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“Hobby Lobby Appreciation” begs question: whose religious freedom is at stake?
Saturday, January 5, 2013 was to be Hobby Lobby Appreciation Day, supported by conservative religious groups and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. The timing is apropos, since January is also...
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Religious freedom survey reveals outsized Evangelical angst
Data from a survey released by the Barna Group on January 18th suggests that Evangelicals view religious freedom differently than other Americans and that they are far more likely than others to see...
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Why be a Skeptic? Hint: It isn’t for the popularity
What motivates a Skeptic to question even the most popular assumptions about our world and how it works? Are Skeptics just nay-sayers who spend all their time seeking out new things not to believe in?...
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C.S. Lewis vs. Sigmund Freud: A Skeptical review of 'Freud's Last Session'
Freud’s Last Session brings to life an imaginary conversation between two 20th century intellectual titans: Christian author and apologist C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis....
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Outing of ‘Ex-gay’ leader Matt Moore underscores painful dilemma
An Evangelical Christian author, who promotes the doctrine that gays should not accept their homosexuality, acknowledged to the Christian Post Thursday that he had recently posted a profile to Grindr,...
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Caught in a falsehood, Breitbart doubles down on Friends of Hamas story
Conservative blog Breitbart.com has been caught in an embarrassing falsehood, and its response today is to claim that the evidence against them is actually a vindication.On February 20, New York Daily...
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Rick Warren wisdom leads to Twitter titters
Pastor Rick Warren, the author of “A Purpose-Driven Life,” has invited unintentional humor once again, this time over his practice of tweeting religious wisdom for the masses. According to Twitaholic,...
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Evangelist Ray Comfort calls for support against atheist onslaught
Evangelist Ray Comfort, who once declared the banana to be “the Atheist’s Nightmare” (see video), said in a news release Monday that he is being overrun on FaceBook, and he is calling for support from...
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Why Pascal's Wager is a fool's game
Believers often say that Skeptics have no values, or that atheists have chosen to disbelieve so that they can be free of the burden of obedience to a god. Contrary to these popular misunderstandings,...
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The History Channel's 'the Bible' is good drama and bad precedent
Sunday night, the History Channel debuted the first two episodes of a fictional miniseries called “The Bible.” While the show was entertaining, it was a classic “bait-and-switch” scam, but only if a...
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Illinois city trades barbs with anti-abortion group over ‘misleading' lawsuit
An anti-abortion group and an Illinois city traded news releases March 8th over a federal lawsuit the group has filed against the city. The anti-abortion group, known as The Life Center (TLC) claims...
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Religious conservatives outraged at 'homosexual infiltration' of CPAC
As the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) draws to a close at the Gaylord Convention Center today, religious conservatives have begun to express outrage at what one right-wing alarmist...
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Suspected gunman Evan Ebel spent teens in third world 'behavioral programs'
As Colorado Governor Hickenlooper defended the parents of suspected gunman Evan Ebel on Saturday, a blog maintained by Ebel’s mother raised new questions about the background of the man who once...
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Who exactly is 'celebrating' Rick Warren's pain?
Sunday morning, the Christian Post website published an article mentioning the 'vitriol' heaped upon Rick Warren after his son Matthew’s suicide. The ever-credulous Huffington Post also picked up the...
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Miss. schools sued over evangelism had invited local churches to 'take dominion'
The Mississippi school district sued Thursday over a series of mandatory evangelical assemblies has a history of giving special access to local evangelical churches, including the one whose...
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FRC, Fox and Breitbart strike another blow for hysteria
On May 1, “May Day,” Fox News and Breitbart.com stirred up another round of fact-resistant internet hysteria. The demon-of-the-week was Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedoom Foundation....
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Deconstructing hysteria: how the ongoing misstatements of military policy began
On Sunday, BizPacReview continued spreading the hysteria begun last week when Fox News, Breitbartcom, and the Family Research Council distorted the facts around military policy on religious...
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Sexual assault news follows warnings by 'anti-Christian' military experts
Military sexual assault revelations on Tuesday and Wednesday seemed to vindicate at least part of the message delivered to U.S. military leaders on April 23 by Larry Wilkerson, Mikey Weinstein, and...
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Deconstructing hysteria: one degree of separation from FRC
On May 7 and May 8, Ken Klukowski of Breitbart.com posted three more articles attacking the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) or the U.S. military over the religious neutrality policy. The...
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Deconstructing hysteria: the witch hunt rumor cycle
On Sunday, May 19, Tim Graham of the Media Research Center(MRC) continued the conservative attacks on military civil libertarians by likening Sally Quinn of the Washington Post to King Herod. Graham’s...
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