From 9 News:
A 101-year-old woman in China has baffled doctors after growing a huge goat-like horn on her forehead.
Zhang Ruifang claims the growth first appeared only last year and has since expanded to be more than 6cm long.
Now her family in Linlou, Henan province, are concerned about a second mark on the [...]
Italian soccer coach Domenico Di Carlo has become “the first person ejected in European soccer competition for transgressing the new Serie A rule on blasphemy”:
It happened last week, three minutes into the second half of his game against Cagliari, when Di Carlo reportedly said “porco dio,” which according to Babelfish, translates into English as “God [...]
Sam Harris’s “The Reason Project” has been renamed to Project Reason. It seems there was some confusion with the Reason Foundation. They have changed the url to project-reason.org.
I think it’s a better name — shorter and catchier.
by VorJack
Saudi Arabia has its mutaween, self-appointed religious police who enforce Sharia law. It looks like Texas is starting to develop its own Christian version.
The Texas Observer has an article about the organization based in Amarillo, Texas, called “Repent Amarillo.” It looks to be a conservative Christian militant group dedicated to harassing and [...]
by Jesse Galef –
The atheist movement made a big step last Friday when the Secular Coalition for America arranged a policy briefing with White House officials. A delegation of about 60 nontheists convened in the nation’s capital to engage with the administration. I was lucky enough to attend in my capacity as the [...]
by VorJack
I feel a little bit dirty for posting this, but here goes:
Wife of televangelist Benny Hinn files for divorce
The wife of televangelist Benny Hinn has filed for divorce from the high-profile pastor, whose reputation as an advocate of prosperity gospel has attracted millions of followers and criticism from lawmakers and watchdog groups over his [...]
The case of the boy being starved to death for not saying Amen is now on trial. The mother thought the boy was going to be resurrected, and she still believes he is coming back. Score another one for “faith.”
For more than a week, Ria Ramkissoon watched passively as her one-year-old son wasted away, [...]
by Jesse Galef -
In less than three hours, I’ll be part of a delegation of 60+ atheists who are meeting with Obama administration officials for a policy briefing to discuss some of our concerns. Although administrations regularly engage with religious groups for such meetings, this will be the first ever with the American nontheist community. [...]
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