Tag: Religion

Do Mormons believe in Christianity?  Well, not really.

Article discusses the tax exemption status of religion in the USA and in European nations; detailing the wide variety of financial opportunities that the clerics enjoy and exploit. The financial loss in revenue to the nations is calculated, and the conclusion opines that the money would gained would be useful in alleviating hunger and improving education.

The finding that religion scarcely influences moral intuition undermines the idea that a godless society will be immoral, says Philip Ball. Whether it ‘explains’ religion is another matter.

A small Pike County church has voted not to accept interracial couples as members or let them take part in some worship activities.

The Canadian government is planning to create an international religious freedom watchdog that it’s installing within the Department of Foreign Affairs, with a $5-million annual budget, to promote and monitor religious freedom around the world.

‘Belief’ means something different to scientists and the faithful … we’re open to the idea Einstein may have been wrong.

As the city of New York prepares to remember the 10th anniversary of 9/11, religious leaders are raising concerns over the lack of clergy participating in the anniversary events.

An emerging Christian movement that seeks to take dominion over politics, business and culture in preparation for the end times and the return of Jesus is establishing a presence in American politics. The leaders are considered apostles and prophets, gifted by God for this role.

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.

Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe. In underdeveloped countries, there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is a peculiarly modern phenomenon. Why do modern conditions produce atheism?

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.

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.

It’s no secret that the distribution of wealth is inequitable in the United States across racial, regional, and socio-economic groups. But there is a distinct variance among and within America’s faiths as well.

Colleges and universities have long offered majors in religion or theology. But with more and more people now saying they have no religion, one college has decided to be the first to offer a major in secularism.

In Britain, children will learn about humanism, in addition to other religions, in the Religious Education component of their curriculum.

A scientific study of census data from nine countries shows a steep rise in the number of people claiming no religious affiliation, and predicts that the trend could continue until religion entirely dies out.

Oregon prosecutors and lawmakers endorsed a bill Monday (Feb. 21) that would remove special legal protection for parents who treat seriously ill children with faith healing instead of providing medical treatment.

State Rep. Mike Beard is a man with deep Christian values is a man with deep Christian values, a free-market conservative and a veteran of eight years on the Minnesota House Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee. Earlier this month he introduced legislation to lift the moratorium on coal-fired power plants in Minnesota. Beard believes that “God is not capricious. He’s given us a creation that is dynamically stable. We are not going to run out of anything.”

Is freedom a religious idea? As John McEnroe would have said, “You cannot be serious.” If you value freedom, you should flee from religion as the antelope flees the lion.

Oklahoma faces new proposed legislation that seeks to add creationism to the public school curriculum and to define when life “begins” within the womb. The new bills proposed by Republican legislators also seek to allow public funding for churches and to make stem cell research in the state illegal.