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Supreme Court Rejects Church’s Challenge to Shutdown Order
A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a church in California to block enforcement of state restrictions on attendance at religious services. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G.… →
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Religion Continues to Spread Pandemic and Disease
86% of choir members got infected with COVID-19 after church practice: report By Leonardo Blair A new report from the Skagit County Public Health Department in Washington state published by the CDC Friday, shows how quickly the coronavirus spread after a choir practice became a “superspreader event” for the disease that infected 86% of attending… →
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Calls to seal off ultra-Orthodox areas add to Israel’s virus tensions
Purposely ignorant, fundamentalist religions, continue to spread disease and death throughout the word. Rules enforcement highlights problem of getting message across to minority community Oliver Holmes and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem It wasn’t a typical police operation. Two Israeli officers were to go undercover, although not posing as drug dealers or arms traffickers. For this… →
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Religion Continues at Forefront in The Spread of Pandemic
Messiah Will Come by Passover, Says Israel Health Minister “I am sure Messiah will come by Passover and save us the same way God saved us during the Exodus” Via Israel Today Staff Israel Health Ministry Yaakov Litzman has been criticized for what many call his unprofessional handling of the coronavirus crisis. But in a… →
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A Third of All COVID-19 Cases in one CA County Can Be Traced Back to Churches
By Hemant Mehta What role is religion playing in the spread of COVID-19? According to officials in Sacramento County, California, roughly a third of all coronavirus cases are tied to a religious organization — a church holding services even when social distancing guidelines are in effect. Speaking Wednesday morning, Beilenson said more than 100 of… →
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The Wages of Delusion; Virus Denying Pastor Dies Of COVID-19
Christian pastor who thought COVID-19 is just ‘mass hysteria’ among the first in Virginia to die from virus By Sky Palma One of the first deaths in Virginia from coronavirus was a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist” who fell ill while on a trip to New Orleans with his wife. As the Friendly Atheist’s Bo Gardiner points… →
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“If I don’t listen to my imaginary friend, why the fuck should I listen to yours?”
Watch: Mr. Robot Nails Religion by Michael Stones Elliott delivers a beautiful anti-religion rant in the latest episode of Mr. Robot. In an Adderall fueled fugue, and six days of no sleep, Elliot is slipping into what he calls a “fatal error.” The bad trip culminates in a beautiful rant in front of his church… →
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Why “Religious Freedom” Is A Public Health Menace
Religious Freedom A Major Health Hazard The Trump administration – spurred on by the Alliance Defending Freedom – wants to hand religious medical professionals the right to refuse treatment in the name of ‘religious freedom’. Our newest Australian PM is promising to prioritise legislation to extend ‘religious freedom’ here. This could be disastrous for all… →
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Hillsong Church founder under police investigation
Hillsong Church founder under police investigation via Garry McNab © AAP Image/Paul Miller In 2014, Brian Houston gave evidence before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse. Brian Houston, the founder of the Hillsong Church, is under investigation by New South Wales police over his handling of the sex… →
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Evil Jesus, History’s Most Unpleasant, Failed Messiah
Evil Jesus, History’s Most Unpleasant, Failed Messiah What words come from the mouths of the religious when they speak about Jesus? Loving? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? The reality is, the Bible reveals Jesus’s primary qualities quite differently: jealous, self-serving, arrogant, petty, maniacal, irrational, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive—and worse! “Jesus was a moral lunatic who intended to return… →
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The Arabic Translation of The God Delusion Has Reportedly Been Downloaded 10 Million Times
The Arabic Translation of The God Delusion Has Reportedly Been Downloaded 10 Million Times by Terry Firma I’m not sure about the legality, but if Richard Dawkins isn’t bothered by the copyright ramifications, then neither am I. An unauthorized PDF translation of Dawkin’s The God Delusion, by Iraqi emigrant Bassam Al-Baghdadi, who lives in Sweden, has… →
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The Disintegrated Republican Party
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How the Vatican Manipulates the American Democratic Process
How the Vatican Manipulates the American Democratic Process By Stephen D. Mumford, DrPH Editor’s note: The following has been adapted from Chapter 4 of our chairman Dr. Stephen D. Mumford’s book, American Democracy and the Vatican: Population Growth and National Security (1984). This book is available on Kindle here. The Abortion Movement In 1980, Federal… →
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Emanations from the Human Butt Polyp Pat Robertson: Gays Will Force Christians To Like Anal Sex And, Eventually, Polyamory And Bestiality
Emanations from the Human Butt Polyp Pat Robertson: Gays Will Force Christians To Like Anal Sex And, Eventually, Polyamory And Bestiality by Curtis M. Wong Right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson tackled the recent controversy over Memories Pizza, which became Indiana’s first business to publicly declare that they won’t cater to same-sex weddings in the wake of the… →
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It’s time to fight religion: Toxic drivel, useful media idiots, and the real story about faith and violence
It’s time to fight religion: Toxic drivel, useful media idiots, and the real story about faith and violence Out of misguided notions of “tolerance,” we avert our critical gaze from blatant absurdities. We must now get real Jeffrey Tayler Richard Dawkins, Mike Huckabee, Bill Maher, Reza Aslan (Credit: Reuters/Chris Keane/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/HBO) The relentless march… →
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‘This is just insanity’: four Nobel laureates let fly over Australian science funding
‘This is just insanity’: four Nobel laureates let fly over Australian science funding Four of the nation’s most-renowned scientists have spoken to The Australian Financial Review about their concerns for Australian science and our ability to compete as an innovation economy. What Nobel prize winners Elizabeth Blackburn, Brian Schmidt, Peter Doherty and Barry Marshall had… →
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Christianity – Still Killing Humans | Linda Robertson: ‘Gay conversion therapy killed my son, Ryan’
The Christian death cult; killing its own children. Linda Robertson: ‘Gay conversion therapy killed my son, Ryan’ Saying goodbye … Linda Robertson kisses the cheek of her eldest son, Ryan, days before he died of a drug overdose. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied DEVOUT Christian Linda Robertson says her son came out to her at 12-years-old… →
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This Week in Religion: Revisionist History, the Hitler Card and Pat Robertson on Speed
This Week in Religion: Revisionist History, the Hitler Card and Pat Robertson on Speed The religious right said some more ridiculous and repellent things this week. Photo Credit: Wonderland/Flickr If you are not a big fan of U.S. history, fear not, because the State of Texas may decide to rewrite American history and make it… →
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Why Jesus Would Have Hated Most Modern Day Religion
Why Jesus Would Have Hated Most Modern Day Religion Jesus would not be a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity. The following is an excerpt from Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace… →
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Kiss me, I’m an atheist
Kiss me, I’m an atheist by Matthew Hutson@SilverJacket Nonbelievers need a new PR campaign, one that emphasizes their civic engagement Brochures and bumper stickers at the LA chapter of the Sunday Assembly, which calls itself a “godless congregation.”Jae C. Hong/AP In Pope Francis’ Christmas address, he extended a surprise olive branch to atheists. But the reach… →
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Apologists (including David Cameron) try their best to avoid pinning religious massacres on Islam
Even though England is more secular than the U.S., British Prime Ministers seem even keener than American Presidents to coddle religion—especially Islam—and to ascribe the malevolence of extreme Islamists to anything but religion. After last week’s horrific massacre in the Nairobi shopping mall, P.M. David Cameron said this: ‘These appalling terrorist attacks that take place… →
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Of Cultures Destroyed by Western Sexual Exploitation and Violent Religious Prudery
Of Cultures Destroyed by Western Sexual Exploitation and Violent Religious Prudery By Jesse Bering | In working on my latest book Perv, some of the saddest material I came across involved the stormy cross-cultural conflicts erupting between Western ideals of sex and those discovered among other “exotic” societies. The field of cultural anthropology has its own… →
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Perversions
Perversions Atheists and homosexuals were called perverts once. Why do we still see perversion where no harm is done? by Jesse Bering Reclining Boy (1913) by Egon Schiele. Leopold Foundation, Vienna. Photo by Corbis Jesse Bering is a former academic in psychology whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, Slate and The Guardian, among others.… →
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Putin’s Unholy Alliance With Orthodox Church To Persecute Gays
Putin’s Unholy Alliance With Orthodox Church To Persecute Gays by Susie Madrak Vladimir Putin is not your typical head of state. He’s a thug, and Russia is a state run by gangsters. Frank Schaeffer, who (having grown up in the bosom of the Christian right) knows a thing or two about religious hate, writes about… →
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Christian Right v Godless Liberalism: Why Do Christians Attack Godless Liberals?
Christian Right v Godless Liberalism: Why Do Christians Attack Godless Liberals? By Austin Cline, Growth of “Godless” as an Epithet for Liberals: The nature of godless liberalism can be difficult to understand because of the misuse of the label by the Christian Right. According to them, all liberals are godless because they don’t adhere to… →
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‘Sexual Jihad’ In Syria | Rise In Pregnancy
‘Sexual Jihad’ In Syria Cause Rise In Pregnancy Among Tunisian Women, Lawmaker Says By Hunter Stuart A number of Tunisian women have traveled to Syria to have sex with rebel fighters, a senior Tunisian politician said Thursday. The practice is known as “sexual jihad.” The women “are swapped between 20, 30, 100 rebels,” Interior… →
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Pastor Punishes Gay Church Member Because Other Members of the Congregation Are Bigots
Pastor Punishes Gay Church Member Because Other Members of the Congregation Are Bigots By Hemant Mehta Pastor Mark Brewer of Crosspoint Wesleyan Church in Fredericton, New Brunswick had to deal with a potential crisis this past week. One of the finest members of his church, 20-year-old Colin Briggs, had been a camp counselor and church… →
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How I, an Australian Jewish-atheist, became a German citizen
How I, an Australian Jewish-atheist, became a German citizen My identity is a conflicted mix that incorporates Judaism, atheism, anti-Zionism, Germanic traditions and Anglo-Saxon-Australian beliefs. I both routinely reject and embrace them all. Antony Loewenstein Dresden in 1945, after the Allies’ bombing. Photograph: Corbis It was hard to forgive the Nazis. The “1,000 year… →
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Blasphemy is Bullshit
Blasphemy is Bullshit It is a clear demonstration of an imaginary deity’s impotency and incapacity to do its own bidding when humans have to make edicts to defend its alleged hurt pride. Blasphemy laws are more about the insecurity of the believer than an attempt to protect a god. Any god in need of such… →