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Good Without God Billboard Removed from Columbus… After Church Objects
The Freedom From Religion Foundation got all the details right when it posted a billboard featuring the friendly face of Dylan Galos in Columbus, Ohio. The billboard, which featured the words “I can be...
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Buddy Roemer And The Church Secrets Of The Republican Party
When former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer declared his intention to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, he told his audience, “I’ve always been a churchgoing Methodist boy from a...
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No-tax ultrawealthy megachurch Rick Warren writes: the Poor pay too little in...
When conservative preacher Rick Warren raked in $2.4 million last December for his “Saddleback Church” (an archipelago of high-tech churches, gymnasium courts, restaurants and even a music school...
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Biggest UU Congregation Reflects UUA Christian Dominance
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been conducting a survey of diversity within Unitarian Universalist congregations that ranges from the very local (a bookshelf) to the very general (the Unitarian...
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Quincy and Charleston Unitarian Universalists Continue Pattern Of Christian...
A month ago, I looked at a library of religious books in a Unitarian Universalist congregation, and I realized that what I was seeing wasn’t in accord with the promises that Unitarian Universalism...
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And When I Say God, I Mean Me
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church asks you to give to God (c/o Prince of Peace Lutheran Church) Does God, the almighty omnipotent ruler of the entire universe, really need you to do things for him? Of...
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A Vatican Of Bad Fish
Ten days ago, I wondered what could be the real explanation for Joseph Ratzinger deciding to become the first Catholic Pope in over 600 years to resign rather than die in office. Given that his...
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If God Works, How Come Mothers Only Have Two Hands?
I saw this sign yesterday while travelling through South Somerville, Maine. If this were a valid ding against the scientific theory of evolution — which doesn’t claim that evolutionary pressures create...
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Why Would Atheists Engage In Christian Ritual?
Once the Associated Press takes hold of a story, it gets ripped off the wires and republished all over the world. That’s what’s happened this week to a story written by AP reporter Gillian Flaccus...
View ArticleUnrepresentative Military Chaplaincy: Is This a Problem?
Last night, the Secular Coalition for America sent us the following statistics as part of its call for an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to provide for the hiring of nontheistic...
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Stories Ending in Tragedy
A church I drive by in Somerville, Maine frequently amuses me with its messages of dire religiosity. Here’s the latest: That got me to thinking… Could be true.
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News item: A gas explosion destroys a church in New York City, killing five out of its sixty members and three others. Fifty-five families are left homeless. Says a parishoner of the event: ““I thank...
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If We Came From Apes, Then Come And Answer This Question, Smartypants!
The Seneca Bible Baptist Church, outside of Seneca Falls in upstate New York, has issued a challenge to all the secular eggheads in the area, their neighbors who actually believe in the theory of...
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Statistics Show Biblical Literalists Sin Against Their Religion Every Time...
Not every Christian is a Biblical literalist, but among the many forms of Christianity, Biblical literalism has a disproportionately loud voice, shouting that its harsh, unforgiving agenda must be...
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Charisma News Advocates Putting Corpses On Trial
“We must recover America’s Christian heritage,” writes Charisma News, a web site that purports to report the news from a Christian perspective. What might that Christian heritage be, though? The word...
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He is Risen, Indeed?
Help me understand this reasoning of this sign, which surely hopes to accomplish something as it’s read on the street. I just can’t figure out what. What does this declaration communicate to someone...
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Jesus Cares? Help is Just a Prayer Away?
That’s what roadside church signs tell me on my drive through central Maine today: There are a lot of good people suffering in the world. Jesus (and God the Father of whom Jesus is supposed to be one...
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Giving is Sowing and God Promises a Harvest? (What Kind of Harvest?)
The promise that “Giving is Sowing and God Promises a Harvest!” met me on my way to work this morning, and it got me to thinking. My first thought was of the so-called “Prosperity Gospel,” which asks...
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“Religious Beliefs Aren’t Reasonable!”— Justice Antonin Scalia, October 7 2014
“Religious beliefs aren’t reasonable!” So said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on October 7, 2014 — and he said it as if this was a compliment. Really, I’m not kidding. You can listen to Justice...
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Why Should We Let Church Change The Way We Talk About Sex?
Charisma News, a web site of opinion from Christian activists, recently featured an article under the headline, “Why the Church Needs to Change the Way We Talk About Sex”. The article asks, “Could you...
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