The organization Secular Life has been making waves over the last couple of weeks with its Green Hills billboard advertisement featuring the following: "Not Religious? You're not alone." The brainchild of Nashvillian Thaddeus Schwartz, the group seeks to provide community for fol …

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Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a tradi …

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In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says "Don't Believe In God? You are not alone" came down early Thursday morning.

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Ohio's three largest cities are home to new chapters of the Coalition of Reason.

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Supernatural beliefs about mind, morality and the self are losing plausibility as naturalistic explanations gain traction. In response, supernaturalists argue that gaps in these explanations are evidence for the failure of naturalism.

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The sky cake is a lie!

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We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here are the results.

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The Madison, Wis.-based association, representing nearly 14,000 nonbelievers nationwide and more than 2,000 in California, is unveiling 75 "king" exterior signs with the messages: "Imagine No Religion" and Mark Twain's "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." Bo …

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In an 18-page order, Judge Thomas Wingate said the General Assembly created an official government position when it passed a law requiring the office to acknowledge "the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth."

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Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation.

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Could it be divine intervention that's kept Florida safe from hurricanes since Gov. Charlie Crist took office? Crist told a group of real estate agents Friday that he's had prayer notes placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem each year and no major storms have hit Florida.

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The Creation/Evolution Journal was first published in 1980. In 1997, it became a part of Reports of the National Center for Science Education.

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On one hand you have faith that makes people fly planes into buildings, genitally mutilate young girls, murder abortion doctors (in church), stone adultresses, outlaw certain forms of consensual sex or even just make it impossible to buy beer on Sunday in some states.

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In the discussion period I couldn't stand it any more and challenged the speakers: "I'm Dan Dennett, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and we are forever being told that we should do our homework and consult with the best theologians.

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So why am I so....emotional about it?

So my doubt continues. This weekend Hubby and I went to the bible camp that we met at for the first time in several years. Because of work scheduling (mostly meaning....we need money), we left quite early. But the few days we spent there had me thinking even more.

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In a recent diary, someone made the statement that von Brunn was an atheist as evidence that "dogmatic atheism" is just as dangerous as dogmatic christianity, or something along those lines.

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Here's an amusing video of Pat Robertson answering a question on the 700 Club from a woman who is a Christian and is engaged to an atheist. He says she has to break up with him because he's working for the devil.

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Bloomington was first on the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign's list of places it hoped to run bus ads.

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In an e-mail sent to members of the society, the goal of the protest was "not to argue, debate or discuss with Tom or anyone else (although, of course people are welcome to do as they wish).

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I suspect that many professional philosophers, including ones such as myself who have no religious beliefs at all, are slightly embarrassed, or even annoyed, by the voluble disputes between militant atheists and religious apologists.

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Newsweek: The End of Christian America, Excerpts & Comments

The cover story on Newsweek this issue (April 13) is titled The Decline and Fall of Christian America. The springboard for the essay is the recent American Religious Identification Survey which shows a diminishment of influence of Christians in America.

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Once vilified in this country, non-believers today make up roughly 1 in 5 Americans. This isn't to say people like me should begin to impose our non-belief on others.

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Give Me Your Tired and Passionate, Your Innocent and Your Most Pious Believers... .

It seems so far as I can discern--your God(s) is/are merely an infinite Undertaker. This worldwide "He," comes in to perform after-the-(grusome)-facts of the awesome matter.

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Washington State's Anti-Atheist Wingnuttery

Some of you may recall February stories about Washington resident Kimberlie Struiksma's efforts to put an anti-evolution ballot initiative before Washington voters.

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Three out of four Americans call themselves Christian, according to the American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1990, the figure was closer to nine out of 10 -- 86 percent.

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