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Court upholds Scientology fraud ruling in France

By Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
The Irish Times
February 3, 2012

A French appeals court has upheld fraud charges and a €600,000 fine against the Church of Scientology for cajoling followers into paying large sums for bogus personality tests and cures.


Bath Christian group’s ‘God can heal’ adverts banned

BBC News
BBC News
February 3, 2012

A Christian group has been banned from claiming that God can heal illnesses on its website and in leaflets.


January 28
Pennsylvania bible resolution is ‘sinfully’ unconstitutional
Freedom From Religion Foundation
By Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor
January 15
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Hosannas for the Court

Wall Street Journal editors
Wall Street Journal
January 11, 2012

WSJ op-ed celebrating the Supreme Court’s ruling that religious organizations should be partially exempted from laws banning discrimination in employment.


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December 14
Philosopher Sticks Up for God
New York Times
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
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December 11
Americans: Undecided About God?
New York Times
By ERIC WEINER
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November 8
The God Test: Why Everyone Believes
The Huffington Post
By Rabbi Adam Jacobs
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Christopher Hitchens dies; Vanity Fair writer was a religious skeptic, master of the contrarian essa

By Matt Schudel
Washington Post
December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted provocateur who used his formidable learning, biting wit and muscular prose style to skewer what he considered high-placed hypocrites, craven lackeys of the right and left, “Islamic fascists” and religious faith of any kind, died Thursday from esophageal cancer.


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Faith no more
New Statesman
Andrew Zak Williams
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