Physicist Stephen Hawking writes in his new book, ‘The Grand Design,’ that God did not create the universe, because gravity means it would have happened on its own.

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Believers see vines growing on a power pole as a sign from God.

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For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. In Kandahar, population about 500,000, and other towns, dance parties are a popular, often weekly, pastime. Young boys dress up as girls, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home. A recent State Department report called “dancing boys” a “widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape.”

Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law.

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Prominent rabbi curses the Palestinians, calling for a plague upon them and their leader ahead of Middle East peace talks set to begin next week.

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It’s irrelevant whether Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim — as long as he governs like he’s neither.

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Robert Knight claims that the founding fathers were heavily influenced by Christianity in writing the Constitution and laws of the United States of America.

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Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called a Tea Party rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial that was half-political and half-religious.

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From the intersection of pscyhotherapy and New Age beliefs comes reincarnation therapy, which involves psychologists inducing their patients to recall past lives.

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The number of priestly ordinations in Ireland has dipped below England and Wales for the first time in living memory, new figures reveal.

The recruitment crisis is a clear indication of how low the church has sunk in a country that once used to export Catholic missionaries to all corners of the globe and often provided Britain with a significant proportion of its priests.

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Disrupting brain activity with magnets can alter moral judgments.

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More than 100 religion-based organizations are protesting a provision in pending legislation that would prohibit them from receiving federal money if they consider a job applicant’s religion when hiring.

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Florida pastor Terry Jones plans to commemorate the 9-11 attack by burning copies of the Koran.

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Britain and the Catholic Church conspired to hide the suspected role of a priest in a 1972 triple bombing that killed nine people, an ombudsman’s investigation finds

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A U.S. district judge on Monday blocked the federal government from funding all research involving human embryonic stem cells on the grounds that it violates a 1996 law intended to prevent the destruction of of human embryos.

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Book review of “The Tenth Parallel”, by Eliza Griswold, about the bloody borderlands where Islam and Christianity collide.

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Marc Hauser, a leading researcher in animal and human cognition at Harvard University, has been found of scientific misconduct.

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For years, American soldiers have been punished for not attending Christian propaganda sessions.

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A well-known Taoist priest, who has a reported following of 30,000 followers including some celebrities, was involved in fraud, local authorities in Chongqing said after an investigation.

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Sharon Angle, the Republican candidate for the senate seat of Majority Leader Harry Reid, speaks in a jarringly and overtly religious manner, because of the influence of Christian Reconstructionism.

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Sam Harris speaks with Patt Morrison and Reza Aslan about the Ground Zero Mosque and the problem of Islam.

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