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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 Threats
Source: 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.

Ohio: Billboards put up for nonbelievers
Source: The Columbus Dispatch

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

The Paradoxical Relationship of Religion and Science - Pew Research Center
Source: pewresearch.org

While religion and science usually strive to answer different questions, the battles over issues such as evolution and the study of consciousness show that they also sometimes tread on each other's turf.

Climate change belief given same legal status as religion
Source: 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".

3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly People
Source: AlterNet.org

I want to talk today about three specific religious beliefs.

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.

Life, Love and Truth - What's Death Got to Do With It?

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.

What do you personally think happens after we die?

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.

The Scientific Creed: Exposed

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 …

5 Main Factors That Drive Perfectionists

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?

Feast of Saint Padre Pio, September 23, My Good Friend

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 Buses
Source: 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 …

Religion....how does it affect your life?

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.

Mother upset after Kentucky high school coach took players to church
Source: USA Today

The head football coach at Breckinridge County High School took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them were baptized, school officials say.

You're a liar! Oh yeah, well you're just WRONG!

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.

Life After Death. What happened to me.

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.

Video - Sam Harris on Real Time with Bill Maher
Source: YouTube

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

The 4 Yorkshire Ex Believers
Source: 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 Times
Source: 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 Health
Source: 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" atheism
Source: 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 economics
Source: 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.

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