Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for the similarities between religions. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question…

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A Pew survey finds that atheists and agnostics in America are more knowledgeable about religions than religious people.

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The pope’s attack on atheists and secularists was disgraceful and redolent of the sound of stones hurled within a glass house.

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Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, courts hate, threats, and financial ruin to fight Christian supremacists in the U.S. armed forces.

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The arrest of Christian extremists in the Midwest shows that the US has more to worry about than simply homegrown jihadists.

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During the “Protest the Pope” rally in London on Sep. 18, 2010, Richard Dawkins condemned Pope Ratzinger for wrongly calling Hitler an atheist and blaming the Holocaust on atheism.

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Plotting religiosity vs. per capital GDP reveals that the U.S. is an outlier.

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