God, humbug: Humanist holiday ads say just be good

You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars.

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Pope decries godless nature of modern societies

Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people's lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities.

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U.S. Mint Goof Creates 'Godless Dollars'

An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are fetching around $50 apiece online.

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Piety and perversion that is the catholic church

Again the world is slapped in the face by the piety and perversion that is the catholic church.

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An Oklahoma court had to sift through jurors to find some who thought they might be able to trust the word of an atheist against a Christian. This is despite the fact that belief is the norm among American criminals but not among scientists who rise to the tops of their fields.

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The district court in Vladivostok ruled Feb. 12 that Silberstein violated the terms of his visa by serving as a religious leader. His visa had been issued for promoting cultural ties, according to Russia's Interfax agency.

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Atheists in Washington State Provide a True Meaning of Christmas Story

The anti-religious placard placed in the State Capital in Washington State along side a Christmas tree and a manger scene have inadvertently served to point out the true meaning of Christmas. How is that so?

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"I've come to the conclusion that there isn't a God," he says at the start of the show. "It's randomness and it's up to us. We've got to go out and think of stuff."

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Oops, Lizzy I guess hind sight is 20/20 on this one huh? I'm not even a pol and I could have called this one a real bad idea.

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Falling behind in her reelection race, Sen. Elizabeth Dole has uncorked one hell of a charge: The Democrat running against me is godless.

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What's wrong with America? (mainly sarcasm)

1.Wrong president. 2.Wrong wars. 3.Oil guzzling society. 4.Plastic credit card society. 5.To many chiefs and not enough Indians 6.It's okay to be over weight, fast foods are great. 7.Politics is ruled by corruption and greed of capitalism.

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Rabbi Yisrael Weiss, former Chief Rabbi of the IDF, who was present during the transfer of the fallen soldiers yesterday, said that "the verification process yesterday was very slow, because, if we thought the enemy was cruel to the living and the dead, we were surprised, when we …

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Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church, the infamous and notorious "pastor" in Topeka, Kansas, known for leading ungodly pickets upon funerals of gay people and now soldiers, has finally been sanctioned.

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Just in case your thought the morally deranged, criminally insane doctors were only in the movies, think again. Britain has made it legal to combine Humans and Animals.

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Although most religious traditions call on the faithful to serve the poor, a large cross-sectional survey of U.S.

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In the dark days of 1940, the pre-Vichy French government was warned by its generals "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." After the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill growled his response: "Some chicken; some neck!" Today, the bestselling books of ' …

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Blue Streak: Ann Coulter, Again Sunday, July 01, 2007 By Susan Estrich Ann Coulter is at it again.

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By day, Joe Zamecki works as a landscaper and valet in Austin, capital of George W Bush's home state of Texas, which is regarded by many natives as God's own country.

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Atheism, Satire and Argument: A Response to my Little Brother

My little brother, Yuriy, has been amusing himself lately with a series of satirical articles about atheism. He's good at writing satire but in this case I didn't want to encourage what I knew would be a bad argument in the end so I avoided it.

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In the summer of 2006, I heard that a new book called Godless presented an insightful and devastating criticism of the theory of evolution.

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Look, no matter whether you are religious or an atheist or some other thing, no matter what you believe, I expect you'll agree with me about the importance of this question: why do so many people believe the wrong thing? The reason I can be fairly sure that this is a question whi …

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Faith is OK

New Atheists are taking arms against faith. Not content to declare that faith is stupid, they are now convinced that faith is dangerous. Newsviner Mykola, with his usual competence, recently presented the arguments of New Atheists in his "godless" series.

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The newest edition of John Brockman's Edge is up. Some interesting tidbits this time, many of which tie in pretty directly with my recent series on atheist.

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Giving up the Ghost: Why Faith is Not Okay.

So we've introduced this series, defined some terms and discussed what we mean by "faith." There has been a degree of interesting discussion, but not really anything "new" in the "New Atheist" sense.

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Giving Up the Ghost: On Faith

This is part three of my ongoing series on atheism. Part one was a statement of purpose and a general introduction, while part two sought to define exactly what I mean by the words "god" and "atheist."

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With religion increasingly polarised, is there any benefit in not knowing if there is a higher power? Mark Vernon - an ex-vicar - explains why agnosticism is his creed.

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Giving Up the Ghost: Definitions

This is part two in my ongoing series about atheism, collected under the tag godless.

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Giving Up the Ghost: A Look at the "New Atheism"

Atheism is the big buzz word these days. Dawkins, Dennet, Harris, and a slew of angry young progressives (in whose number I humbly count myself) are out for Blood - God's blood. They (dare I presume to say we?) have finally had enough of religion in its every manifestation.

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