1. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

... fail us, we just shed our corporeal ballast and travel to a land where we are reunited with everyone we loved while alive. Of course, overly rational people and other rabble will be kept out of this ...

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

...hould occur. For an annual fee of $40, customers are offered the chance to send these messages to their loved ones to convince them to believe in God. The site suggests preparing messages which coul...

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

...o my organisation, and has been of great concern to me for 22 years. I get many calls from families with loved ones involved and ex-members who are in need of one form of help." The City of Londo...

4. Farmer makes miracles
(Religion/General)

...focus was also on repentance and praying for South Africa and on loving one another in the way Jesus had loved. If people were harbouring prejudices against other races, they should get it out of th...

5. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

...ear as himself. "His wife, [the actress] Lalla Ward, used to be a companion of the Doctor. The gays loved her." Ah, "the gays". Last year, an Independent on Sunday panel put Davie...

6. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?
(Religion/Atheism)

...adise after they die to be attended by 72 virgin brides and joined in due course be all their family and loved-ones. Or one might dogmatically believe that the creator of the universe condemns condom...

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

... is an afterlife, we would not fear death as we do, we would not mourn quite so agonizingly the death of loved ones, and there would be no need to engage in debates on the subject. Because no one kno...

8. Researchers use neuroimaging to study ESP
(Paranormal/General)

...s), and precognition (direct knowledge of the future). People commonly report unexplained knowledge of a loved one's death or a telephone caller's identity, for example, and attribute this kno...

9. Debunking 'The Secret'
(Paranormal/The Secret / What the Bleep)

If you loved The Secret, then you'll hate this article. The Secret claims to reveal an age-old, and tried and true secret of how to achieve health, wealth, love, happiness, and anything and everyt