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Education White Paper: more state-funded ‘faith’ schools, and compulsory worship and Religious Education remain unreformed

November 24, 2010 No Comment

The BHA has expressed severe concern about the silence within the Government’s White Paper on the future within the compulsory curriculum subject of Religious Education (RE), on the future of compulsory religious worship in all schools, and on the failure of the White Paper to engage with the widely-shared concerns of the British public over an increase in the number of state-funded ‘faith’ schools.

Christian Dominionism Watch: Canadians to Unite for Dominion

November 24, 2010 Comments Off

Calling themselves a "prophetic cluster," Canadians will gather in Calgary this January to "Unite for Dominion." According to Dick and Joan Deweert of Southside Victory Church, "There's a fresh wind blowing" and God is releasing a "corporate annointing and sense of revelation." Joan Deweert claims that "It is time in Canada to unite for [...]

Majority of Americans Believe that God Has ‘Special Role for the U.S.’

November 24, 2010 Comments Off

According to a survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution, religion did not drive Americans to vote in the mid-term elections, but at the same time, the majority of those polled said that President Obama's religion did not match their own, leading them to have a negative view of him. The [...]

Christian News Group Claims That Public Schools Force Radical Islam on Students

November 24, 2010 Comments Off

In one of its last actions for the year 2010, the Texas State Board of Education passed a resolution that would "restrict textbooks that promote a "pro-Islamic, anti-Christian" point of view." The kind of thinking behind the Texas Board's resolution was promoted yesterday at the American Family Association's filtered news service called One News Now [...]

It’s time to get off the “Telephone”

November 24, 2010 8 Comments

Using the child’s game “Telephone” to debunk the Bible, or any religious text, is inaccurate and not worth the effort. There are other tools and methods that do the trick just fine.

Dick’s Sporting Goods caves to American Family Association bullying

November 23, 2010 5 Comments

The American Family Association is all over the news this week. Their “War on Christmas” has shown successes, as their latest boycott threat brings Dick’s Sporting Goods to its knees . . . yet they’ve also been declared a hate group.

Fox News Says Heaven is Real. Evidence: a Little Boy’s Hallucination.

November 22, 2010 Comments Off

Most hilarious line: “So many people want to know what you now know…” Come on, people. Is this how you want our generation to be remembered? In thousands of years, when future generations unearth our culture, do you really want them to say, “Wow! Look at this. These people actually thought that one little boy’s [...]

BHA comments on ‘Interfaith Week’ 2010

November 22, 2010 No Comment

As the government-funded ‘Interfaith Week 2010’ begins, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has called for government approaches to community engagement to be inclusive of all, regardless of religion or belief.