Source: Yahoo! News
''A Pakistani mother buys knives on chain for her son for the Ashura, a day when Shiite Muslims beat themselves with knives to mourn the death of their spiritual leader Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Mohammad....
Source: newhumanist.org.uk
If you heard it said that America's military was being taken over by agents of apocalyptic Christianity, you might think it the fiction of some leftwing alarmist.
Source: The Huffington Post
Evangelical influence is all over the election of 2008. The debates are laden with questions about candidates' favorite Bible verses or how often and heartily they pray.
Source: Racine Post
The seasonal symbol of their belief sitting in Monument Square for a week now -- the Nativity scene recalling the birth of Christ more than 2,000 years ago -- has been joined by an 8-ft. tall, white-painted plywood pyramid, the work of fewer than a dozen Racine atheists. Ugh.
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
The major Republican candidates seem to be using a new stealth strategy for sneaking their placating of their Religious Right base into mainstream discourse.
Source: The Times
The saga of the teddy bear is really a story of a scapegoat and of cynical political manipulation... [...]
Source: atheistrevolution.blogspot.com
A line from one of the many Halloween specials I've seen over the years has stuck with me: the idea that Halloween was thought to be the day of the year when the barrier between the world of the living and the spirit world was thinnest and most permeable.
Source: The New York Times
Today the Christian conservative movement shows signs of coming apart beneath its leaders. It is not merely that none of the 2008 Republican front-runners come close to measuring up to President Bush in the eyes of the evangelical faithful.
Source: AlterNet.org
Some fundamentalist evangelicals have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about. Utopian fantasies have long transfixed the human race. Yet today a much rarer fantasy has become popular in the United States.
Turkish voters have strongly endorsed plans for constitutional changes that provide for the election of the president by popular vote. Partial results of Sunday's nationwide referendum showed that voters favour presidents to be elected directly by the people instead of being chos …
Source: The Times
A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campaign today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam. The provocative move reflects a growing rift between traditionalists and a younger generation raised on a diet of Dutch tolerance.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rudy Giuliani has angered some in the gay community for backing away from some of his pre-presidential commitments.
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As more information becomes available about the infiltration of the military by fundamentalist Christian groups via Pentagon approved proselytizing, worrisome issues regarding the long term aims of evangelizing the troops present themselves.
Source: Scholars and Rogues
The inspector general of the Department of Defense has released a report that finds high ranking Pentagon officers in violation of long standing military regulations for their participation in a recruiting and marketing video by the fundamentalist group Christian Embassy while in …
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Violence and behind-the-scenes persecution are contributing to a mass exodus of Christians from the Palestinian territories (July 30, 2007) – Arab Christians are leaving the Palestinian territories in droves due to discrimination and persecution from a Muslim-dominant polic …
Source: dneiwert.blogspot.com
The first thing to bear in mind about fundamentalists is that, in the darkest depths of their minds, almost all of them harbor deep, unspoken doubts about their belief system.
Source: Scholars & Rogues
As a country founded on the principle of majority rule, most of us have yet to accept that a small cabal of extremists infiltrated and wrested control of our government.
Source: ScienceBlogs
A 7-year old boy is traveling around the country, standing on street corners and preaching hellfire at passers-by (you can hear him in a recording, too). He's part of a caravan of Baptists making an expedition up to the land of the Yankees to tell us all we're going to hell.
Source: the Mail online
The committee that proposed Salman Rushdie for a knighthood failed to consider whether it would provoke a negative reaction from the Muslim world, it was claimed today.
Source: ScienceBlogs
Anti-Evolution E-Cards, good for a laugh, bad for the intellect!
Source: ipsnews.net
In recent appearances on two U.S. cable news networks, he was slinging and zinging -- the well-rehearsed pitchman for the Biblical "End Times" was dead certain that "Iran is going to have to be attacked" before 2008.
A Temple to Zeus is perfectly American. It's not only allowable, but would showcase that powerful liberty which Americans acknowledge: Religious freedom. Within every U.S. city, a citizen is entitled by First Amendment rights to select whatever house of worship he or she pleases.
Source: Canada.com
Its wizards and magic are fantasy fun for millions of children, but the Harry Potter franchise seems to have cast a darker spell over some religious groups.
Source: Salon.com
The Bush Wrecking Machine will continue for another 18 months, but we, the people, will recover. Fight the Fear!
Source: Salon.com
Pew released a new poll today regarding the political beliefs and attitudes of American Muslims and -- needless to say -- our right-wing warriors, within hours of its release, have exploded in shrieking alarm.