21st Mar 2010 : Nate Phelps was in Calgary this week, speaking to the University of Calgary's Centre for Inquiry.

21st Mar 2010 : Were you, as reported by the Vatican’s Chief Exorcist, Gabriele Amorth, lurking in the Vatican?

21st Mar 2010 : THE appointment of a new exorcist by Sydney's Catholic Church precedes a warning by a senior clergyman that generation Y risks a dangerous fascination with the occult

21st Mar 2010 : 'Bottom line,' says Daniel Cere, a professor of religion and public policy at McGill, 'it's a problem with a new religious community,which is Islam'

21st Mar 2010 : Today’s letter published by the Vatican, written by the current Pope, Joseph Ratzinger, is a subversive excuse for a true apology and an honest acknowledgment of guilt on the part of the pontiff.

21st Mar 2010 : AC Grayling and Russell Blackford discuss Atheism and related topics (i.e. Secularism) at the Nova Cinema in Carlton, Melbourne Australia. The event was sponsored by Readings bookstore.

21st Mar 2010 :

20th Mar 2010 : At a lunch party I was placed next to a well-known female rabbi, now ennobled. She asked me, somewhat belligerently, whether I said grace when it was my turn to do so at High Table dinner in my Oxford college.

20th Mar 2010 : ...reflects conventional wisdom about African American communities and faith. Namely, that African Americans are so unquestioningly religious that having any other viewpoint is grounds for "revocation" of one's race credentials.

19th Mar 2010 : Question: What should pastors do if they no longer hold the defining beliefs of their denomination?

19th Mar 2010 : What can make tens of millions of people – who are in their daily lives peaceful and compassionate and caring – suddenly want to physically dismember a man for drawing a cartoon

19th Mar 2010 : The article below didn’t get a run last week. To be honest, I have no problem being spiked. That’s going to happen every now and then seeing as though what I write can get pretty edgy. Nature of the beast. It’s a deeply conservative broadsheet newspaper.

19th Mar 2010 : We can't expect people to be either as self-denying as conservatives or as altruistic as liberals seem to want

18th Mar 2010 : Benedict is expected to sign a letter tomorrow to the faithful in Ireland after his talks with Irish bishops last month, when he described sex abuse as a grave sin and a "heinous crime".

18th Mar 2010 : Here are some questions that have haunted me for years. How many preachers actually believe what they say from the pulpit?

18th Mar 2010 : "We're equally capable of being ethical as people who are religious," he said. "We just want to be good for goodness' sake."

17th Mar 2010 : Please come to the House of Commons for a mass lobby meeting at 2pm Tuesday 23rd March.

17th Mar 2010 : ...misquoted evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, which has resulted in a misunderstanding being propagated throughout the entire Australian media at the detriment of Richard Dawkins’ name.

17th Mar 2010 : Chancellor Angela Merkel called the sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened."

17th Mar 2010 : Child sex scandals roiling the Roman Catholic church spread to Brazil Tuesday after the Vatican said three priests were under investigation following allegations of child abuse.

17th Mar 2010 : WHAT were we going to talk about all weekend? Nothing?

16th Mar 2010 : LIKE revivalists from an alternative universe, 2500 hardcore believers in the absence of religion packed into the Global Atheists Convention in Melbourne last weekend to give a hero's welcome to the high priest of belief in unbelief, Richard Dawkins.

16th Mar 2010 :

15th Mar 2010 : The pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it.

15th Mar 2010 : The authoritarian leader of the world's Catholics promised to restore the purity of his church. So why is it still plagued by scandal upon scandal? Peter Popham reports

15th Mar 2010 : The Lords is for people of all faiths and none: there is no space for reserved benches for the clergy.
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15th Mar 2010 :

15th Mar 2010 : TO DECLARE oneself an atheist has seemed not just acceptable, but even fashionable in recent years.

15th Mar 2010 : THEY came from everywhere, the true unbelievers: from Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, New Zealand and beyond.

15th Mar 2010 : AUSTRALIAN media has trouble covering issues of faith, often framing religion in a political context rather than as a personal issue of belief, says ABC chief Mark Scott.

14th Mar 2010 :

14th Mar 2010 : Consider this the promised Part III in a series.

14th Mar 2010 : March 10, 2010 on ABC Nightline

13th Mar 2010 : The American Humanist Association (AHA) stepped forward today and offered to plan and fund a prom for the Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Mississippi.

13th Mar 2010 : A nasty attempt to coerce Danish newspapers into apologizing for the cartoons of Mohammed.

13th Mar 2010 : The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week to revise its social studies curriculum.

13th Mar 2010 : IN THE beginning, Dan Barker found God and saw that he was good. He was a teenage evangelist at 15, spouting sermons on street corners in southern California.

13th Mar 2010 :

12th Mar 2010 : NICK XENOPHON'S appeal for a parliamentary inquiry into Scientology collapsed into acrimony yesterday, amid claims it represented an attack on organised religion.

12th Mar 2010 :

12th Mar 2010 : The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, California, ruled 2-1 Thursday that the pledge does not represent a government endorsement of religion, prohibited by the Constitution.

11th Mar 2010 : Former priest Bill Carney was named as one of the worst cases in Dublin's Catholic diocese in the Murphy report into clerical abuse there. However, for the last 10 years he has been free to live quietly in Britain.

11th Mar 2010 : The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican's chief exorcist claimed on Wednesday.

11th Mar 2010 : Jewish group says government has gone too far

11th Mar 2010 :

10th Mar 2010 : Mr. Deity and Timmy conspire to test out the new gadget from R&D.

10th Mar 2010 : Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry has thrown his weight behind calls for a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology, saying the church's teachings are putting Australians' lives at risk.

10th Mar 2010 :

10th Mar 2010 : Movement may have seen its best days

9th Mar 2010 : Challenges to Darwin's theory dog prominent atheist
Dawkins' Down Under events being followed by book distributions

9th Mar 2010 : Fred Phelps frequently protests at funerals - court reaction

9th Mar 2010 :

8th Mar 2010 : Taner Edis thinks Gary Bouma is right about secularism and that Russell Blackford is wrong. I think Taner is mostly wrong that Russell is wrong that Gary Bouma is wrong. Still with me?

8th Mar 2010 : Coyne was quoted in this article on homeschooling, which brought in an unexpected surge of email, including some rather nasty words from the Christians.

8th Mar 2010 : The Q&A panel includes: Richard Dawkins, Patrick McGorry, Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio, Tony Burke and Julie Bishop.

7th Mar 2010 : Taner Edis disagrees with Russell Blackford's latest post

7th Mar 2010 : Freethought Radio, March 6, 2010

6th Mar 2010 : According to an ABC News report, Professor Gary Bouma has used a conference at the University of Sydney to attack secularists and atheists as a source of social division.

5th Mar 2010 : The Ten Commandments were set in stone, but it may be time for a re-chisel. With all due humility, the author takes on the job, pruning the ethically dubious, challenging the impossible, and rectifying some serious omissions.

5th Mar 2010 : Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.

4th Mar 2010 : "Don't believe in God? You are not alone."

4th Mar 2010 : We’ve talked a bit about the tragedy at SeaWorld, where the orca Tillikum dragged his young keeper underwater, mauling and drowning her.

4th Mar 2010 :

4th Mar 2010 : The draft national curriculum does not prohibit the teaching of creationism in schools, raising questions about whether this will open the door to its promotion as a science in classrooms.

3rd Mar 2010 : The chief executive of Christian Schools Australia, Stephen O'Doherty, said the board statement was too strident, removing the right to teach "biblical perspectives" as part of science.

2nd Mar 2010 : Richard Dawkins will speak at the Sydney Opera House at 2pm this Sunday, March 7

2nd Mar 2010 : Had the urge to try my hand at some animation and some new software, I think it turned out quite well. For some reason I decided to recreate the popular "What if you're wrong?" clip on youtube featuring Richard Dawkins lecture in Lynchburg .

2nd Mar 2010 : As the world reacts to the monstrous earthquake off the coast of Chile, one voice remains curiously quiet. Without Marion Gordon “Pat” Robertson to guide us, we are unable to decipher why god has caused this particular calamity.

2nd Mar 2010 : An influential Muslim scholar has issued a global ruling against terrorism and suicide bombing.

2nd Mar 2010 : British atheists, including author Richard Dawkins, began advertising on buses last year, and now Melbourne is getting on board.

2nd Mar 2010 : The New Apostolic Reformation, the largest religious movement you've never heard of, aims to take control of communities through 'prayer warriors.'

2nd Mar 2010 : When is a writers festival about writing and when is it about issues and ideas?

1st Mar 2010 : One of a collection of billboards just put up in the Sacramento area supporting atheist beliefs has been vandalized.

1st Mar 2010 : Representatives from the Secular Coalition for America met with White House officials on February 26 to discuss issues of concern to secular Americans.

1st Mar 2010 : As a person of faith it’s gratifying to know that my views are being taken seriously.

1st Mar 2010 : In a free and democratic society it is surprising that there are those who want to close down robust debate about religion and atheism.

1st Mar 2010 : Last month, after an upsetting phone conversation with her estranged husband, Ms. Taylor became light-headed and fell down a flight of stairs in her home.

1st Mar 2010 : One: Its a very nice gesture in that it acknowledges that Atheists exist. That's a big step forward.

28th Feb 2010 : The controversy caused by our decision to close the forums on RichardDawkins.net has greatly upset me.

28th Feb 2010 : Under a bill that has passed the legislature and awaits signature by the governor, miscarriages that result from an "intentional, knowing, or reckless act" would be treated as illegal abortions, punishable by life in prison.

27th Feb 2010 : HANNITY: The Obama administration earlier today rolled out the red carpet for a coalition of atheist groups....

27th Feb 2010 : A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday, killing at least 122 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin.

27th Feb 2010 : "There was a knock at the door. I tried to scream but I couldn’t utter a sound." Janne Geraets, now 57, suffered repeated sexual abuse from the age of 11 at the hands of a priest at the Roman Catholic school where he was a boarder.

27th Feb 2010 : Richard Dawkins's barely literate polemic "The God Delusion" declares that religion is irrational without ever explaining the foundations of reason itself. Sam Harris's diatribe "The End of Faith" has to falsify history...

26th Feb 2010 : Some conservative commentators are accusing the Obama administration of inviting "hate groups" into the White House by holding a meeting with a coalition of secularist and atheist groups.

26th Feb 2010 : The Templeton Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships, one familiar name is Chris Mooney of accommodationist fame.

26th Feb 2010 : In a book review on the New York Times online Opinionator page, Stanley Fish offers specious objections to the following item of political wisdom

26th Feb 2010 : Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Thursday for a "jihad" or armed struggle against Switzerland, saying it was an infidel state that was destroying mosques.

26th Feb 2010 : Mr. Deity and Larry have an awkward lunch with John the Baptist

26th Feb 2010 : Vote Now in Our Issues Poll
The Secular Coalition for America will engage in a policy briefing with White House officials on Friday, February 26, 2010

25th Feb 2010 : Blair Scott is the Affiliate Director for American Atheists, an organization founded in 1963 by Madalyn Murray O’Hair to fight for separation of Church and State and equal rights for Atheists in the US.

25th Feb 2010 : In India, we have started going downhill ever since our rulers started running after astrologers...

25th Feb 2010 : “Kidnapping for Jesus” is what many, including outraged Idahoans, have called it in reader response to newspaper stories about the missionaries.

25th Feb 2010 : Jim Murphy wants more religion in British politics. If we don't clamp down on faith schools now, he might get his wish.

25th Feb 2010 : More intelligent people are significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds.

24th Feb 2010 : A group of atheists says it faced discrimination when a bus company rejected its advertisements and is now considering legal action. (New Zealand)

24th Feb 2010 : The report warns of a serious "capabilities gap" and recommends that President Obama make religion "an integral part of our foreign policy."

24th Feb 2010 : State Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA) declared last week that an increased number of disabled children are a punishment from nature, taking "vengeance" for prior abortions by their mothers.

23rd Feb 2010 : With blatant disregard for the first amendment, Republicans' intolerance of US secularism means things are turning ugly

23rd Feb 2010 : The Ohio clergy, all Protestant members of Clergy Voice, say that the house serves no public interest and has no recognized creed or form of worship.