About 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as no religion in particular, agnostic or atheist — a figure that has doubled since a similar survey was taken in 1990. Also, that number increases to a third when you focus on people under 30. That’s not to say those people don’t believe in God, it’s just [...]
According to, get this, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), who is a prominent member of the House Science Committee. Broun made his thoughts known about science during a lecture at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet on September 27, 2012, in Hartwell, Georgia. Further, Broun also told the audience that all available scientific evidence leads him to believe that [...]
John Brousseau was a high-ranking member of the Church of Scientology for 32 years. He left the organization in 2010 and recently shared his story with the Village Voice. You’ll want to read the entire piece and then stick around for the comments as one of the people featured in Brousseau’s story checks in with [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard that Chick-Fil-A doesn’t like gay people. Which should only be shocking to anyone that doesn’t already know they are essentially a Christian fast food hate organization. Okay, that’s really hyperbolic, but the company adheres to its Christian principals through and through, including not opening on Sunday. That they hate gay [...]
Vice Magazine continues its run of high-quality pieces with an examination of Westboro Baptist Church: We followed the story of the Westboro Baptist Church as families split and children were brainwashed into picketing funerals and bashing homosexuals. During that time, we interviewed more than a dozen members of the reviled group, including some of the [...]
From IRC Images: “The people of Mexico were lined up along the streets to see the Pope. This little guy thought otherwise.” The photo was taken by Yuri Cortez of Getty Images way back in the end of March, and actually, the dog was trailing the Popemobile along the streets of Guanajuato, Mexico, according to [...]
The Vatican Library and Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have announced a plan to digitize many of the Vatican’s ancient text collections. The project, which will be undertaken in collaboration with Oxford’s Bodleian Library and supported by a $3.2 million grant from the Polonsky Foundation, will make some 1.5 million digitized pages freely available online from the [...]
Two different stories about homosexuality and the bible floating out there in the world within days of one another is just two good to pass up. So here they are, lumped together for your reading pleasure. 1. Dan Savage highly recommends a new documentary on the subject by Matthew Vines: Matthew Vines is a young [...]
“I’m freaking out!! I can’t breathe! It smells like money and amazingness!!” — Diego Quintanilla, upon seeing Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey attending Sunday service at Houston’s Lakewood Church.
Studying the human genome has disproven the possibility that we sprang from two people, NPR reports.Shocking, right: Karl Giberson - who taught physics at Eastern Nazarene College until his views became too uncomfortable in Christian academia - says Protestants who question Adam and Eve are akin to Galileo in the 1600s, who defied Catholic Church doctrine by [...]
