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A Chaplain and an Atheist Go to War - Wall Street Journal
SANGIN, Afghanistan—They say there are no atheists in foxholes. There's one on the front lines here, though, and the chaplain isn't thrilled about it. Navy Chaplain Terry Moran is steeped in the Bible ...

3 September 2010 | 10:22 pm

Ann Coulter Calls Obama an Atheist Like It's a Bad Thing - Gather.com
Ann Coulter's upset about the far right's claims that President Barack Obama is a Muslim. And she chose today to rise to his defense. Sort of. "The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to ...

2 September 2010 | 8:21 pm

Ann Coulter calls Obama an atheist - RIGHTPUNDITS.COM
... defend him from this absurd accusation ... an atheist on her blog at Townhall.com. She goes on to address Obama’s membership for 20 years in the Trinity United Church run by the flamboyant Jeremiah Wright.

2 September 2010 | 6:55 pm

Atheist doctors hasten patient deaths - Financial Express
Updated: Friday, Aug 27, 2010 at 0850 hrs IST London: Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very ...

27 August 2010 | 12:04 am

UK study: Nonreligious doctors twice as likely to hasten death of terminally ill ... - Washington Examiner
LONDON — Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious, according to a new study in ...

26 August 2010 | 7:32 pm

Atheist doctors 'more likely to hasten death' - Utv
Terminally-ill patients would be well advised to find out the religious beliefs of their doctor, according to research showing the effect of faith on a doctor's willingness to make decisions that could hasten death ...

26 August 2010 | 12:44 pm

Atheist doctors twice as likely to take end-of-life decisions as religious ones - Daily News and Analysis
Atheist or agnostic doctors are almost twice as willing to take ethically controversial decisions that could hasten the end of a very sick patient's life as doctors who are deeply religious, according to a study. And ...

26 August 2010 | 10:14 am

British study: Nonreligious doctors hasten death more - Pioneer Press
LONDON — Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious, according to a new ...

26 August 2010 | 12:56 am

An Atheist Running for Congress - DAILY KOS
Article VI of the Constitution states that "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." My name is Wynne LeGrow. I am the Democratic ...

18 August 2010 | 7:13 pm

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3 September 2010 | 10:32 pm

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3 September 2010 | 6:19 pm

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Church of Sweden Ineptly Tries to Smear Humanist Association - ScienceBlogs (blog)

Church of Sweden Ineptly Tries to Smear Humanist Association
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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. ...

3 September 2010 | 1:36 pm

Humanists optimistic about the future - AnnArbor.com

Humanists optimistic about the future
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Ed Buckner, Ph.D., president of American Atheists, cites multiple sources revealing an increase in the number of American atheists or Humanists as well as ...

3 September 2010 | 7:15 am

Abbot and Sister take on 'bear pit' of atheists in debate over papal visit - Catholic Herald Online

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Abbot and Sister take on 'bear pit' of atheists in debate over papal visit
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Photos below taken by Andrew West, courtesy of the British Humanist Association An abbot, a nun and a Catholic journalist defended the Church last night in ...

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2 September 2010 | 2:33 pm

Just who is teaching in our public schools? - Winona Daily News

Just who is teaching in our public schools?
Winona Daily News
... by secular humanists who share and even promote the agenda of the abortionists, the homosexuals, the radical feminists, the evolutionists, the atheists, ...

1 September 2010 | 1:08 am

Bay of Fundie

President Obama Cannot Possibly be a Christian
 31 August 2010 | 2:14 am

It's a good thing we don't have one, then

I pulled this title directly from a post at Rightly Concerned, a blog published by the American Fundie Association. I’m so glad there is an organization that officially decrees what religion people are allowed to be.

I wonder if there is an application form I have to fill out? Maybe it’s like Candid Camera. All I have to do is go about my normal day, and sometime, somewhere, when I least expect it, Alan Fundie jumps out and says “Smile! You’re a Muslim!”

The article is written by some guy named Bryan Fischer. Let’s have a look:

Someone who calls himself a “Christian” must, at a bare minimum, have some allegiance to the teachings of Christ.

I agree completely. For example, let’s consider the matter of medical waste. What if that waste could be used to find cures for painful, debilitating, or terminal diseases? It would be immoral to insist on throwing that material away, wouldn’t it? Somebody who advocated allowing millions of people to suffer instead of trying to cure their affliction could not possibly be a Christian.

I just knocked the ground out from under Bryan Fischer. The rest of his article is completely discredited on this fact alone. Let’s skim through the rest of it, though, just to see what his point was.

He said something, in his own autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, that makes it impossible for us to think of him as a Christian. He may call himself one, but just because I call myself a 1963 Jaguar XKE doesn’t make me a car.

Or just because you call yourself intelligent…

In a telling excerpt from his memoir, he writes about being asked by his daughter a question regarding what happens when we die.

Here, in our pseudo-Christian president’s own words, is his answer to the question of the ages: “I wondered whether I should have told her the truth, that I wasn’t sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure of where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang.”

OK, Fischer, what’s your problem with that answer?

This is an answer that no Christian could possibly give.

Because it’s honest?

It’s an answer that could only be given by someone who does not believe in Christ, his mission, and his teaching. It’s an answer an agnostic could give, an answer an atheist could give, or an answer a spiritual inquirer could give.

Actually, atheists don’t believe in souls, so no, they couldn’t give that answer either. If Christians and atheists are incapable of giving that answer, then Christians and atheists must believe the same thing. Atheists don’t believe in God, so ergo, ipso facto, Q.E.D., Christians don’t believe in God!

It’s even an answer a Muslim could give since a Muslim can’t know he’s going to paradise unless he blows up some infidels.

Likewise, some Christians can’t know unless they shoot an abortion doctor.

Now we can’t be sure exactly what Mr. Obama meant when he confessed ignorance regarding “what existed before the Big Bang,” but the Scripture leaves no doubt on that score: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”(Genesis 1:1).

That same book tells us that the Earth is flat and that day and night existed before the sun was created. Are you sure you want to be using that as a reference?

Is President Obama a Christian? Nope.

If Bryan Fischer is a typical member of that club, I can only hope that Obama isn’t a Christian.

Dog the Jesus Hunter
 26 August 2010 | 11:17 am

I’ve been blogging about fundies for over four years. Haven’t I grown bored of it yet?

Why, no. Just when I think I’ve seen all the weirdness the fundies can create, something like this comes along.

What’s truly inexplicable is comments for this video have been turned off. I wonder why that could be?

The Crazy is Strong with This One
 22 August 2010 | 1:13 pm

I’ve been sitting on this video for a while. I wanted to write more about the lunatic behind it, but I just don’t have the time these days. If you go to the video’s YouTube page and follow some of the links, you’ll see what I mean.

So, umm, I guess by drinking Pepsi we’re helping to bring on Armageddon?

The Republicans Really Did Destroy the Country
 13 August 2010 | 3:38 am

Republican handiwork

I’m not an expert on economics, but I think I know enough about it to be able to come to reasonably-informed opinions on the issues.

I’ve been warning about the national debt to anybody who would listen since the late ’70s. You can’t run on deficit spending forever, yet that’s what we we’ve been doing.

That course was heading us to eventual disaster, but then GW Bush was installed as president by the Supreme Court and pretty much sealed our fate. Bush massively ratcheted up the already obscenely high national debt. His cronies (e.g., Haliburton, Blackwater, Goldman Sachs) looted the public treasury. He got us into two protracted, unfunded wars. His policies destroyed our manufacturing base, shipped many of our jobs overseas, and damaged the economy in numerous other ways.

Given our massive debt, enormous budget deficits, gargantuan military, and runaway spending that neither party is willing to curtail, it looks to me that a crash is inevitable. I hope I’m wrong. I tend to be a fatalist about life in general, so that might be coloring my assessment of things.

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s former budget director, is making the rounds these days warning of the bleak days ahead. He wrote an op-ed at the New York Times titled “Four Deformations of the Apocalypse”. Here are some excerpts of what he says:

[T]he new policy doctrines have caused four great deformations of the national economy, and modern Republicans have turned a blind eye to each one.

The first of these started when the Nixon administration defaulted on American obligations under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement to balance our accounts with the world. Now, since we have lived beyond our means as a nation for nearly 40 years, our cumulative current-account deficit — the combined shortfall on our trade in goods, services and income — has reached nearly $8 trillion. That’s borrowed prosperity on an epic scale.

When the dollar was tied to fixed exchange rates, politicians were willing to administer the needed castor oil, because the alternative was to make up for the trade shortfall by paying out reserves, and this would cause immediate economic pain — from high interest rates, for example. But now there is no discipline, only global monetary chaos as foreign central banks run their own printing presses at ever faster speeds to sop up the tidal wave of dollars coming from the Federal Reserve.

The second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt.… This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.

The third ominous change in the American economy has been the vast, unproductive expansion of our financial sector. Here, Republicans have been oblivious to the grave danger of flooding financial markets with freely printed money and, at the same time, removing traditional restrictions on leverage and speculation.

The fourth destructive change has been the hollowing out of the larger American economy. Having lived beyond our means for decades by borrowing heavily from abroad, we have steadily sent jobs and production offshore.

The day of national reckoning has arrived.… [I]t’s a pity that the modern Republican Party offers the American people an irrelevant platform of recycled Keynesianism when the old approach — balanced budgets, sound money and financial discipline — is needed more than ever.

Stockman was also interviewed on All Things Considered recently. I’ll try to embed the interview below.

Bottom line: We’re undertaxed and overspent and have been so for decades.

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Blasphemy Channel. Pissing off religious people one laugh at a time. Created by: louisck Original Video Link: www.youtube.com Their main page:www.youtube.com Subscribe and you'll forget about the time you was raped by your priest.
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Music: Willow and the Light Source: incompetech.com HUMANISM AND ITS ASPIRATIONS / HUMANIST MANIFESTO III Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933* * Humanist Manifesto is a trademark of the American Humanist Association-© 2003 American Humanist Association SOURCE: www.americanhumanist.org Music: I Can't Wait (2001) - Mirwais Video Made Solely For Educational Purposes No Copyright Infringement Intended ------------------------------------------- Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity. The lifestance of Humanism—guided by reason, inspired by compassion, and informed by experience—encourages us to live life well and fully. It evolved through the ages and continues to develop through the efforts of thoughtful people who recognize that values and ideals, however carefully wrought, are subject to change as our knowledge and understandings advance. This document is part of an ongoing effort to manifest in clear and positive terms the conceptual boundaries of Humanism, not what we must believe but a consensus of what we do believe. It is in this sense that we affirm the following: Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis. Humanists find that science is the best method for determining this knowledge as well as for solving problems and <b>...</b>
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Sauvignon Blanc sighting
 3 September 2010 | 6:18 pm

disguised in plain sight

I found this appearance of His Noodliness on a bottle of Chilean wine. Once again our lord blesses us with his infinite wisdom: Pasta goes great with white wine!

-Georg

Parking structure sighting
 2 September 2010 | 3:36 am

hurling meatball

FSM has appeared in the parking structure at my work.  He is apparently a vengeful god, as he is seen hurling one of his meatballs.

-Whistler

Virgin Mary sighting is clearly the FSM
 30 August 2010 | 11:01 am

A church in North Carolina has been receiving a lot of attention over a "Virgin Mary" sighting.  In quotes, because it’s clearly the FSM.  Take a look: 

Mary did not have noodly appendages (so far as I know)

Here’s an article about it.  I particularly liked the quotes…

This was, to me, I feel like, an answer to prayer. I think (God) sent us a miracle.

Feel free to leave comments and set them straight.

Bronze ring creation
 26 August 2010 | 8:09 pm

Heath Carter of Burnt Wood Studio in Adelaide made this beautiful bronze FSM ring:

the eyes are mesmerizing

notice the meatballs

Beautiful, and practical, I have to say.  Amazing work, Heath.

He Boiled for your sins
 25 August 2010 | 9:25 am

never forget

Zach’s drawing, I love it.  

I want to see the FSM being drained in a Colander.  Anyone?

Fundies Say the Darndest Things!

nmrabbit, CNSNews
 3 September 2010 | 3:56 am

The US Census says there are only .7% of the US population that are non-believers. I take issue with that claim. 12% of the population are far-left liberal progressive idiots. So that makes it 12.7% non-believers, because anybody who visciously attacks somebody orally or phylically is a non-believer. Most were born during the 50,60,70 and 80's. Very little parent guidance and very little religous training. Only time they were in church was for a wedding or funeral. Some for free food. Having never read either the Koran or the Bible, I don't understand how they can have a view on the subject. That's like telling everybody how to do or how good *** is, when you have never had any. These people need to be pitied. They are the mob. Not the gang type either. They always follow a leader. They don't care or want to know who or what the leader stands for; they just got to follow a leader. Because, following a leader allows them to excuse themselves from knowledge.

Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), Talking Points Memo
 3 September 2010 | 3:55 am

We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties and that we remain a Christian nation. So we're going to have to win that battle, we're going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things.

symach, GameFAQs
 2 September 2010 | 11:14 pm

Alot of people find homosexuality unnatural and gross. How are the people who believe this any less entitled to their opinion than those who find it hip and cool? Tolerance is a two way street. And if you want to come on here preatching tolerance, maybe we should start talking about tolerance for people who um, want to be with animals too lol Let people believe what they want to believe, and stop throwing around the intolerance card, you call people who dont support your views of homosexuality intolerant but what does it say about "you" when you are as intolerant of their views as they are of yours. Something to consiter.

Cash, Villagevoice.com
 2 September 2010 | 11:10 pm

(about fast food and strip clubs near Ground Zero)
Those are staples of America you stupid fucking liberal anti-American piece of shit. A mosque is not although you liberals are trying to make it that way. Go live over there since you like their way of life. I hope you die in the next attacks. What a piece of shit!

James J. Lee, http://savetheplanetprotest.com/
 2 September 2010 | 9:19 am

The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!

2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.

3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!

4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??

5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)

6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don't build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!

7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people's brains until they get it!!

8. Saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You're the media, you can reach enough people. It's your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!

9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.

10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!

11. You're also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.

Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.

For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human's lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!

It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It's like a couple are having 30 babies even though it's just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!

Also, war must be halted. Not because it's morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!

The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.

Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.

The humans? The planet does not need humans.

You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!

I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.

These are the demands and sayings of Lee.

Bill Johnson, www.americandecency.org
 2 September 2010 | 7:24 am

To be sure, the rally held two blocks from the World Trade Center was not a decisive defeat of the enemy like that dealt by the storied British “Desert Rats” to Hitler’s Afrika Korps in November 1942. But there was something pivotal about the fact that throngs of ordinary Americans – many of them family or friends of those who died on 9/11 – had come together to stand for hours in an intermittent rain not just to contest the construction of a megamosque at a wholly inappropriate location, but in informed opposition to the impetus behind that mosque: shariah. …

God-fearing Americans need to be informing themselves on the implications of the movement of those practicing taqqiya and stealth jihad. And, most importantly God-fearing Americans need to be humbling themselves and seeking His face and remembering their God and all that He has done for us in this land of so much abundance, grace,mercy and Truth.

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Hitchens: Don't Bother Praying For Me
Ever since being diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus, Christopher Hitchens has been hearing it from religious people—from those who are praying for his soul, to those who think the cancer is a punishment sent from God. He scoffs at the latter. “Why not a thunderbolt for yours truly,...

2 September 2010 | 6:55 pm

Utah Highway Crosses Violate Constitution: Court
Erecting roadside crosses for fallen members of Utah's Highway Patrol is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court has decided. The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals, addressing a lawsuit launched by an atheist group, said the memorials—which typically stand twelve feet high and include photographs and biographical information—constitute government...

20 August 2010 | 9:41 am

Mosque Foes: Stop Catering to Feelings of 9/11 Families
The dispute over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque”—which is actually several blocks away, mind you—“has now sunk to a level of stupidity that really does shame the memories” of the 9/11 victims, writes Christopher Hitchens in Slate . As an arch-atheist, Hitchens doesn’t much like the Cordoba Initiative, or...

10 August 2010 | 2:04 pm

Thinking About God Stresses Out Atheists
Thinking about God activates a part of the brain that relieves stress, but only for believers—atheists experience heightened stress when exposed to God-related ideas. A study by Canadian researchers found that when those with religious beliefs were primed to think about God, it decreased activity in the anterior cingulate...

7 August 2010 | 7:53 pm

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ChristWire Web Site Mixes Satire, Religion and the Weather
The “Is My Husband Gay?” column brought new popularity to Christwire. Yes, it’s all one big joke.

4 September 2010 | 12:43 am

Evangelicals coach China in abstinence-only education
Talk about strange bedfellows: Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, a conservative evangelical leader, partnered with the atheist Chinese government to help implement abstinence-only programs in the country. William Wan at the Washington Post explains how the strange collaboration happened: It is also the result of a narrow confluence of interests: Evangelical Christian groups [... ]

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Web Site Mixes Satire, Religion and the Weather
The target audience is not just Christians, but those who do not question what they hear on the news.

3 September 2010 | 2:12 pm

Vanessa Beardsley: Farley’s green cemetery is the right thing to do
Dear Editor: I am not a Wiccan. Or a vegan. Or a member of PETA or Greenpeace. I am neither a Catholic nor an atheist. I am simply a person who does not believe that I have a right to lay claim to this Earth once I have left it.

3 September 2010 | 5:52 am

AlterNet.org: Belief

Will Glenn Beck's Creepy "Black Robe Regiment" Use Churches to Sway Voters?
Though Beck keeps insisting that his "Black Robe Regiment" won't be about endorsements, two members say their mission is to return to their churches and boost voter involvement.

2 September 2010 | 3:00 am

Inside the Great Reptilian Conspiracy: From Queen Elizabeth to Barack Obama -- They Live!
A look at one of the more fascinating alternate universes of belief.

1 September 2010 | 3:00 am

Newt Gingrich Teams With Anti-Gay Zealot Lou 'Uganda' Engle For U.S. Cyber-'Revival'
We have entered the era of cyber-organizing by the religious right, and Newt Gingrich, futurist, is all over it.

1 September 2010 | 3:00 am

Cooler Than Thou: Will Hipsters Ruin Christianity?
Where's the proper balance between hip and devout? Between the "natural" and the "marketed?"

28 August 2010 | 3:00 am

Wikileaked CIA Memo Warns of American Jewish Extremists Exporting Terror Abroad
A CIA memo released by Wikileaks on Wednesday looks at America's long tradition of exporting violent extremism abroad, and its implications for U.S. foreign policy.

26 August 2010 | 3:00 pm

Women Fight Exclusion In Catholic Priesthood
The church excommunicates women priests and those who ordain them -- a punishment never once doled out to any child-abusing priest, nor the bishops who protected them.

25 August 2010 | 11:00 am

How Liberal Mosque Defenders Are Playing into the Hands of the Islamophobes
Consider the troublesome terms and conditions upon which Park51 has emerged a defensible endeavor within liberal discourse.

24 August 2010 | 1:00 pm

M.I.A.'s Music Bravely Keeps Tackling Media Taboos, and Her Critics Just Can't Handle It
Reviewers miss the message behind M.I.A.'s music and try to belittle her political efforts.

23 August 2010 | 1:00 pm

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Stephen Hawking in ‘The Grand Design’: God did not create the universe
2 September 2010 | 3:00 pm
When it came to the creation of the Universe, God just wasn’t necessary. That’s the conclusion renowned scientist Stephen Hawking has made in his latest tome, “The Grand Design,” set to hit book sellers next week. “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going,” Hawking writes, according to an excerpt featured in London’s The Times. The Big Bang was a natural event which would have happened without the help or involvement of God, he argues.
Believers See Jesus On Power Pole
1 September 2010 | 3:48 pm
Afghanistan’s dirty little secret
1 September 2010 | 11:48 am
Women are simply unapproachable. Afghan men cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they can’t even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle. “How can you fall in love if you can’t see her face,” 29-year-old Mohammed Daud told reporters. “We can see the boys, so we can tell which are beautiful.” Even after marriage, many men keep their boys, suggesting a loveless life at home. A favored Afghan expression goes: “Women are for children, boys are for pleasure.”
Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi
30 August 2010 | 10:44 am
An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week. “Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this earth,” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual head of the religious Shas party in Israel’s government, said in a sermon late Saturday, using Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s popular name. “God should strike them and these Palestinians—evil haters of Israel—with a plague,” the 89-year-old rabbi said in his weekly address to the faithful, excerpts of which were broadcast on Israeli radio Sunday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from the comments and said Israel wanted to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians that would ensure good nei...(more)

Selected religion-related news from around the Web.
AP: Egypt TV show stirs debate over Muslim Brotherhood
The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles and values.
San Francisco Chronicle: Court won't force state to defend Prop. 8
The outlook for the legal defense of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, grew cloudier Thursday as a state appellate court refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a federal judge's ruling overturning the measure.
Boston Globe: Caritas to convert landmark
Caritas Christi Health Care yesterday said it plans to convert Landmark Medical Center of Woonsocket, R.I., into a Catholic hospital if its agreement to acquire the financially ailing 214-bed community hospital is approved by a Rhode Island judge and state regulators.
Wash. Post: Abstinence program in China a milestone for U.S. evangelicals
If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him.