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Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi
Reuters
August 30, 2010
Print: Yahoo News
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.
Barack Obama: Closeted Non-Believer?
By Ali A. Rizvi
August 29, 2010
Print: The Huffington Post
It’s irrelevant whether Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim — as long as he governs like he’s neither.
U.S. was born a Christian nation
By Robert Knight
August 29, 2010
Print: CNN
Robert Knight claims that the founding fathers were heavily influenced by Christianity in writing the Constitution and laws of the United States of America.
At Lincoln Memorial, a Call for Religious Rebirth
By KATE ZERNIKE and CARL HULSE
August 28, 2010
Print: New York Times
Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called a Tea Party rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial that was half-political and half-religious.
Remembrances of Lives Past
By LISA MILLER
August 28, 2010
Print: New York Times
From the intersection of pscyhotherapy and New Age beliefs comes reincarnation therapy, which involves psychologists inducing their patients to recall past lives.
Ireland’s sons turn their backs on the priesthood
Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent
August 27, 2010
Print: The Independent, UK
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.
Changing Minds
By Anne Trafton
August 26, 2010
Print: Technology Review
Disrupting brain activity with magnets can alter moral judgments.
Religion-Based Groups Protest Restrictions in Bill
By STEPHANIE STROM
August 26, 2010
Print: New York Times
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.
Far From Ground Zero, Obscure Pastor Is Ignored No Longer
By DAMIEN CAVE
August 26, 2010
Print: New York Times,
Florida pastor Terry Jones plans to commemorate the 9-11 attack by burning copies of the Koran.
Northern Ireland priest’s role in bombing covered up, probe finds
Henry Chu
August 24, 2010
Print: Los Angeles Times
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
Ruling a blow to stem cell research
By Karen Kaplan and Noam N. Levey
August 24, 2010
Print: Los Angeles Times
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.
Where Islam and Christianity Collide
By Christopher Caldwell
August 23, 2010
Print: Slate
Book review of “The Tenth Parallel”, by Eliza Griswold, about the bloody borderlands where Islam and Christianity collide.
Harvard Finds Scientist Guilty of Misconduct
By NICHOLAS WADE
August 20, 2010
Print: New York Times
Marc Hauser, a leading researcher in animal and human cognition at Harvard University, has been found of scientific misconduct.
U.S. Soldiers Punished for not Attending Christian Concert
By CHRIS RODDA
August 20, 2010
Print: Huffington Post
For years, American soldiers have been punished for not attending Christian propaganda sessions.
Popular Taoist Priest Was A Fraud: Authority
Jiang Aitao
August 20, 2010
Print: China Radio International
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.
Is Sharron Angle a Christian Reconstructionist?
By Amanda Marcotte
August 19, 2010
Print: Slate
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.
The Ground Zero Mosque: Sam Harris vs. Reza Aslan
Sam Harris and Reza Aslan
August 18, 2010
Audio: KPCC
Sam Harris speaks with Patt Morrison and Reza Aslan about the Ground Zero Mosque and the problem of Islam.
Faithful to a God-hating ideology to the bitter end
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
August 18, 2010
Print: World Tribune
Radio talkshow host Jeff Kuhner takes potshots at Christopher Hitchens.
On Dawkins’s Atheism: A Response
By GARY GUTTING
August 13, 2010
Print: New York Times
Gutting tries to back up his assertion that Richard Dawkins’s assertions in The God Delusion are “demonstrably false”.
Expert on Morality Is on Leave After Research Inquiry
By NICHOLAS WADE
August 13, 2010
Print: New York Times
Marc Hauser, a Harvard academic who gained prominence with the publication of a book on the biological origin of morality, has gone on leave after an investigation by the university into problems with his research.
