FEWER than half of Americans know that the Dalai Lama, who is wrapping up a two-week visit to Washington, is Buddhist. According to this report, the US Religious Knowledge Survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that only 47 percent of Americans correctly identified the Dalai Lama as Buddhist. Pew [...]
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REPUBLICAN Rick Perry – who replaced George W Bush as Governor of Texas – is partnering with the crazy Christian American Family Association (AFA) to hold an all-day prayer event in Houston this August. Perry has invited his fellow governors to join him at the event to: Call upon Jesus to guide us through unprecedented [...]
TWO secular Alcoholics Anonymous groups in Toronto, Canada – known as Beyond Belief and We Agnostics – have been removed or “delisted” from a roster of local meetings. They disappeared last week from the Toronto AA website and will not be in the next printed edition of the Toronto directory. The row started when Beyond [...]
A PIECE written for Religiousintelligence.com – based on the results from a recent poll published by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life -Â says the finding reveal what social scientists have known for a long time: Authors Phil Zuckerman and Dan Cady wrote: Jesus unambiguously preached mercy and forgiveness. These are supposed to [...]
CHRISTIAN Voice lunatic Stephen “Birdshit” Green has finally responded to a recent article in the Daily Mail, which exposed him as violent, dictatorial wife-beater. “No, no, no. They got it all wrong. She was violent one”, is the gist of a piece he has just posted on his recently-launched blog. Firstly, I never once had [...]
Jerusalem is an overwhelming city. In the tradition of absurdist thought, nothing is truly meaningful, and any meaning has to be somewhat arbitrarily imposed onto the world. Jerusalem poses a significant empirical challenge to this notion: every stone of every street bursts with historical significance. It is overwhelming for the psyche to become aware of [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
