A team of planet-hunting scientists say they've discovered a planet 20 light years from earth that could be the most earth-like body ever found. There is no direct way to determine right now whether there is life there. The makeup of the atmosphere is unknown, but the gravity and temperature are similar to earth. With [...]
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On both sides of the Atlantic, people are forced into having to pretend that they are religious. The U.S. Air Force. In the United States Air Force Academy, cadets who want to maintain good standing are having to pretend to be fundamentalist Christians, says the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). MRFF as demanded that the [...]
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Apparently, the "Taking America Back" conference sponsored by World Net Daily revealed "shocking information" to its attendees: America's sexual revolution was ignited by one pedophile. According to Dr. Judith Reisman, author of "Sexual Sabotage: How One Mad Scientist Unleashed a Plague of Corruption and Contagion on America," Dr. Alfred Kinsey was a pedophile who received [...]
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Do religions forbid human organ donation? Only one: Islam. But believers of many faiths think their religions forbid it.
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This should surprise no one. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge [...]
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**** I have the privilege of knowing and working with extremely brave people who have walked away from the Christian Dominionist bible-based cult. And Vyckie Garrison is one of the bravest. She has come forward with a statement about Daniel Webster and just who this Bill Gothard megliomaniac really is, and why their association IS [...]
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. . . and what is it, anyway?
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A Pew Forum study discovers what many atheists and agnostics knew all along . . . atheists know more about religion than believers.
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To follow their news, I signed up for the Christian dominonist Pray & ACT and have been receiving one or two emails a day from Jim Garlow and others. These emails are daily instructions and lectures that are part of a 40-day "prayer and fasting" event. Pray & ACT is one of Lou Engle's projects [...]
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Last night, I received a notice from The Centre for Inquiry and the University of Waterloo that a preliminary report of the major findings from their survey of 2,563 atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, humanists and skeptics has been issued. The 10-page PDF report can be downloaded here. The report follows a general solicitation for participants that [...]
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