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Axial Ageism

The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong.

May 25, 2006

Praying in Outer Space

Muslim astronauts must figure out how to face Mecca.

April 26, 2006

Thetans

A reporter examines the religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard.

April 20, 2006

The Church of Stop Shopping

Rev. Billy Talen's religion against American consumer credit card debt.

Jesus Went Ice Skating?

Paleoclimatologists say it was cooler in gospel times and Christ didn't walk on water.

April 5, 2006

Misquoting Jesus

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman.

December 28, 2005

No Church on December 25th

Churches close when Christmas falls on a Sunday. Why bother with God when there is Santa Claus?

December 17, 2005

Is God a Sexist Pig?

God on trial as bad employer and for sexual harassment of clergy.

December 11, 2005

Fulla Comes With Her Own Prayer Mat

Islamic doll is a marketing success in the middle east and throughout the Muslim World.

November 25, 2005

Expertise Isn't Democratic

Wikipedia the online web encyclopedia comes in for criticism.

October 25, 2005

Bury Lenin?

Lenin's tomb is a Russian tourist attraction: should the dead communist be put in a new grave?

October 23, 2005

Get Rid of that Gideon Bible

University to forbid distribution of Christian scriptures on campus.

October 22, 2005

Fundamentalism: Is It a Genetic Defect?

The Story of God: is religious belief an accident of human evolution, a Darwinian quirk?

October 19, 2005

Fake Muslim Holy Water

Bogus Zam Zam water fraud.

October 18, 2005

God Sued

Almighty Deity sued because he could not protect man from Satan.

October 17, 2005

What Does God Think About Sex?

Christianity: is it an anti-sexual religion, homophobic, repressive?

October 7, 2005

The Ilkone

It might be useful for someone at home or traveling, but not at the mosque.

October 6, 2005

Rosslyn Chapel Decoded

The Da Vinci Code's mystery cubes hide nothing more than a medieval nursery rhyme.

October 1, 2005

Freeze Dried Dead

Human corpses used as compost or fertilizer for trees and plants.

September 28, 2005

Where Others Wavered

Preacher punished for appearing in Hollywood movie.

Children of Menashe

Lost tribes of Ancient Israel found in Afghanistan, Indian, Tibet and China.

September 26, 2005

Only Americans Have a God Gene?

If faith is genetic then why don't Europeans believe in God?

September 20, 2005

Venezuela suspends missionary worker permits

An effect of Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez.

September 2, 2005

Does Islam forbid atomic weapons?

Can a Muslim use a nuclear bomb? Is it forbidden by the Prophet or the Koran?

September 1, 2005

Jews with non-Jewish partners in the same graveyard

Chevra kadisha gets around halacha law in Jewish cemetaries for burial of interfaith couples.

August 30, 2005

Da Vinci Code causes art history boom

Dan Brown’s many errors of fact, faulty interpretation, lack of history.

June 27, 2005

Does Jesus have X-ray vision?

Jesus Christ as popular as David Beckham.

Be patient!

Intelligent Design vs. Darwinian evolution.

May 30, 2005

Evolutionary theists

Some Christians accept evolutionary theory.

St. Augustine: founded medieval semiology

Christopher Hitchens review of a cultural studies, critical theory anthology.

May 22, 2005

Taoist bun-scrambles

They climb the towers and fight over the buns.

May 16, 2005

666 RIP. Number of the beast is 616.

Biblical archaeology at Oxyrhynchus reveals that the true number of the beast is 616.

May 7, 2005

Man with green hair

Reports of a Merman in the Caspian Sea.

April 29, 2005

America is proud to be a secular state?

9th American Studies Conference inaugurated at Quaid-e-Azam University

April 27, 2005

The Da Vinci Code plagarized from The Da Vinci Legacy?

Lewis Perdue says Dan Brown swiped much of The Da Vinci Code form his prior novel The Da Vinci Legacy.

April 26, 2005

Holy radio silence

40 minutes of silence on BBC radio.

April 24, 2005

Damnation will strike their families!

Muslim religious leaders attack the owners of public saunas.

April 6, 2005

No eye for eye, tooth for tooth

Jurors who consulted Leviticus 24:20 - eye for eye, tooth for tooth - rebuffed by Colorado Supreme Court.

March 28, 2005

A god who has no interest in human affairs at all

Anthony Flew says the Christian idea of the afterlife is monstrous.

March 24, 2005

The God Gene

Is belief inPentecostalism, in astrology or pyramids rooted in DNA?

February 17, 2005

Keep those bibles to a minimum

Christmas gifts you can't give military personnel in Iraqi.

December 2, 2004

God gene

Does religious faith come from a person's genetic makeup?

November 14, 2004

Sartorial blasphemy in India

Hindus angry at clothing that mocks Lord Ram.

October 27, 2004

The academic study of religion

Scholarly sociological, demographic studies of American religions

October 26, 2004

Halloween Sunday

Christians get angry that Halloween falls on a Sunday

October 6, 2004

Christian brawl at Jesus' tomb

Christians beat each other up at the Holy Sepulcher.

September 29, 2004

Get Jesus on that credit card!

Paul Crouch's Trinity Broadcasting Network is just another example of the American prosperty gospel scam popular with TV preachers.

September 28, 2004

Mexican priests jam cell phones

Mexican churches employ mobile telephone jamming systems

September 23, 2004

V.S. Naipaul: destroy the intolerant

V.S. Naipauls solution to religious wars: destroy those that start them.

September 14, 2004

Walt Disney and god

The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust by Mark I. Pinsky

September 11, 2004

Thou shalt not ... er ... something ...

Few in England know the 10 commandments. Church of England gets ever smaller.

September 10, 2004

A Reason For Everything

A Reason For Everything reviewed

September 6, 2004

Tibetan monks go for the gold

Tibetan pilgrims being replaced by Chinese tourists in Tibet.

September 1, 2004

Does God do SMS?

Technology and piety meet in cell phone religion.

August 22, 2004

Olympics are sacrilegious

Greek Orthodox clergy and followers of Hellenistic religion find the Athens Olympics offensive and sacrilegious.

Wiccans in the military

Wiccans in the US Armed services seek tolerance and emblem.

August 19, 2004

International Association for Divine Taxonomy

San Francisco conceptual artist Jonathon Keats announces a major simultaneous breakthrough in the fields of science and religion.

Worshipping via world wide web

Churches move online, internet worship services.

August 18, 2004

Good as new is quite bad

Frivolous, loose Bible translations.

Canada & America are like fire & ice

America is more theologically driven and paternalistic than Canada.

August 14, 2004

Olympic athletes should abhor evil

Greek Orthodox Church prays against slothful Olympians.

August 11, 2004

Converting Muslims is profitable

Outsider missionaries seek to convert Muslims angering local Christians.

August 9, 2004