You Wanted It, It's Back: Jesus Camp, written 14 hours ago, The Jesus Camp Movie

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IHEU stands up for the primacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written 4 days ago, In a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council, IHEU has highlighted the overriding, universal status of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the wide divergence between the UDHR and the...

Palin and Joel's Army, written 1 day ago, Thanks to JE. Palin's Churches and the Third Wave Part 1: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/5/0244/84583 Part 2: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/5/03830/11602 Scary video in the second part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K_1Eit0pxM&eurl=h...

Sensitive Teaching, written 1 week ago, Thread started by Chas - he/she writes: I am trying to learn about others beliefs because I am going to school to be a teacher. I do not want to promote any type of beliefs to students. However, I also do not want to discriminate against students and want to l...

Hypocrisy to make your face melt, written 1 day ago, Oh yeah. Come and get some... type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js">

The Last Month in Church Signs, written 6 days ago, I've seen a number of awful church signs in the last few weeks. I thought I'd throw them up here real quick to hold y'all over until I get a real post up in the next couple of days. Click below the fold for a terrible trio of ignorant church signs,...

Fear: A justifiable foundation for belief?, written 1 day ago, Fear is a powerful emotion. It can completely change the way our brain functions. When an animal is running for its life from a predator, it's sympathetic nervous system takes over and changes the functioning of its body. The brain hoppe...

Why Are There So Many Churches in Las Vegas?, written 13 hours ago, Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution posted this question from a reader, referring to Las Vegas: I lived there for four years and was always curious. I guess the more sin, the more churches??? Tyler offers these reasons: I would think...

Offspring Murder Club: Prayer Never Ever Works, written 2 weeks ago, Prayer never works. Just ask Javon Thompson and 1 Mind Ministries:Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA - When Javon Thompson died, he was only about 18 months old. Sometime between December 2006 and February 2007, the toddler was kil...

William P. Young's, "The Shack", written 2 hours ago, While I was still working as a pastor, I brought my doubts to my bishop and he started the process of finding me a spiritual mentor. The process of my leaving licenced ministry for an indefinite period of time went faster than the proce...

Democracy…when?, written 4 days ago, One of the stories mentioned in yesterday's blog post on the police unlawfully raiding peaceful protestor organizations, homes of liberal organizers not even planning to protest, and confiscating computers and cameras (the dangerous weapons of the press and fre...

RATIONAL THINKERS COUNCIL OF BRITAIN, written 4 days ago, RATIONAL THINKERS COUNCIL OF BRITAIN (The RTCB)At the foot of this page yesterday was the following observation by Keith Porteous Wood (National Secular Society):"There are sixty religious missions to the EU, but only one non-religious o...

Robert M. Price speech to FreeThought Fort Wayne (Video), written 11 hours ago, Robert M. Price spoke to FreeThought Fort Wayne about his book "Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms," and many other secular and religious topics in the Allen Country Public Library Theatre on A...

Blarg, written 11 hours ago, I need to stop being unemployed. Why am I still doing that? It's a bad habit, and one I should really make more effect to kick. I'll work on it tomorrow. So, just a quick link to something totally insane for you today. "Truthism" is a new one on me. I have no p...

Community Organizing: National Joke?, written 2 days ago, One of the biggest draws for me to the Conservative ideal is that it firmly embraces the "community before government" mantra when it comes to solving the problems of our society. I believe that Churches are at their purest (and mos...

Kiss a girl, go to hell!, written 14 hours ago, VINDICTIVENESS and sheer stupidity combined this week to produce one of the dumbest church signs ever seen on the planet. And that's going it some! The sign outside Blacklick's Havens Corners Church in Ohio read "I kissed a girl and I liked it, th...

I am Jane Doe, and I am an atheist, written 1 week ago, Holy Prepuce forwarded me this plea by Craig A. James (The Religion Virus), for all internet atheists to "come out" and post their real identities. My decision was due to a comment from my book agent, who asked, "What are you afr...

A Sherlock moment, written 5 days ago, This morning I travelled to the university with my partner and as she pulls up, I look out the window at the car in the adjacent space and had a Sherlock moment (it happens now and then). As I stepped out of the car, I said: "The driver of that car wears a...