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Italian Catholic Church under pressure to start paying property tax
By Nick Squires
December 13, 2011
Print: The Telegraph
The Roman Catholic Church in Italy is under growing pressure to start paying taxes on its massive property portfolio, in a move that could raise up to 800 million euros (£680 million) a year and help bail the country out of its economic crisis.
Billboard campaign hopes to dispel atheist stereotypes
by Dianna M. Náñez
December 11, 2011
Print: Tuscon Citizen
Billboard campaign hopes to dispel atheist stereotypes by showing atheist families.
Irreverent atheists crowdsource charitable giving
By Tom Miles
December 10, 2011
Print: Reuters
Atheist bloggers have shown their charitable side by swarming to donate money to Doctors Without Borders, in what turned into the humanitarian agency’s biggest online fundraiser.
Islam, Charles Darwin, and the denial of science
By Steve Jones
December 7, 2011
Print: The Telegraph
A growing number of biology and medical students are rejecting the very basis of their chosen subject in favour of creationism.
Call for Submissions for IFFF 2012 is Open
By Andrea Steele
December 6, 2011
Print: Freethought Film Festival Foundation Website
The International Freethought Film Festival is a niche film festival for the bold. Promoting reason through film is its mission. Season two of the International Freethought Film Festival is now underway, and the Call for Submissions is open for IFFF 2012.
Why are people still afraid of atheism?
By Tom Jacobs
November 27, 2011
Print: Network for Church Monitoring
Plenty of people are reviled for their religious beliefs. But a lack of faith seems to inspire even more intense antipathy.
Atheists launch campaign to get unbelievers to ‘come out’
By Kimberly Winston
November 26, 2011
Print: Washington Post
Three university students start a campaign “We Are Atheism” to encourage atheists to “come out” about their beliefs.
Biblical Scholarship and the Right to Know
By Bart Ehrman
November 18, 2011
Print: The Humanist
Biblical scholar, author, and former born-again Christian Bart Ehrman was presented with the Religious Liberty Award at the American Humanist Association’s 70th annual conference in Boston. The following article was adapted from his speech.
Muslim scholars fight to dispel polio vaccination myths in Pakistan
By Sana Saleem
November 6, 2011
Print: The Guardian
Militant Islamists have spread conspiracy theories about vaccinations – which has contributed to a resurgence in polio.
‘In God We Trust’, when politically convenient
By Herb Silverman
November 4, 2011
Print: The Washington Post
The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted in favor of a Congressional resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the national motto and supporting its placement on public buildings, public schools, and other government institutions.
Mississippi ‘personhood’ amendment takes aim at birth control as well as abortion
By Susan Jacoby
November 3, 2011
Print: The Washington Post
Mississippi’s Proposition 26, based on religious extremism and ignorance of human anatomy and biology, is not just about abortion. It would allow religious interference with all medical care involving the female reproductive system.
From Telomeres to the Origins of Life
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
October 17, 2011
Print: New York Times
An interview with biochemist Jack Szostak, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine, on his work researching the biochemical origins of life.
Atheist Ugandan works his magic on British humanists
By Matthew Cresswell
October 17, 2011
Print: The Guardian
James ‘Fat Boy’ Onen has been speaking in the UK of his fight against superstition and religion in Uganda
Faster than light story highlights the difference between science and religion
By Alom Shaha
September 29, 2011
Print: The Guardian
‘Belief’ means something different to scientists and the faithful … we’re open to the idea Einstein may have been wrong.
Why the Pope must face justice at The Hague
By Barbara Blaine
September 18, 2011
Print: The Guardian
On 13 September, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) filed an 84-page complaint and over 20,000 pages of supporting materials with the International Criminal Court, documenting the charge that the Pope and Vatican officials have tolerated and enabled the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes throughout the world.
Republicans Against Science
By Paul Krugman
August 29, 2011
Print: The New York Times
Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn’t a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that’s too bad, because Mr. Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the G.O.P. — namely, that it is becoming the “anti-science party.” This is an enormously important development. And it should terrify us.
9/11 gave birth to aggressive, unapologetic `New Atheists’
by Kimberly Winston
August 28, 2011
Print: The Christian Century
The New Atheists have their supporters and detractors, but one thing is certain is that they’ve changed the bounds of acceptable discussion.
Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes
By Michael Lind
August 25, 2011
Print: salon.com
With less fanfare and more tact than the new atheists, “secular humanists” have attempted to provide an all-encompassing public philosophy based on science, as an alternative to moralities and political programs justified by supernatural religion.
Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact
By Richard Dawkins
August 24, 2011
Print: The Washington Post
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.
Science and religion: God didn’t make man; man made gods
By J. Anderson Thomson and Clare Aukofer
August 20, 2011
Print: Los Angeles Times
In recent years scientists specializing in the mind have begun to unravel religion’s “DNA.”
