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. [...]
One of the arson suspects for the Texas church fires not only had guns in his house, he had — wait for it — an atheist book!
One of two East Texas church arson suspects kept books on demon possession and atheism as well as assault rifles and guns, and may have left graffiti offering inside [...]
by VorJack
According to an article by CNN, some of the fans of Avatar are having a hard time coming down.
James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the [...]
This is a bit frightening:
Most were shocked by the charred scene of Joe Stack’s kamikaze attack on a Texas IRS office, but for an alarmingly growing number of Americans Stack is a hero.
The Web was studded with praise for Stack almost immediately after his plane slammed into the Austin office complex Thursday morning. The admiring [...]
by VorJack
More news about the “Haiti ten,” the American missionaries who were arrested for trying to take 33 Haitian children across the border without proper authorization. The principle organizer was a woman named Laura Silsby, and she is the focus of a lot of the attention right now.
First, from the Idaho Statesman,
Passing acquaintances and [...]
by VorJack
The New York Times has come out with a very interesting article about the fight over textbook history standards in Texas: How Christian Were the Founders?. It’s a long, weaving article that uses the debate in Texas as a frame to discuss the movement among Conservative Christians to inject more explicit mentions of [...]
By Vorjack
The cover story of the latest National Geographic is on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the offshoot of the LDS that has retained – and seems to be focused on – polygamous marriage. The article is available here.
The FLDS made headlines in the spring of 2008, [...]
by VorJack
I wrote about the conjunction between evangelicals and mixed martial arts in a previous post, based on an article from the New York Times. One of the subjects of the article, Brandon Beals, is taking exception to the way he was portrayed.
Beals is a pastor at Canyon Creek Church, a small non-denominational church [...]
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