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Rick Perry’s God

By Christopher Hitchens August 29, 2011.

Print: Slate

Does the Texas governor believe his idiotic religious rhetoric, or is he just pandering for votes?

Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony

By Todd Starnes June 3, 2011.

Print: Fox News

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.

Atheist Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honor

By JAY REEVES September 20, 2010.

Print: Associated Press

Christopher Hitchens, suffering from cancer, is not participating in “Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day”.

Christian teacher sacked for offering to pray for sick pupil

Nigel Bunyan December 20, 2009.

Print: The Telegraph

A Christian teacher was sacked within hours of offering to pray for a sick pupil during a home mentoring visit. Olive Jones, 54, said yesterday that she has been made a victim of religious persecution for discussing her faith with the child and her mother, who complained about her behaviour. After she was sacked, she was told the family had strongly objected to her approach because they are non-believers, and that a formal complaint had been lodged about her.

Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son

MENSAH M. DEAN October 8, 2009.

Print: Philadelphia Daily News

Two Pennsylvania parents now face criminal charges due to the death of their infant, as a result of bacterial pneumonia. This death could have been prevented by consulting a physician and the use of Tylenol or an antibiotic, however the parents elected to try and combat the illness with prayer, rather than medicine.

Say a prayer before sex

Alastair Jamieson September 1, 2009.

Print: Telegraph.co.uk

Couples are being encouraged to pray together before sex in a new book published by prominent church group Catholic Truth Society.

Allowing pupils to opt out of school prayer is wrong says Archbishop of Wales

Jon Swaine August 7, 2009.

Print: Telegraph.co.uk

A law allowing 16-year-olds to opt out of prayers in assembly devalues and marginalizes religion in schools, warns Dr. Barry Morgan, the Archbishop of Wales.

Cambridge college to scrap Christian grace

May 14, 2009.

Print: Telegraph

Students from Newnham College Cambridge University will no longer say a traditional Christian grace before dinner instead using a secular version.

Looking for light in dark times

Marie Jackson March 9, 2009.

BBC News

“Lord God, we live in disturbing days: across the world prices rise, debts increase, banks collapse, jobs are taken away, and fragile security is under threat.”

A New Tradition for Obama’s Presidential Events: Opening With a Prayer

Dan Gilgoff February 24, 2009.

U.S. News & World Report

A New Tradition for Obama’s Presidential Events: Opening With a Prayer

The Biology Of Belief

Jeffrey Kluger February 14, 2009.

Time

Most folks probably couldn’t locate their parietal lobe with a map and a compass. For the record, it’s at the top of your head — aft of the frontal lobe, fore of the occipital lobe, north of the temporal lobe. What makes the parietal lobe special is not where it lives but what it does — particularly concerning matters of faith.

Christian school receptionist row: More bishops speak out in support of Jennie Cain

Martin Beckford and Caroline Gammell February 13, 2009.

Telegraph.co.uk

Christianity is not just something that happens between consenting adults behind closed doors a bishop has said as support grows for the receptionist who faces the sack in a row with her school over religion.

Don’t pray for me, please

Susan Blackmore February 6, 2009.

Guardian.co.uk

The largest scientific study of the effects of prayer showed that it could, in fact, be harmful

Work vs. prayer

January 8, 2010.