The religious police in Saudi Arabia arrested five women on Tuesday for driving in defiance of a ban on women getting behind the wheel in the conservative kingdom, according to activists and local media reports.

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Geert Wilders, the outspoken Dutch MP who branded Islam a violent religion and called the Koran a fascist book, has been acquitted of all charges of hate speech and discrimination at a trial seen as testing the boundaries of freedom of expression.

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An additional district and sessions judge in Talagang sentenced a man to death on Tuesday for committing blasphemy

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Many of the millions of Americans who do not believe in the supernatural have had enough of being targeted by unremitting discrimination.

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Southern Baptists on Wednesday (June 15) called hell an “eternal, conscious punishment” for those who do not accept Jesus, rebutting a controversial book from Michigan pastor Rob Bell that questions traditional views of hell.

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Despite recent cases in which Roman Catholic bishops failed to report or suspend priests accused of child sexual abuse, the bishops head into a meeting in Seattle on Wednesday proposing no significant revisions to the abuse prevention policies they passed in 2002 at the height of the scandal.

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Who would’ve thought that an atheist, who was a bunny killer by 5, an alcoholic by 15, a drug addict by 17, and a clinical sociopath by 18, would find God and start a multimillion-dollar software company.

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Rationality evolved to win arguments, some scholars suggest, and flawed reasoning is itself an adaptation.

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God is separately backing at least three different contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, sending signs and direct messages to each of these candidates encouraging them to run, presumably without telling them that he supports other candidates as well.

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After just an hour of deliberation, jurors on Tuesday (June 7) unanimously found two members of a faith-healing church guilty of felony criminal mistreatment for not seeking medical care for their daughter.

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Results of a recent Gallup poll reveal that Americans are still extremely religious—unlike Canadian, U.K., or European allies.

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What would you do if you were a breast cancer survivor and found out the cause of your cancer was not DNA mutations or risk factors such as smoking, drinking, and diet, but sin and Satan’s wiles?

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Atheist spokesman Richard Dawkins, while in Ireland to attend the World Atheist Convention, said the Irish Constitution should be reformed to remove the influence of the church.

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An atheist group is taking Central Arkansas Transit Authority to federal court saying the bus system and its advertising agency are denying their free speech rights by rejecting a proposed advertisement that reads “Are you good without god? Millions are.”

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In response to a lawsuit by an atheist family, a federal judge has ordered a Texas school district to prohibit public prayer at a high school graduation ceremony.

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The wishy-washy teachers, like the governor of Louisiana, are not uneducated. Some of them simply refuse to accept settled science because of their religious beliefs.

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