A conservative group is putting out a version of the Bible that more closely hews to their views.

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Troy Jollimore dismantles Karen Armstrong’s “The Case for God.”

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Neuroscientists are digitizing the sections of the brain of a famous amnesiac, hoping that preserving his brain will allow future scientists to further study how memories are formed.

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The Scout Association has restored the demand for adult volunteers to be religious. This requirement was quietly dropped in October 2008 when Scouting revamped its adult volunteer recruitment process. But the latest adult volunteer application form (pdf) revives the religion question.

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Nominations are in for Secularist of the Year and a pretty “catholic” list it turns out to be. The winner will be announced at the special event to present the £5,000 Irwin prize in February next year. So, here – in alphabetical order – are the nominations.

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Baltimore becomes the latest target of a national campaign, funded by an anonymous businessman from Philadelphia, intended to join atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and other nonbelievers…into something resembling a community, and one that ultimately could wield the sort of social, cultural and political power now enjoyed by the larger religious denominations.

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Brutality by another Huck-pardoned criminal suggests the 2012 GOP hopeful listened more to pastors than prosecutors.

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The way Islam has been practiced in most Muslim societies for centuries has left millions of Muslim women with battered bodies, minds and souls.

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