Thank You For Not Expressing Yourself
9 March 2010, 12:24 pm
Not every devotee of reason is himself reasonable: that is a lesson that the convinced, indeed militant, atheist, Richard Dawkins, has recently learned. It would, perhaps, be an exaggeration to say that he has learned it the hard way, for what he has suffered hardly compares with, say, what foreign communists suffered when, exiling themselves...

4/7 Debate – D’Souza v. Hitchens – Is Religion the Problem?
8 March 2010, 10:31 pm
Atheist and author Christopher Hitchens and Catholic conservative Dinesh D’Souza will present a public debate on the topic “Is Religion the Problem?” on April 7 at the University of Notre Dame.

Why Atheists are Suddenly Vocal
8 March 2010, 7:04 pm
People are upset about the new atheists, and they have no idea why it has happened.

Who cares for Christian pets after the Rapture? Atheists!
8 March 2010, 6:30 pm
"We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you've received your reward." Is this business in the business of fleecing Christian sheep, or what?

Now VEGANS are covered by Harman's equality law
8 March 2010, 10:57 am
Vegans, teetotallers and atheists are to be given the same protection against discrimination as religious groups, under Harriet Harman's new equality laws. People who don't eat animal products and refuse to wear leather have been singled out for inclusion under the legislation by Labour's super-quango - the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

Vegans should be protected from discrimination, says equalit
7 March 2010, 5:48 pm
Vegans and atheists should have the same protection against discrimination as religious groups according to guidance on new equality laws proposed by Harriet Harman.

School stands behind teaching of creationism (Business Examiner)
9 March 2010, 11:55 am
others also read... Practice what you preach. This is the message from the Kamloops Christian School to a local atheist group that has taken issue with the independent school’s course selection.

Man Tries to Get Atheists to Give More (FOX Springfield)
9 March 2010, 11:36 am
Dale McGowan, an atheist and self-described “secular humanist,” has started the Foundation Beyond Belief organization to get his fellow non-believers to be more charitable in their community.

Irish police arrest 7 on murder plot charges (CNN)
9 March 2010, 11:33 am
Irish police arrested seven people Tuesday suspected of plotting to commit a murder abroad, they announced.

China accuses Dalai Lama as Tibet anniversary looms (AFP via Yahoo! News)
9 March 2010, 10:13 am
China on Tuesday accused the Dalai Lama of trying to "create chaos" in Tibet, on the eve of the sensitive anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule that drove the Buddhist monk into exile.

We atheists are not all godforsaken (Herald Sun)
9 March 2010, 6:21 am
I AM not surprised this weekend's Melbourne Global Atheist Convention is sold out. It's time we non-believers had a say.

University Students Hold Controversial Porn for Bibles Swap (KCEN-TV Temple)
8 March 2010, 5:05 pm
A controversial program called "Smut for Smut" caused quite a stir on the University of Texas San Antonio campus. An atheist group at the school gave out adult magazines in exchange for any type of religious text.

When Bishops Play Politics
They see themselves as crusaders for human rights—protectors of the innocent, the voiceless, and the powerless.

15 March 2010 | 1:00 am

Massacres shake uneasy Nigeria
The attackers came at night and surrounded this small farming village, firing shots in the air to scare residents from their homes. Men, women and children were hacked with machetes as they rushed out.

9 March 2010 | 12:00 am

Supreme Court wades into funeral protests
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine can collect damages from a religious sect that picketed his son's funeral with vulgar placards celebrating the death of American soldiers.

9 March 2010 | 12:00 am

A policy change on abortion, but how radical?
President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear.

9 March 2010 | 12:00 am

Yamani or Your Life: A nasty attempt to coerce Danish newspapers into apologizing for the cartoons o
9 March 2010 | 9:27 am
An excerpt from the Saudi law firm suing the Danish newspapers: Over the past months my law firm has been contacted by several thousand descendants of the Prophet, who have learned about your newspaper’s republication of the drawing, depicting their esteemed ancestor as a terrorist suicide bomber with a bomb in his turban. As descendants of the Prophet, these individuals feel personally insulted, emotionally distressed and defamed by your newspaper’s re-publication of the drawing.

Scores dead in religious clashes in Nigeria
7 March 2010 | 10:16 am
More than one hundred people were feared dead in Nigeria following violent clashes between Christian villagers and Muslim herders near the central city of Jos. Ethno-religious violence claimed 326 lives in January in Jos, according to police although other observers put the overall toll at more than 550 in Jos.

Breaking With Scientology
7 March 2010 | 12:17 am
excerpt: Fifty-six years after its founding by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986, the church is fighting off calls by former members for a Reformation. The defectors say Sea Org members were repeatedly beaten by the church’s chairman, David Miscavige, often during planning meetings; pressured to have abortions; forced to work without sleep on little pay; and held incommunicado if they wanted to leave. The church says the defectors are lying. ...But recently even some celebrities have begun to abandon the church, the most prominent of whom is the director and screenwriter Paul Haggis, who won Oscars for “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash.” Mr. Haggis had been a member for 35 years. His resignation letter, leaked to a defectors’ Web site, recounted his indignation as he came to believe that the defectors’ accusations must be true.

‘We don’t know what 96% of the universe is made of’
6 March 2010 | 2:08 pm
I honestly think the wheels are coming off our picture of the way the universe works at the moment. We don’t know what 96% of the universe is made of – that tells us that we don’t understand something fundamental. It reminds me of the start of the 20th century when quantum mechanics and relativity were about to appear.