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Pope Urges Bishops to Fight “Dangerous Secularism” and Same-Sex Marriage by Evangelizing Children
That is not the headline about Pope Francis that you’ll find everywhere else in the media today. No, they’re in a fawning frenzy at the moment over his new encyclical supporting climate change action.
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The Religious Right’s Full Page Denunciation of the United States Constitution
“We will not honor any decision by the Supreme Court which will force us to violate a clear biblical understanding of marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman.”
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Secular Humanism Defined - Council for Secular Humanism
Unlike religious humanism, secular humanism eschews transcendentalism in any and all forms. Depending on the context, transcendentalism can mean outright mysticism, the “spiritual” (itself a term with many meanings), or simply a rush toward emotional closure disproportionate to the knowable data.
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The Unicorn Living In My Shoe
A concise reminder about living in a cooperative society with different beliefs.
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As atheism grows in U.S., nontheists find place to meet in southern Utah
According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press study “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” the number of people who identify themselves as atheists in the United States has been rising modestly but steadily in recent years. Atheists grew from 1.6 percent in 2007 to 3.1 percent in 2014, and agnostics—people who claim neither faith nor disbelief in any god—increased from 2.4 percent to 4 percent in the same time frame.
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In which I fail to be confused
Have you ever wondered How to Confuse an Atheist? Apparently, theists do, and they even think they have a surefire recipe for doing it. I started reading this expecting a Big Daddy style gotcha tha...
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Atheists, Is It Time We Ease Up On Our Persecution of Christians? - Godless Mom
You can’t really get out of bed anymore without hearing piles of Jeebots insist they are being persecuted all over the world. Writhing together like swarms of morons, they cry, “Why did you kick God out of school?” and “We’re an oppressed minority!”. Sure, they are in actual fact, the vast majority in the USA …
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Haramadan Day 1: Religion & Tragedy
Ten years ago, I would have spent my early afternoon reciting al-Fatihah at least four times, chanting Allah hu akbar seemingly endless times to mark my transition from motion to motion. Today, instead, I say the names of people I don’t know, people whose lives were cut short:...
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How James Madison Separated Church and State
In his new book, ‘Becoming Madison,’ Michael Signer describes the political fight in which the Founding Father first formulated his ideas about God and government.
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An Ever-Growing List of What Conservatives are Blaming for the Charleston Shootings
You knew this was coming. Here’s a growing list of what conservatives are blaming for the shootings inside the Emanuel AME Church last night:
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Daniel Lapin Says 'The State Religion Of Secular Fundamentalism' Seeks To Obliterate Christianity
Rabbi Daniel Lapin was among the speakers today at Ralph Reed's "Road To Majority Conference," where he declared that "secular fundamentalism" has become an "official state religion" and that, just like Islam, it is seeking to "obliterate" Christianity from American society.
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This Week in God, 6.20.15
As a rule, the idea of "spiritual warfare" in the United States is one of those phrases that should make Americans uncomfortable.
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Gohmert: Buddhists Atheists And Muslims Can Live Here; Just Don’t Take Over Country From Christians
I thought conservatives love our Constitution. But, when it’s not convenient, they say that Jesus’ law should supercede it.
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Why Are the Poor More Religious?
The New York Times’ policy and statistics blog, The Upshot, wrote an article about the hardest places to live in the United States. The rankings, by county, included a variety of factors including education, income, unemployment, disability, life expectancy, and obesity. Based on the information, The Upshot identified ten counties clustered in the […]
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Sunday Sacrilege: Sacking the City of God
In the beginning was the Word. But, wait, no…that’s not true. In the beginning of human society, there was the Blood. The marker of our identity was the family, the tribe, the clan. What united us into functioning social units was our pedigree: the web of familial ties that knit us together. Unfortunately, that union was limited to a fairly small group of people, and could only be expanded by the commitment of marriage and birth. It limited us.
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Answering 10 Questions for Every Atheist
A Christian website has posted ten questions for every atheist, which it maintains no atheist can truly and honestly answer. These are my answers.
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Atheists and Anger
I want to talk about atheists and anger. This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this pi...
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In U.S., Socialist Presidential Candidates Least Appealing
More than nine in 10 Americans say they would vote for a qualified presidential candidate who is Catholic, a woman, black, Hispanic or Jewish. Less than half of Americans would vote for a candidate who is a socialist.
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Atheist Debates - Science and intellect are your gods!
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Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me?
13,500,000,000 years ago something happened, and we really only found out a few years ago. You live in amazing times. Don't say nobody told you. :)
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