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Arabs campaign for women to "Take off the Veil"
"A group of Arabic websites and blogs have launched an international campaign against the Muslim headscarf (hijab), arguing the move is a response to what they see as “intellectual terrorism” practiced...
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The Intolerant Tolerance
The headline refers to a particular Norwegian debate, but it is fairly relevant to the Atheist movement. I wrote a blog post about in Norwegian, but here's one for the international market! A common...
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The things that offend armchair critics
"Fellow bloggers,The writer at the Armchair Critic blog says that I should be shot for compiling the list of things that offend Muslims, and goes on to compare me to a terrorist.Here's the Link.Here's...
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Conservative Protestants' Religious Beliefs Contribute to Their Low Wealth,...
"Duke Sociology Professor Lisa A. Keister examines how religion affects the wealth of believers [...]The study examines why conservative Protestants are dramatically overrepresented at the bottom of...
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Fundamentalists of all stripes want to turn back the clock
"Despite all their theological and cultural differences, fundamentalists of every faith share at least one common characteristic: resistance to modernity. That’s the assessment of scholars and...
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A review of the Organisation of Islamic Countries report on Islamophobia
"Islamophobia exists but the OIC report is the wrong way of going about it. A phobia is a strong irrational or powerful fear and dislikes of something, in this case, the religion of Islam.[...]Looking...
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Anglo-Saxon attitudes
The March 29th issue of The Economist had some interesting charts showing how Britons and Americans differ on several issues:It's not surprising how many believes in God and Hell and attitudes to...
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62% Long Island Catholics without religious moral guidance
"As Pope Benedict XVI's visit to New York and Washington, D.C., approaches, a Newsday poll has found that Long Island Catholics view religion and prayer as critical parts of their lives, though they...
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American Atheists and Agnostics divorce rate below average
"In addition to finding that four out of every five adults (78%) have been married at least once, the Barna study revealed that an even higher proportion of born again Christians (84%) tie the knot....
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German Church used Nazi forced labor during WW2
"The German bishops' conference has released an exhaustive study of the use of forced labor by Catholic institutions under the Nazi regime.Nearly 6,000 people, including conscripted laborers and...
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Bible Tops America's 10 Favorite Books of All Time
"The results may come as no surprise considering statistics that reflect how plentiful Bibles are in the nation. An estimated 92 percent of Americans own a Bible and the average household owns three, a...
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Muslim sex offenders may opt out of treatment
"Muslim sex offenders may be allowed to opt out of a prison treatment programme because it is against their religion, it has emerged. The Prison Service's Muslim advisor has said there is a "legitimate...
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Only 38% of Britons believe in God
"To start with, we discover that only 38% of British respondents to a Eurobarometer Survey said they believed in God. Other figures then give an indication of just how confused the nation is about...
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Canadian Muslims condemn UN defamation of religion decision
"The Muslim Canadian Congress has expressed shock and disappointment at the move by Islamic countries to bulldoze the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) into approving a resolution...
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Most U.S. Christians Back Israel Out of 'Biblical Obligation'
"Though figures released this week by the Joshua Fund differed among Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals and non-Evangelicals, the new figures confirmed that American Christians as a whole believed...
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Churches crumble in France
"Some communities have dynamited churches deemed too expensive to maintain. Others have taken a less radical approach, selling them as housing. In traditionally Roman Catholic France, fewer than 5...
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The necessity of combating relativism
"In saying this, we must note that atheists are not immune from unreasoned dogma. Religion is not the only place where one can go to find doctrines that promote death and human suffering. Europe,...
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Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions
"Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions [...] Shared misconceptions:Everything is an adaptation produced by natural selectionNatural selection is the only means of evolutionNatural selection leads to...
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Religion is ‘the new social evil’
"A CHARITY set up by an ardent Christian to fight slavery and the opium trade has identified a new social evil of the 21st century - religion. A poll by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation uncovered a...
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Øystein Elgarøy - the Christian defender who became an Atheist
I came across an interesting deconversion story in the Norwegian Fri Tanke magazine( for Norwegian humanists). I briefly translated a short quote from it and posted it at the Richard Dawkins-forum, and...
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