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Missouri ‘Right to Pray’ Amendment Passes
The Huffington Post
August 8, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
Amendment allows students to reject school assignments that ‘violate his or her religious beliefs’
Comeuppance for the Church Hierarchy
Editorial
July 30, 2012
Print: The New York Times
A dose of criminal justice was long overdue in the pedophile priest scandal.
Survey finds 19% without religious affiliation
By Cathy Lynn Grossman
July 21, 2012
Print: USA Today
Unbelief is on the uptick. People who check “None” for their religious affiliation are now nearly one in five Americans (19%), the highest ever documented.
American Confidence in Organized Religion At All Time Low
The Huffington Post
July 12, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
Americans’ faith in organized religion/church is currently at the lowest ever since Gallup’s institutions poll first began in 1973.
Mormons quit church in mass resignation ceremony
By Jennifer Dobner
July 3, 2012
Print: Chicago Tribune
In a mass resignation, 150 Mormons leave the church over issues ranging from polygamy and gay rights to church discrepancies with science.
US Catholic bishops’ abuse of ‘religious freedom’
By Katherine Stewart
June 26, 2012
Print: The Guardian
The founding fathers saw the state as guarantor of freedom from persecution. Now, the Church is trying to cast it as persecutor.
Thoughts of death make only the religious more devout
By Stephanie Pappas
June 22, 2012
Print: MSNBC
Thinking about death makes Christians and Muslims, but not atheists, more likely to believe in God, new research finds, suggesting that the old saying about “no atheists in foxholes” doesn’t hold water.
Donations to religious institutions decline for second straight year
By Lauren Markoe
June 20, 2012
Print: The Washington Post
Post-recession America is beginning to open its wallet to charities again, but is not giving as generously to religious institutions.
Is Pleasure a Sin?
By Maureen Dowd
June 6, 2012
Print: The New York Times
In its jihad on nuns, the Vatican shows no mercy to a Sister of Mercy.
How Christian Fundamentalists Plan to Teach Genocide to Children
By Katherine Stewart
June 1, 2012
Print: The Guardian
Good News Clubs’ evangelism in schools is already subverting church-state separation. Now they justify murdering nonbelievers.
Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own For Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
By Sharon Otterman and Ray Rivera
May 10, 2012
Print: The New York Times
In confronting Jewish laws that forbid airing allegations against fellow Jews or turning them in to the police, families of ultra-Orthodox victims who have been molested face intimidation by their communities.
Misogyny in the Middle East: The Real Elephant in the Room
By Ali A. Rizvi
May 1, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
Saying that sexism and misogyny in the Middle East has “nothing to do” with Islam is symptomatic of either denial or fear.
Young ‘Millenials’ Losing Faith in Record Numbers
By Lauren Markoe
April 21, 2012
Print: The Washington Post
A growing tide of young Americans is drifting away from the religions of their childhood — and most of them are ending up in no religion at all.
On Good Friday, 9 men nailed to crosses in Philippines
By Elizabeth Flock
April 7, 2012
Print: The Washington Post
Nine Catholic devotees in the Philippines marked Good Friday by reenacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, with real nails driven through their hands and feet.
What One Atheist Learned From Hanging Out With Creationists
By Jason Rosenhouse
March 21, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
For many creationists, evangelical Christianity represents a tiny island of righteousness adrift in a sea of secular evil. An atheist author tries to better understand their objections to science.
Did Jesus Exist?
By Bart D. Ehrman
March 20, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
One may well choose to resonate with the concerns of our post-modern despisers of established religion. But surely the best way to promote any such agenda is not to deny what virtually every sane historian on the planet has come to conclude.
Why Are Religious Beliefs Off Limits?
By Lawrence Krauss
March 6, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
Are the religious beliefs of political candidates off limits in public discourse? Lawrence Krauss doesn’t think so, at least not when candidates wear their religion on their sleeves.
Santorum says he ‘almost threw up’ after reading JFK speech on separation of church and state
By Felicia Sonmez
February 26, 2012
Print: The Washington Post
On Sunday, Rick Santorum defended a statement he made last October in which he said that he “almost threw up” when he read John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Houston address on the role of religion in public life.
Organ Donation: Jews Can Learn Something From Atheists
By Eliyahhu Federman
February 26, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
On the issue of posthumous organ donation, religious individuals could learn a lesson from atheists. Only they can help those in need of organ transplants.
Alabama Bill Will Allow Churches to Teach Religion Classes to Public School Students
By Greg Harrison
February 25, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
Under the plan, Alabama high school students could go off campus to study creationism and earn an elective credit.
