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Obama signs executive order prohibiting faith-based organizations who receive government money from proselytizing
Seeded on Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:26 AM EST (AllGov.com)
Faith-based organizations that accept federal funding cannot proselytize while providing social programs to the needy, under a new executive order signed by President Barack Obama. The order changes the original initiative, adopted by President George W.
Ugly Betty television actor stabs his own mother to death for not believing in Jesus
Seeded on Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:53 AM EST (New York Post)
A hardworking Brooklyn mother was hacked to death early this morning allegedly by her sword-wielding, bit-actor son during a bizarre religious meltdown in which he screamed Bible passages and made obscure references to Freemasonry, police and witnesses said.
Priest arrested for trying to hire hitman to kill a boy who had accused him of molestation.
Seeded on Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:16 PM EST (The San Antonio Express-News)
A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2008 in the rural parish where he worked west of San Antonio was rearrested last week in Dallas and charged with trying to hire someone to kill his accuser.
CHANGE OF TOPIC: LET'S LOOK AT ISLAM
Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:14 PM EST
Defending Muhammad as a Prophet of God is basically impossible without throwing out the very history that Muslims have taken as fact or 1400 years.
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POLL: Are atheists and agnostics discriminated against?
Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:38 PM EDT
I read a couple of articles today refuting Harvard political scientist and author Robert Putnam's recent claim that based on research he did for his latest book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, he determined that there are almost no atheists in America.
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Dawkins at Duke: Just the Facts, Ma'am.
Seeded on Mon Oct 4, 2010 6:53 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Richard Dawkins speaks of evidence and theories. Yesterday I had an unexpected treat. Richard Dawkins, the world-renowned evolutionary biologist, was making a stop at Duke on his national tour promoting his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.
Should The Military Be Sponsoring Christian Concerts?
Seeded on Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:33 PM EDT (Alan.com - in Liberaland by Alan)
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is protesting a concert at Fort Bragg called "Rock the Fort" which, it says, improperly uses the military to convert people to Christianity.
A Call for Earthly Justice
Seeded on Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:46 PM EDT (Slate)
Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's extraordinary and limpid new work Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (a history informed by a general, if Anglican, sympathy for its subject), I came across the following passage from Cardinal John Henry Newman's classic statement of belief …
Six Awesome Deities You Wish Your Religion Had
Seeded on Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:12 PM EDT (uproxx.com)
My favorite's definitely Ame-no-Uzume, who brought Amaterasu the sun goddess out of hiding with some Demi Moore skillz: That's right, she climbed on top of an upside-down tub and began to dance while tearing off her clothes.
New developments in the Texas textbook massacre: 11th-hour amendments to social studies curriculum
Seeded on Mon May 17, 2010 6:12 PM EDT (religiondispatches.org)
All those earlier amendments you thought were extreme? They were nothing compared to these. [...] ...the staunch conservative and young earth creationist [Don McLeroy] has proposed a flurry of amendments including:
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