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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 [...]
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 [...]
Obama’s religious fervor: The politics of stupidity
03.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

First there was that Jesus-laden invocation by conservative Pastor Rick Warren at the inauguration. Then, an executive order that, rather than doing anything to dismantle Bush’s faith-based initiatives, bolstered them with a new “advisory council on faith.” And then, last month, U.S. News and World Report published an article with the following announcement as its [...]