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Axial Ageism

The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong.

Praying in Outer Space

Muslim astronauts must figure out how to face Mecca.

Thetans

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

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.

Misquoting Jesus

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

No Church on December 25th

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

Is God a Sexist Pig?

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

Fulla Comes With Her Own Prayer Mat

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

Expertise Isn't Democratic

Wikipedia the online web encyclopedia comes in for criticism.

Bury Lenin?

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

Get Rid of that Gideon Bible

University to forbid distribution of Christian scriptures on campus.

Fundamentalism: Is It a Genetic Defect?

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

Fake Muslim Holy Water

Bogus Zam Zam water fraud.

God Sued

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

What Does God Think About Sex?

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

The Ilkone

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

Rosslyn Chapel Decoded

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

Freeze Dried Dead

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

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.

Only Americans Have a God Gene?

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

Venezuela suspends missionary worker permits

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

Does Islam forbid atomic weapons?

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

Jews with non-Jewish partners in the same graveyard

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

Da Vinci Code causes art history boom

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

Does Jesus have X-ray vision?

Jesus Christ as popular as David Beckham.

Be patient!

Intelligent Design vs. Darwinian evolution.

Evolutionary theists

Some Christians accept evolutionary theory.

St. Augustine: founded medieval semiology

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

Taoist bun-scrambles

They climb the towers and fight over the buns.

666 RIP. Number of the beast is 616.

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

Man with green hair

Reports of a Merman in the Caspian Sea.

America is proud to be a secular state?

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

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.

Holy radio silence

40 minutes of silence on BBC radio.

Damnation will strike their families!

Muslim religious leaders attack the owners of public saunas.

No eye for eye, tooth for tooth

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

A god who has no interest in human affairs at all

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

The God Gene

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

Keep those bibles to a minimum

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

God gene

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

Sartorial blasphemy in India

Hindus angry at clothing that mocks Lord Ram.

The academic study of religion

Scholarly sociological, demographic studies of American religions

Halloween Sunday

Christians get angry that Halloween falls on a Sunday

Christian brawl at Jesus' tomb

Christians beat each other up at the Holy Sepulcher.

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.

Mexican priests jam cell phones

Mexican churches employ mobile telephone jamming systems

V.S. Naipaul: destroy the intolerant

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

Walt Disney and god

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

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

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

A Reason For Everything

A Reason For Everything reviewed

Tibetan monks go for the gold

Tibetan pilgrims being replaced by Chinese tourists in Tibet.

Does God do SMS?

Technology and piety meet in cell phone religion.

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.

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.

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.

Olympic athletes should abhor evil

Greek Orthodox Church prays against slothful Olympians.

Converting Muslims is profitable

Outsider missionaries seek to convert Muslims angering local Christians.

Bible: masturbation hard to resist

The Contemporary English Version Youth Bible

Soda pop fatwa

Soft drinks do not violate Islamic law.

Losing a Lost Tribe

Genetic research challenges the Mormon belief that the Lamanites - Native Americans are descendents of a Israelite patriarch Lehi.

Goodbye Protestants

Fewer Americans identify as Protestant or attend churchs in the Protestant denominations.

Does popular science pander?

Brian Greene, physicist as celebrity, popular science writing as pap.

Unholy toilet seat covers, finger puppets, lingerie

Toilet seat covers, boxes of tissues, shoes, sandals and finger puppets have all been tracked down bearing images of Lord Krishna, Ram, Saraswati and so on.

Voynich hoax

Voynichese: Edward Kelley may have concocted the document to defraud Rudolph II.

God is a product of brain disorder

Belief in god, religious faith caused by brain disorder called temporal lobe epilepsy.

NC judge must restore references to God

District Judge James M. Honeycutt had taken it upon himself to change courtroom procedures.

Widow's mite not good enough for vicar

I felt it was not right that guests at weddings should be giving far less than Sunday morning worshippers

Rabbi's ban on Hindu hair fails

Jewish orthodox code of modesty requires married women to cover their hair in public so they wear wigs.

Dead author continues writing

Remained a steady presence on bestseller lists

Doesn't it seem like the world is getting dumber with every passing year? Well, maybe it is!

Average IQ level will diminish during the 21st century

Christian ministers turn to cyber dating

Divinity schools are often likened to marriage factories

It doesn't take all that much to create a universe

Andrei Linde theory of chaotic inflation

America's founding fathers

America's founding fathers were freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists who did not accept the divinity of Jesus Christ.

An Argument for Tax Reform Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics

Christian Fundamentalists are too greedy to let taxes feed and care for the poor

The Church of Craft

A church based on knitting and handicrafts

Utah is absurd

Many sane people will not work or do business in Utah, an overly pious and very homophobic state

Church as dominatrix

The Roman Catholic Church is the celibate priest's dominatrix

Most Washingtonians still praying

Religious faith still alive in Washington State

Easter Bunny is pagan

Easter Bunny and marshmellow candy chicks aren't Christian

Jerry Falwell and the dildo

Christians beware evil site called Jesus Loves Porn. You will do to Hell if you visit it like Dr. Falwell

Dr. Gene Scott redux

Imagine you have a crazy roommate who is addicted to watching Doctor Gene Scott on satellite TV

American teenagers more religious

Religious faith reduces the level of cortisol making godly teenagers happier

Philoflagellationism & Conservative Catholics

Gary Wills on Gibson's Passion of Christ, conservative Catholicism and the pope's abuse of power

Catholic Traditionalists

Catholic Traditionalist movement rejects Vatican II, often associated with anti-Semitism

Marketing mainline Christianity

Mainstream churches experiment with television advertising

The Transformation of American Religion

The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith by Alan Wolfe

Vatican: atheism is masculine

Vatican Pontifical Council says atheists are usually men, atheism is fading

Catholic charities must offer birth control

Insurance plans for workers on Roman Catholic Chartities in California must include birth control

Gibson claims that the Holy Ghost spoke through him

The Passion Of The Christ reviewed by Christopher Hitchens

God & the city: Indian Hindu youth

21st century Hindu youth expect their god to be easy to deal with and friendly. Indian religious life

Jezis

Czech Republic citizens watch Jezis a movie about Jesus Christ instead of Mel Gibson's The Passion

End government sponsored Catholic schools

Scottish MPs call for end to government funding of Roman Catholic schools

Jesus, Christians & American movies

Protests by Christians against movies featuring Jesus

Internet dating is ungodly

Christian singles, men and women are using the internet to find other Christians to date

Godly America, Godless Europe?

American and European religiosity, religious faith compared

Bible translation battles

Bible translations: Revised Standard, King James, New King James, Today's New International Version

Grab a parachute if you don't love Jesus

Christian pilot makes a pest of himself

Tried to subpoena Jesus

Texas killer: is a fake or crazy?

Sexist buddhists

Sexism and buddhism

There's a Gumbylike quality to Jesus in the United States

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon by Stephen Prothero

God & the European Union

Will the European Union constitution contain reference to some silly god

Simple explanations for simple minds

Laws of physics too subtle for intelligent design movement

Buddhists against the pledge

Buddhists do not believe in a creator god and oppose the Pledge of Allegiance

Salvation inflation

Silliness of American Christianity

American Jesus

Popular Christology studied in American Jesus by Stephen Prothero

When the promise of eternal bliss isn't enough

Church desperate for attendees, members

Aussie Christianity in decline

Australians moving away from the Christian Church and it is about time

Poll: Women more religious

Are women more gullible than men

Church attendance reduces economic growth

Religion causes economic decline, belief in hell spurs the economy

Christmas celebrates . . .

Almost a third of Dutch nationals do not know why Christmas is celebrated

No Ashcroft St.

Assemblies of God headquarters won't be on John Ashcroft Street

God & The Lord of the Rings

Gay atheists, Sir Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings

Collective opinions of religion are inflexible dogma

Religion, religious dogma: the enemies of intelligent opinion

Faith-based prisons

Faith based prisons

Christian love: love thy belly

Gluttonous church members let starving man die

Bethlehem miracle baby

Palestinian miracle baby. Will there be talk of him being a messiah or anti-Christ?

Locke v. Davey

Locke vs Joshua Davey theology student at the Supreme Court

From missionary position to missionary zeal

Cosmopolitian Magazine - the Cosmo girl goes searching for god

Religion: None

Nones: Americans who claim no affliation with organized religion, religious denominations none

Religious & anti-religious bigotry

Perennial debates about church-state entanglement

The economic value of Hell

People who think they might go to Hell, work harder, what stupid saps

Fate Magazine

A true test of Gullibility is being a reader of trashy, silly Fate magazine.

Clergy Leadership Network

Liberal Christians form Clergy Leadership Network to battle conservative Christian Fundamentalist politics

Elderly woman threatens to sacrifice mayor

Santeria animal sacrifice causes woman to threaten human sacrifice of mayor, priest

Why God created witchcraft

Witchcraft exists to keep life entertaining and amusing

Larry King panders to the gullible

CNN's Larry King produces junk science and pseudoscience programs

Here nobody, it seems, can afford not to pray

Lagos Ibadan expressway, religion, god and superstition in Nigeria and Brazil

Mrs. Jesus

Was Mary Magdalene Mrs. Jesus Christ and did Leonardo Da Vinci know? No, what nonsense. But Jesus is looking for girls for dates.

What is really scary about Halloween

Christians who hate Halloween.

Have an unholy Halloween

Silly Christian funamenalists think Halloween is about satan and the devil.

Kindergarten crucifix ban

Italian court orders crucifixes removed from state kindergarten

Scottish Cardinal soft on clerical celibacy

Married priests a possibility says Most Rev Keith O'Brien

We ate everything but his boots

Cannibals did eat one Christian missionary

Disturbed by religion indeed

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, GA.

Superstition as a weapon

American government used superstition in military operations.

Become an online minister today!

How to become an online minister, preacher, reverend

Hooray for Norway

Norwegians least religious Europeans

Baptist Bishops

Baptist preachers who take the title Bishop

ET and God

Would earthly religion survive the discovery of extraterrestrial life in the universe?

Instant Sainthood

John Paul II is in a hurry to create new saints.

The Transformation of American Religion

The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith; Alan Wolfe

XXX Christian site

Deceptive church website: no porn at xxxchurch.com

Revolve: glitzy teenybopper Bible

Revolve a fifth-and-a-half-grade reading level fashion mag style bible created by Laurie Whaley

Presbyterian Jews?

Presbyterians attempt to convert Jews to Jesus loving Christians

Anti-superstition Act

Maharashtra government’s social justice department forwarded the ‘Jadu Tona and Tatsam Andhashraddha Virodhi’ (Anti-Superstition)

Great Falls SC vs. the witch

Wicca High Priestess Darla Wynne

Legitimizing voodoo

Recognized religion. Voodoo priests — houngans

2003 religion poll

2003 poll of American religious beliefs

The Politics Of Christianity

Gospel of Thomas: Christians invoking terms such as "evil-doers" read the bible, as anyone does, selectively. They choose the parts they like and they leave out the parts they don't.

The last Shakers

End of Shaker sect

The bible is back at the Grand Canyon

Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary

The Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to hell

Was only a middling Catholic and going straight to hell

Vegan dating

Online dating for vegetarians and vegans.

Imported Christians

About 66% of New U.S. Arrivals Are Christian

It's got too much Jesus in it

it's got too much Jesus in it

Followers believed he was God

Many believed that famous black preacher Father Divine was god.

Big Brother's Nush' sinister guru

Big Brother's Nush was under the influence of a sinister 'guru'

Are you gullible?

Just how gullible are you? Gullibility tests & quizzes from the web.

Python Boy

Cambodians flocking to see son of a dragon Python Boy

Hermeneutics was politics

James Wood, Christopher Hitchens and Jonathan Yardley review: God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson

Yuko Chino: she hated people

Yuko Chino cult leader, weirdo, hated people.

Creationists peculiarly American

Creationism is strictly an American bit of nuttiness.

Maybe God liked the sex toys

Prudish Christian who closed his sex toy store.

Feeling sorry for God

Feeling sorry for God

The Miracles of Exodus

Scientist Defends Book The Miracles of Exodus

Encyclopedia of Stupidity

The Encyclopedia of Stupidity, by Matthijs van Boxsel, trans. Arnold & Erica Pomerans

Pennsylvania Paranormal Conference

Pennsylvania Paranormal Conference: morons united.

Left by Her Husband, Hurt by Her Church

Efrain Lopez Returned to the Priesthood in 1992, Leaving His Wife of 20 Years $60,000 in Debt

Potential investors held hands, prayed

Religious scam

The minute (WorldCom) filed for Chapter 11, I knew these were going to be hot items

It is a three-and-a-half-inch-long winged insect

I had no intention of doing something fancy, said Olson, who plans on getting a mohawk haircut for his 60th birthday. I just made circles.

Another slice of the natural philosophy of the masses

Federal authorities not amused by attempt at humor

War on Terrorism Will Have an Affect on Car Colors

Biblical Plaque Popular Backdrop at Weddings

Vocations: Once seen as dying out, monasteries are renovating or expanding their facilities to accommodate a surge in new members