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Guess Where Newt Gingrich Premiered His Movie About America’s “Godly Heritage”?

It’s bad enough that the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. is engraving “In God We Trust” in a prominent place. (FFRF is suing, but they’ve had no success yet.)

Guess how conservatives…

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Muslims Conduct a Day of Prayer in Washington

On Friday, about 3,000 Muslims showed up in Washington to pray in front of the U.S. Capitol:

“America is not perfect,” Abdul Malik, an organizer of the event called Islam on Capitol…

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The Case for a Creator: In the Beginning

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 5
The second premise of the kalam cosmological argument is that the universe began to exist. In discussing this premise, William Lane Craig asks the question of…

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The Funk of it All

I put the phone back on the receiver with a hesitant click. Did I really almost end the message with “In Jesus’ name, amen?” Could I seriously be praying too much?

Glancing to the other…

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Creation Movie Finds U.S. Distributor

After a bit of controversy, the Creation movie starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly has a U.S. distributor!

Indie distributor Newmarket is back on the acquisitions scene, picking up…

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Saudi Arabian University Promotes Gender Equality

I teach math and I work with a lot of students who struggle with it… Especially in Geometry, when they have to do proofs.

But when students complete their first *really* basic proof on their own,…

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Exorcised Gay Teen Speaks to Tyra Banks

Remember this video?

That was Manifested Glory Ministries (in Bridgeport, CT) trying to rid a teenager of The Gay. The video made the rounds several months ago.

Well, the…

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The Friday Night Chicago Party!

As I mentioned before, there’s a party on Friday in Chicago for anyone who’d like to attend! It’s at Howl at the Moon, a dueling piano bar.

All the details are here, but here are the…

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Creationist Essay Contest… Who’s Entering?

A couple years ago, Marcus Ross received his Ph.D. in paleontology from the University of Rhode Island. His dissertation was “impeccable,” according to his advisor.

The topic: “the abundance and…

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Political Ramifications Due to the Rise of the Nones

Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report writes about what he thinks will happen in the future as the number of non-theists begins to rise.

They are obvious, but this is an interesting…

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Places of Peace and Energy That Rejuvinates

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The other day I had meetings out of the office in different towns; I spent a good portion of the day traveling from one meeting to another. Normally most of my meetings are conducted…

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The Religious Right Vision of Marriage

Christian conservatives always talk about “defending traditional marriage” - which has that warm, homey, fresh-baked-apple-pie feeling to it - but never make it clear precisely what they’re…

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A caveman could figure it out (The Gog Monologues)

In talking with my wife once about my reasons for deconversion, I set forth some very simple logic about why BibleGod could not be real. I basically said, “If the God of the Bible or…

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ARIS’s ‘American Nones’ and Politics

There are a few interesting thoughts to take from the new ARIS study on American “Nones” (people who aren’t affiliated with a particular religion*). PZ Myers raised a point, and Hemant is…

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A Pathetic Response to FFRF’s Memphis Challenge

Marilyn Loeffel of the Memphis Commercial Appeal doesn’t like the fact that the Freedom From Religion Foundation is trying to stop the Memphis City Council from opening sessions with prayer.

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