challenging religious privilege in public life

Yearly Archives: 2014

This Woman Was Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison Because She Had A Miscarriage

The abortion laws in El Salvador are nothing less than barbaric. You can be sentenced to jail for two years for having or assisting with…

An Arizona Professor Is Being Mobbed By Christian Conservatives For Daring To Show This Slide In Class

A biology teacher who describes himself as “an open-minded skeptic” opened a discussion on evolution versus creationism with an image...

Pat Robertson Calls For Establishing Biblical Law As The Law Of The Land

During his 700 Club program Pat Robertson has called for replacing the Constitution with the Bible as the law of the land.

Brain-machine interfaces as a challenge to the “moment of singularity”

We cannot flee the challenge of delaying or avoiding Ray Kurzweil's prediction. We must embrace it. That is our responsibility.

Former Nun’s New Book Tries To Exonerate Religion Of Crimes She Blames On Secular Governments

My position, as an admitted atheist, would be to un-fog our lives with fantasy and to look with clear eyes at the facts. Too many…

Rick Perry: Inequality Not a Problem Because Bible Predicts Poor People

Outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry shrugged off wealth inequality, saying the Bible showed poverty could never be eliminated.

NSSM 200, the Vatican, and the World Population Explosion

In 1995, Pope John Paul II made public his encyclical letter entitled Evangelicum Vitae, which assailed both abortion and contraception.

Optimism and Innovation Could Be Derailed By Religion, Culture and Racism

Having been involved in the family planning field since 1965, I have observed the resistance first hand in trying to create readily available contraceptive...

Can a Collapse of Global Civilization be Avoided?

Today for the first time, humanity’s global civilization is threatened with collapse by an array of environmental problems.

Bill Donohue: Atheists Are Unhappy, Die Early, and Are Disproportionately Insane

Donohue added that he was only talking about the “militant” atheists… like the folks at American Atheists who put up billboards.

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