‘How can you make 2011 a happier year for yourself? By thinking of others.’
This may not be the main reason for “doing good”, but according to Professor Susan Blackmore, psychologist and writer, there are benefits for everyone from resolving to think more socially at the New Year.
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Washington, DC Mayor-elect Vincent Gray has excluded nontheists from his first official inaugural event. What message does this send to DC’s nontheists?
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Courtesy AtheistCartoons.com.
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Courtesy AtheistCartoons.com.
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On behalf of its currently active and former members in the Army, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) called today on the Secretary of the Army to halt its invasive and unconstitutional “spiritual fitness” survey and rehabilitation program.
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Despite pride in our democracy, the Constitution and Bill of Rights that guarantee our fundamental liberties, Americans are woefully misinformed about our rights under the First Amendment generally and religious liberty in particular.
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Reading Genesis with an open mind, the pitfalls to taking the book literally are immediate and obvious. To overlook them shows a detrimental side to the power of the human mind.
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CONTEXT: I’ve been drinking since 8:30. It’s Tuesday. I don’t have to go back to work for another week. I’m slightly depressed (nothing another beer and some Lebowski can’t fix). And let’s just say if my self-worth were a stock, now would be the time to buy. Oh, and I have no internet until January [...]
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The UK gay Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has warmly welcomed the findings about religion in the latest British Social Attitudes survey which was published in December 2010.
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Afshan Azad, who played Padma Patil in four of the Harry Potter movies, is in hiding after being attacked by her brother and receiving death threats from him and her father . . . because she, a Muslim, was dating a Hindu.
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