Tag: Bible

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting an unconstitutional resolution naming 2012 the “Year of the Bible,” unanimously passed (193-0) in the Pennsylvania General Assembly this week.

Creationists find support for the Biblical story of creation in the heat emitted by a moon of Saturn.

New scholarship on the Good Book’s naughty bits and how it deals with adultery, divorce, and same-sex love.

Some believers predict that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.  Guided by their interpretation of scripture, they are attempting to spread their message before it is too late.

In a stunt posted on YouTube, an Australian burns both the Koran and the Bible, testing pages from each as rolling paper for a marijuana joint.

It’s irrelevant whether Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim — as long as he governs like he’s neither.

From a recent article in Newsweek, an excerpt from Mark Twain’s autobiography set to be released in November.

Ingersoll describes in detail why he does not find the Bible to be a moral guide.  He illustrates his point with examples from various books and teachings within the Old and New Testaments.

Every bit of Christian teaching can be summed up in three words: God is love. That is the simple truth that teaches tolerance of same-sex unions.

N.Y. Times columnist attacks Richard Dawkins for saying that Pat Robertson’s views on Haiti represent orthodox Christianity.

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. Biblical citations inscribed on U.S. military weapons is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament that reads “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as “a manual of bad morals,” and a “catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature.”

Lo and behold, the Bible has gotten too liberal, according to a group of conservatives. And it needs a little editing.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/05/conservative-bible-projec_n_310037.html

In case you missed the announcement, ShipofFools.com has published an “authoritative” list of the ten worst verses in the Bible.

Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose take on the Bible is about to be released worldwide, says people are “totally nuts” for taking the book so seriously for so long.

U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests.

Brad Pitt is interviewed by Bill Maher on Real Time.  Mr. Pitt discusses his Secularism aside from other subjects.

La Familia Michoacana, one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels, claims its thugs are devout evangelical Christians and has its own “bible.” The group’s beliefs call for members to abstain from drugs themselves and do charity work, but to torture or kill anyone who betrays or opposes them.

Orator and defender of agnosticism Robert Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), tells the truth about the Bible as he knew it in 1894.

Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday. The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while deployed there.