that are really greedy and taking advantage of American families," he proclaimed from his pump pulpit. "These prices will come down, just like t...

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

...ic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression," he later wrote. In his later years he referred to a ...

15. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
(Science/General)

...ientific authority under fire from so many corners? Sociologist Harry Collins thinks part of the answer lies in a misunderstanding of expertise itself. Like Jane Goodall living among the chimps, Colli...

16. Citing Faith, Bush Defends War Actions
(Religion/General)

...n a 42-minute speech to the National Religious Broadcasters convention, Mr. Bush called upon European allies to step up their efforts in Afghanistan, and conceded that recent security gains in Iraq &q...

17. Religion a figment of human imagination
(Religion/General)

...sion of the Stone Age. At around the same time, tools that had been monotonously primitive since the earliest examples appeared 100,000 years earlier suddenly exploded in sophistication, art began app...

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

...ch assumes religious-sectarian traits. It is veiled creationism. There are a few examples on which it relies, most of which have been refuted by authoritative scientists. They try to make ID proof of ...

19. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

...e New York City Atheists in January, two former Jehovah's Witnesses recounted a childhood rooted in lies and indoctrination. The young woman, who used a pseudonym for fear of never being able to s...

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

...ers". While, as for the Lutherans, Martin Luther himself wrote a book called On the Jews and their Lies from which Hitler quoted. And Luther publicly said that "All Jews should be driven fro...

21. Immune system differences found
(Science/General)

...pecialised slide capable of containing thousands of genes derived from blood cells. Sixty nuclear families, each including a mother, a father and a child were studied. Thirty were from Utah in the U...

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

...he West has the most unaffiliated people. •Mormons and Muslims are the groups with the largest families; more than one in five Mormon adults and 15 percent of Muslim adults in the U.S. have three...

23. Getting the public to pay attention to good science
(Science/General)

...tion programs. In the US, about 0.3 percent of parents are now opting out; Schuchat says that these families cluster, demonstrating how opting out is a largely social phenomenon.  Unfortunately, ...

24. Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
(Religion/General)

...ng person or run away with someone they love. "There's also violence against women within families, including sexual harassment by uncles and others. This does not exist in Islam... we have ...

25. US military accused of harboring fundamentalism
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...asting, conscious punishment of the lost." Fister emphasized the group's work to support families of soldiers deployed in the "global war on terror." "People make mistakes....

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

... legal options. Then there are the threats of excommunication – or violence – from some families. As the Muslim feminist Irshad Manji puts it: "When it comes to contemporary sharia, c...

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

...l, there is a problem of infinite regress. If God is the great designer, then who designed God? He replies to the "creationists" and the intelligent design school by explaining that natura...

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

...ublished in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.) A little background: Mankind's earliest ancestors split from the forerunners of today's chimpanzees about 6 million years ago....

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

...ir own children." Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute faith group, said the Newcastle project flies in the face of research showing that children do best when raised by a married mixed- sex c...

30. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...y focused from all sides on his actions and thoughts. To be sure, this passage occurs in one of his earliest books, and his later career showed that he could not consistently maintain such a bleak vi...