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‘The Census Campaign’ has been launched today by the British Humanist Association (BHA), calling on people who are not religious, including atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and ‘cultural Christians’, to be counted and included in the 2011 Census by ticking the ‘No religion’ response box.

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Prayer Not Too Important In Church Marketing Strategies

When a church marketing company says they’ll take money to give advice to churches, prayer isn’t something they offer very often as a means of success.

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Okay, humans… It’s one thing to assert the tired old canard that, because science can’t explain something, a god must be used to explain it. It’s quite another to go on to claim that one particular patriarchal Hebrew sky god is responsible for the phenomenon in question. And it’s still yet another thing to further [...]

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The BHA has urged the government to listen to senior Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors who have attacked the introduction of ‘free schools’, raising concerns that they could create ethnic or religious enclaves and undermine community cohesion.

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Gnu Atheist Questions

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Gnu Atheist Questions

The factually challenged wingnuts over at the  Discovery Institute have asked the scary new atheist movement some questions. I’ll do my best to answer them, but if the courtier’s reply applies, I’m going to use it. I’m an engineer, damnit, not a doctor of philosophy. 1) Why is there anything? One of the defining principles of [...]

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Gnu Atheist Questions

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Gnu Atheist Questions

The factually challenged wingnuts over at the  Discovery Institute have asked the scary new atheist movement some questions. I’ll do my best to answer them, but if the courtier’s reply applies, I’m going to use it. I’m an engineer, damnit, not a doctor of philosophy. 1) Why is there anything? One of the defining principles of [...]

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Christine O’Donnell Supporter Offers $1,000 Reward – and Claims That Teaching Evolution is Teaching Superstition

Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who once worked with Judicial Watch and now an avid Tea Party supporter of Christine O'Donnell is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who can find the exact phrase, "separation of church and state," in the U.S. Constitution. In his press release, Moseley writes: In a US Senate debate Oct. 19, [...]

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Christine O’Donnell Supporter Offers $1,000 Reward – and Claims That Teaching Evolution is Teaching Superstition

Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who once worked with Judicial Watch and now an avid Tea Party supporter of Christine O'Donnell is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who can find the exact phrase, "separation of church and state," in the U.S. Constitution. In his press release, Moseley writes: In a US Senate debate Oct. 19, [...]

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Woman Throws Sons Off Overpass to Save Them From Satan

A Dallas, Texas woman who felt that God told her to throw her sons off of a 20-foot overpass to protect them from Satan was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Fox News reports. After throwing her 6 and 8 year old sons off of the freeway overpass, she jumped. The children survived and [...]

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Woman Throws Sons Off Overpass to Save Them From Satan

A Dallas, Texas woman who felt that God told her to throw her sons off of a 20-foot overpass to protect them from Satan was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Fox News reports. After throwing her 6 and 8 year old sons off of the freeway overpass, she jumped. The children survived and [...]

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