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Religion: Controlling internet domains, one prayer at a time

03.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I don’t know if you were aware of these shenanigans, but apparently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering the allowance of domains that end in ‘.christian’, ‘.muslim’, ‘.hindu’, ‘.jew’, etc… And, according to this story at the Web Newswire, Hindu religious leader Rajan Zed is throwing a hissy-fit, saying that [...]

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Do religious surveys mirror the surveyor?

03.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

When I think ‘religious survey’ I think ‘agenda’. Call me cynical, but for the most part these surveys are being churned out by explicitly religious institutions, or worse, institutions which claim objectivity yet are run by devoutly religious people (Gallup, Barna Group, etc…).
Well, it just so happens that Nathan Schneider of Religion Dispatches has a [...]

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New member of the atheist blogroll

03.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Moneduloides has been added to The Atheist Blogroll. You can see the blogroll in my sidebar. The Atheist blogroll is a community building service provided free of charge to Atheist bloggers from around the world. If you would like to join, visit Mojoey at Deep Thoughts for more information.

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£1 Million Templeton Prize for failed arguments goes to Bernard d’Espagnat

03.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

D’Espagnat, who won the $1.42 million prize, “the world’s richest annual prize given to an individual” according to the AP, for arguing that science cannot fully explain “the nature of being,” is a french physicist and philosopher of science.
The 87-year-old d’Espagnat played a key role from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s in the [...]

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Unrest in Madagascar: Opposition promises a religion-free government

03.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Over the past weeks there has been increasing civil unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar; and, from what the most recent reports are stating, the opposition is promising a religion-free government.
According to reports from The Guardian, the struggle began back in January when the mayor of the nation’s capital Antananarivo, 34-year-old Andry [...]

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Your weekly dose of dumbass: ‘Evolution is a fairytale created by grownups’

03.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Darwin may have been a keen observer, but he only explained the survival of species, not the arrival of species. The full title of his book is “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” Who are we to believe are the [...]

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Jesus and Mo on the U.N.

03.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

In reference to this story.

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9/11, FOX and the ARIS poll: A promising future for atheism

03.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I feel like I’m in bizarro world today – I have actually learned something from FOX news *gasp*. And, while their interpretation of the facts is ass-backwards (Not surprising), I have to commend FOX’s religion correspondent Lauren Green for giving me the heads up. Hopefully you have some idea as to what Green is referring [...]

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Science-based medicine under attack: Anesthesiologist fakes 12 years of data

03.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I might as well come out and say it: I am completely opposed to the funding of scientific research, particularly medical research, by private corporations. There you have it. I am working on a lengthy post for a later date on the topic, but if you find the prospect so disagreeable that you can’t continue [...]

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Are crosses symbols of secularism?

03.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Despite the obvious ridiculousness of the question, it is being seriously debated in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the Texas-based American Atheists are fighting the use of massive (12-foot-high) crosses placed along the side of state highways as memorials for officers killed in duty. According to the Utah Assistant Attorney General Thom [...]

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