Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, March 1st, 2010
"A CNN article published Thursday says a new study links atheism and high IQ. Other indicators of high intelligence include liberalism, the tendency to have only one sexual partner (in males, at least) and vegetarianism. No huge surprises here, but it's a welcome reminder that forward-thinking folks leave superstition ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
"Polls show that the ranks of atheists are growing. The American Religious Identification Survey, a major study released last month, found that those who claimed “no religion” were the only demographic group that grew in all 50 states in the last 18 year"
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Americans are increasingly turning away from many denominations, with the percentage who do not claim a religious identity nearly doubling since 1990, to 15%, according to a national survey.
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Fox News transcript from "America's Election HQ," June 5, 2008 over a billboard that promotes atheism:
MEGYN KELLY, CO-HOST : "Don't believe in God? You're not the alone." That's what it says on a 20-by-60 foot sign sitting above one of the busiest roads in the country. Many people now ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
"The military's virulent religious intolerance could be eradicated tomorrow with swift sanctions against transgressors. Instead, it's winked at, and those caught proselytizing suffer no consequence."
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
It's an old saying (from WWII) that there are no atheists in foxholes. It turns out this isn't true. And there have been more than a couple public retractions to atheist soldiers over this remark by journalists. This quip is really nothing more than folksy bigotry against people without beliefs ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
The current edition of the New Yorker magazine has up a story about endogenous retroviruses in the genomes of humans and other species. Although researchers have known about such non-functional retroviral 'fossils' in the human genome for some time, the large amount of recent genomic data underscores just how pervasive ...
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A watchdog group that promotes religious freedom in the U.S. military accused senior officers on Monday using their rank and influence to coerce soldiers and airmen into adopting evangelical Christianity.
Such proselytizing, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has created a core of "radical" Christians within the ...
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
The following are excerpts from the article: "Common Misconceptions About Atheists and Atheism" by David Gleeson for the American Chronicle, Aug 10, 2006.
1. Atheism is the belief that no gods exist.
The word 'atheism' comes from the Greek prefix 'a', meaning without, and 'theist', meaning having a belief in a supernatural ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2005
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President Bush told two high-ranking Palestinian officials that he had been told by God to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and then create a Palestinian state to bring peace to the Middle East, they recall during a documentary on Middle East peace that airs next week in Britain.
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