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Pat Condell’s latest video is a brutally direct and very powerful indictment of organized religion. [Video]
On the verge of weeping, Glenn Beck launches into one of his most bizarre rants yet, blaming godless atheists for everything wrong in America. And I do mean everything. [Video] UPDATE at 10/1/09 10:44:06 am: Beck claims that “In God We Trust” has been removed from US coins, but of ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Atheism, Fanaticism
Laurie Lebo (author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America) has a piece at Religion Dispatches on a biologist’s effort to get clergy on board in the fight against fundamentalist creationism: Evolution Sunday: Pastors Celebrate Darwin. It’s been 150 years since ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Atheism, Darwin, Lebo
When Barack Obama said, “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers” in his inaugural speech, he ran afoul of many fundamentalist Christians, who reject this kind of inclusiveness and think atheists are Satanic imps from hell: Obama’s Nonbeliever Nod Unsettles Some. With that ...
Today’s creationist hate mail comes from a reader in Cleveland, Tennessee, who titles his rant “Atheism:” Do you still Not get it? Your Atheism is NOT OUR PROBLEM! IT IS YOUR PROBLEM! YOU DEAL WITH IT. NOT US! Your not going to convince us ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Atheism, Hate Mail
In the holiday season’s next big controversy, the Catholic League is calling for a boycott of the film The Golden Compass. Yahoo! Movies has posted the first five minutes of the film (an appealing variation on the “trailer” concept).
Now here’s a theological argument you can get your teeth into, as Hitchens reviews Hitchens. Christopher is an atheist. I am a believer. He once said in public: “The real difference between Peter and myself is the belief in the supernatural. “I’m a materialist and he attributes his presence here ...