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2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief SystemA 2,900-year-old gravestone from the ancient kingdom of Sam'al, located in what is today southeastern Turkey, has shed light on an ancient religious belief heretofore unknown. The gravestone, called a stele, is in nearly pristine condition and archaeologists were able to translate all the writing... |
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Blithering utopianism in the cause of ignorance [Pharyngula]The TED folks are sponsoring a disturbingly vacuous call for a Charter for Compassion, which they claim is an attempt to rescue religion from an aberrant fundamentalism by emphasizing the goodness of faith. I don't see it. What I see is a foolish whitewashing of religious history to claim that it... |
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Huffington Post Distorts Palin's 2012 White House/Prayer CommentsOn his November 10 Huffington Post, Nicholas Graham and nearly every commenter thereafter, purposefully distorted what Governor Palin said about prayer and the 2012 presidential race. The universal misconstruction of Palin's comments was that she was "praying to become president" in 201... |
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Freshwater's Poor Teaching [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]The Columbus Dispatch reports on day 5 of the Freshwater hearings. Part of that day was devoted to complaints from science teachers at the high school that students who had Freshwater in middle school had to be retaught basic science because Freshwater was really teaching creationism: Mt. Vern... |
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Matthews Mocks Palin For Saying God Blessed America With Natural ResourcesO beautiful for spacious skies,For amber waves of grain,For purple mountain majestiesAbove the fruited plain!America! America!God shed his grace on thee. Has Chris Matthews heard America the Beautiful lately? What could be a more broadly acceptable sentiment than to suggest that God has bl... |
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Atheism: The Honor of Facing Our Condition Without GodThe more we reflect on the pleasures of life, the more we miss the greatest consolation that used to be provided by religious belief: the promise that our lives will continue after death. As religious belief weakens, more and more of us know that after death there is nothing. Living without God i... |
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