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Pakistan on strike against bill to amend blasphemy law
Jill McGivering
December 31, 2010
Print: BBC News
Strikes paralyzed several cities in Pakistan, as demonstrators protested against a proposal to moderate the blasphemy law, which currently carries a mandatory death sentence for anyone who insults Islam, and which has been criticized for being used to persecute religious minorities.
Atheists Protest to Participate in D.C. Inaugural Prayer Service
By Stephanie Samuel
December 31, 2010
Print: The Christian Post
The Secular Coalition of Washington D.C. is protesting that the new mayor’s inaugural ecumenical prayer service will not include a humanist representative.
Let’s forget the fire and brimstone
Chris Patten
December 29, 2010
Print: The Australian
Chris Patten, ex-governor of Hong Kong and now Chancellor of Oxford University, decries fundamentalism of all kinds, including “fundametalist atheists” and celebrates the resurgence of religion that he saw in 2010.
Some Israelis Question Benefits for Ultra-Religious
By ISABEL KERSHNER
December 28, 2010
Print: New York Times
State welfare subsidies for full-time Torah study by ultra-Orthodox men have become the subject of a fierce debate.
In Pursuit of a Mind Map, Slice by Slice
By ASHLEE VANCE
December 27, 2010
Print: New York Times
Brain researchers are now trying to create a three dimensional map of a mouse brain.
Walking Santa, Talking Christ: Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are?
By Shankar Vedantam
December 24, 2010
Print: Slate
Surveys showing high levels of church attendance in America are likely overstated by unreliable self-reporting.
Schoolchildren announce bumble-bee breakthrough in top science journal
ALOM SHAHA
December 21, 2010
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A scientific study published today in the prestigious Royal Society journal Biology Letters was “conceived, carried out, summarized and written up by a class of 8 to 10 years olds” from Blackawton Primary School in Devon.
Catholic affiliation stripped from hospital
Mitchell Landsberg
December 21, 2010
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The Roman Catholic bishop of Phoenix stripped a hospital of its Catholic affiliation Tuesday for performing an abortion last year that doctors said was needed to save the life of the mother.
A Rabbi’s Thoughts: What Christmas Tells Us About America
Eric H. Yoffie
December 21, 2010
Print: Huffington Post
A rabbi celebrates the religiosity of the Christmas season.
Atheists’ numbers doom them to irrelevance
Tom Sears
December 21, 2010
Print: The Daily Star (Oneonta, New York)
Tom Sears, local professor of accounting in Oneonta, New York, scoffs at atheists, who number only a paltry 3% of the population.
Stockholm bombing: Iraqi group linked to al-Qaida praises attack
Ian Black
December 14, 2010
Print: The Guardian
Suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly referred to as ‘martyr’ on Islamist website
Atheist Bus Ads Rattle Fort Worth
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
December 13, 2010
Print: New York Times
Among the numerous atheist advertising campaigns going on, the one in Forth Worth, Texas seems to be generating the most controversy.
Stockholm blasts: Sweden probes ‘terrorist attack’
December 12, 2010
Print: BBC News
Stockholm is hit by a suicide bomber motivated by Swedish “silence” over cartoons of Muhammad.
How Religious Fundamentalism Enables Sadists Like Elizabeth Smart’s Kidnapper
by Sarah Seltzer
December 10, 2010
Print: alternet.org
“In fundamentalist branches of all the major religions, crimes against women take place egged on by the patriarchal tenets of the religions themselves.”
Dear atheists: most of us don’t care what you think
Charles Lewis
December 7, 2010
Print: National Post
Charles Lewis, a Christian from Canada and writer for the National Post, just doesn’t care what Christopher Hitchens thinks.
Atheist Ministers Struggle With Leading the Faithful
By DAN HARRIS and WONBO WOO
December 6, 2010
Print: ABC News
Two ministers who have lost their faith are interviewed by ABC News.
Noah’s Ark, the Theme Park
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
December 6, 2010
Print: New York Times
Facing a rising tide of joblessness, the governor of Kentucky has found one solution: build an ark.
Christopher Hitchens: my hero of 2010
Richard Dawkins
December 1, 2010
Print: The Guardian
An homage to Christopher Hitchens by Richard Dawkins.
The Beautiful Mind
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
December 1, 2010
Print: New York Times
A slideshow from the book “Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain From Antiquity to the 21st Century”, a collection of pictures of the brain made by scientists studying the brain.
