Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
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Scientology faces allegations of torture in Australia
After recently being done for fraud in France, the cult of Scientology faces another smack in Australia.
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Humour: Which religion is best for you?
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Atheists aren’t a categorically different or more elite species of thinker. We just reject certain natural psychological intuitions„ such as the feeling that there must be a purpose to suffering, as being untrustworthy gauges of the reality outside our heads.
Posted 2 years ago
The original bible now online: no resurrection, no forgiveness, more anti-semitism
If there were any more evidence needed that the whole idea of the bible as the word of god is flawed and arbitrary, look no further than the Codex Sinaiticus.
The Codex, preserved through 1500 years in a monastery, is now being digitised to be made available online for anyone’s perusal. As the oldest bible in existence, its differences from the modern version are bound to throw a few fundamentalists and evangelicals into fits of rolling on the floor and speaking in tongues.
Posted 2 years ago
I think it’s interesting that the Discovery Institute – which has long argued that intelligent design qualifies as science – seems to have given up the game and acknowledged that their concerns are religious after all. It’s equally interesting that the catalyst doesn’t seem to be someone like Richard Dawkins pushing atheism, but Francis Collins pushing Christianity.
Posted 2 years ago
Hulu pulls Family Guy episode. Was it Atheism or Star Trek?
This is not the first time Hulu has had to pull an episode of a show, but what’s interesting about this one is the reaction the action provoked.
The Family Guy episode in question deals with two sub-plots: Atheism, and Star Trek. Now, which of these two is likely to have caused the pull? My bet would be on simple copyright issues, as stated by Hulu themselves, but some suspect the foul hand of Christian Fundamentalism at work.
This seemingly paranoid reaction may have something to do with past experience: the show South Park has often been the target of religion-based calls for episodes to be banned, both with regards to Islam as well as the cult of Scientology (and no, Scientology is not a religion no matter what you say).
It therefore should come as no surprise that, despite the availability of other perfectly reasonable explanations, people would choose to single out religion as the likely cause of this small act of censorship. Life, it would seem, is not without a sense of irony.
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Elijah was actually a prophet mentioned in the Old Testament that some Jews believed would appear before the coming of the Messiah. Somehow over the centuries Elijah happened to get cast as an alcoholic ghost in this Passover ritual and now makes regular appearances in the American suburbs
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