What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?Source: Esquire Magazine
This radical Christian's ministry for the poor, The Simple Way, has gotten him in some trouble with his fellow Evangelicals. We asked him to address those who don't believe.
Godless Billboard Moved After ThreatsSource: wcpo.com
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.
Climate change belief given same legal status as religionSource: Telegraph
In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".
Video: The Origins of Supernatural Beliefs?Source: elementsofhumanity.com
A short (3:38 minute) video with Bruce Hood, Director of the Bristol Cognitive Developmental Center at the University of Bristol. He researches the origins of supernatural beliefs, development of face and gaze processing, development of inhibition & cognitive development.
Atheist ads to adorn New York subway stations Source: CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming "Thank God" when arriving at their destination subway station beginning Monday.
A coalition of atheist groups will place ads in New York subway stations next week.

If you're a believer, what does God "look like" to you?

This post isn't about the next life – we'll discuss that later. Rather, this is about the doorway called death, and what it affirms about life, love and truth.

This is always a difficult question to get consensus on because no one has ever died and come back to tell the world what happens.

I believe in a single substance, the mother of all forces, which engenders bodies and the consciousness of everything, visible and invisible.
I believe in a single Lord, the Human Mind, the unique son of the substance of the universe, born from the substance of the universe after …

One of the biggest confidence killers is our desire to be perfect beings. But the real question is: When we have reached perfection, what happens next? Where else do we go? Do we stop dead and say: That's enough? Do we cease to grow and develop, fossilising where we are?

Today is the Feast Day of my friend Padre Pio.
Many of us have a conversion story, or as some say, a Born Again experience.
Padre Pio is a pivotal part of my conversion story. Saint Padre Pio was a walking, talking evidence of the power of the Scriptures.
Freethought Gets Aboard 75+ San Francisco BusesSource: ffrf.org
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 …

Ok first off I'm a religious person but it wasn't always so. I grew up in a home that went to church on sunday and that was pretty much it. I knew my parents believed in the Bible and all but life was just too busy at the time.

Belief is an amazingly flexible thing. Just look at the stuff we see right here in this forum. Some people believe in God, others assert there is no God.

Now I might be my own worse enemy when it comes to believing in that which I can't prove. I question everything and look for hidden meanings even with friends.
The 4 Yorkshire Ex BelieversSource: crispian-jago.blogspot.com
The Scene:
Four well-dressed men are sitting together at a vacation resort.
'Farewell to Thee' is played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.
EX-JEWISH YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable book on gene centric evolution.
Belief or Brainwashing? - St. Petersburg TimesSource: St. Petersburg Times > Local News
Mohamed Bary and his wife, Aysha, with their son Rilvan, say they don't want to kill their daughter for converting to Christianity. "It's completely false," Mohamed Bary said.
At OpEdNews: Why Funding for Abortions is Essential to the Nation's HealthSource: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
Ron Paul, the prominent libertarian, has argued that to include abortion funding in a national health care plan would would be immoral. Jim Fetzer, a prominent philosopher, contends that the opposite is the case and that to exclude abortion funding would be immoral.
The silliest smear -- "fundamentalist" atheismSource: The Economist
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.
Praying for a revolution in economicsSource: Guardian Unlimited
Neoclassical economics looks like physics because the equations were those of physics. Its history is a history of problematic borrowings from the natural sciences, leading to a mathematical sophistication increasingly divorced from reality.