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Why Florida's School Prayer Bill is a Bad Idea

February 3rd, 2012

On the same day as the Washington state senate votes on a bill to legalize gay marriage, the Florida senate wants to legalize prayer in public school classrooms.

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“Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus” Video Sparks Furore

January 20th, 2012

Just two days after it was posted on Youtube, the video had racked up over 2 million views and now has over 15 million. The number of comments now totals over 30,000.

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Why Should Church and State Be Kept Separate?

November 16th, 2011

By now many of us are familiar with the right-wing argument that religion and government are inextricably intertwined, that the two have always mixed and can never be completely separated.

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Does Reading the Bible Make People More Liberal?

October 27th, 2011

Frequent Bible-reading can make people more liberal, posits a Baylor University doctoral candidate in his master's thesis, contradicting commonly-held stereotypes about liberals and conservatives.

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Christian Professor: “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?”

October 15th, 2011

A speech titled "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" addresses the conflict between Christian theology and the potential discovery of life on other planets. The speech asks, if Jesus exists, did he die for aliens?

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"Occupy Wall Street" Draws Religious Progressives

October 12th, 2011

Typically religion has been absent from left-wing protests, but the Occupy Wall Street movement has been characterized by an unusually vociferous religious contingent.

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The God Particle Revisited

October 4th, 2011

Physicists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have made some discoveries that could rattle the world of physics as we know it. What is the God Particle?

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Alabama Town to Criminals: Jail, or Church

September 28th, 2011

Mixing religion and government is nothing new in the United States--it happens all the time--but a recent case in the rural state of Alabama is particularly noteworthy for the blatant way in which it violates the United States Constitution. Many of our own Uni

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Reply from President Obama

October 20th, 2009

We received a response from the Whitehouse to a letter we sent back in June. Here's what he said: "Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I appreciate your perspective. Every American deserves equal protection..."

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