The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a campaign against a supposed war on religion. Right here in the United States!
February 6, 2012 /
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It’s delightful to see a humanist-oriented book win something, especially something as prestigious as the National Book Foundation’s annual award for nonfiction.
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Sarah Palin wasn’t the first to try to remove a librarian over religious issues. Check out this example of Catholic manipulation of ideas by controlling information.
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Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the penning of the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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Romney’s Mormonism, and his anti-humanist vitriol, are really no worse than Obama’s faith and beliefs on religion. There is one big Romney religious scandal that really ought to be a disqualifier, though – unless he’s big enough to issue an apology.
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Buddhist God experts in southwestern China have been on a suicide binge lately, and killing themselves in a most horrible manner — self-immolation. Why? You may be surprised.
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Last week we saw how a massive Catholic propaganda campaign induced approximately half of northern Vietnam’s Catholics to flee to the south. What happened to those who stayed behind?
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]Reasonable people have different opinions about the date on which the Vietnam War began, at least from the American standpoint. My pick is October 24, 1961, exactly 50 years ago today.
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Two hundred and fifty years ago last Thursday night, cries were heard from a house on a quiet street in the French city of Toulouse. Always known as a hotbed of anti-Protestant feeling during the civil wars of the Reformation, Toulouse at the time was preparing to celebrate the bicentennial of the magnificent slaughter of 4,000 unarmed Protestants on a single day, commemorated with annual parades and fireworks ever since.
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One of the leading arguments for the existence of supernatural power is sometimes called the “argument from miracles.” There are many reports of phenomena contrary to generally accepted scientific principles, that are taken as evidence for a power that can bend nature to its will – a deity.
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