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CNN has a nice in-depth video interview with writer/biologist Richard Dawkins. It's definitely worth your time if you care about scient...

Something appears to be wrong with religious morality. If we were to make an assessment from the following recent news headlines, we might...

There's a point where religious morality gets so completely twisted that it becomes the epitome of pure evil. Take North Carolina Pa...

The Book of Leviticus is a doozy. Certainly an apologetic, with a little bit of shoehorning, can make it seem not so bad. It was, after all...

I'm not much of a joiner. I have a hard time affiliating with organizations whose policies or ideologies I can't fully embrace. I ...

Recently, over at Professor  Jerry Coyne 's blog , there was a discussion about a female pastor in South Carolina who had abandoned her ...

Over at Huffington Post , Rabbi Adam Jacobs tries to make a case that everyone, regardless of what they tell you (or what they think they b...

A recent post about the suicide of Jamie Hubley , a 17-year-old gay Ottawa teen, sparked a debate about the role of religion in anti-LGBT bu...

Frank Turek wants to make something clear. The Religious Right doesn't want a theocracy. It just wants its Christian morality enshrin...

Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape, answers quest...

A new study reveals that college students who believe in a merciful, caring god are more likely to cheat than those who believe in a wrathf...

Do a Google News search for "Ten Commandments" at any time , and you will find hundreds of articles about dozens of flaps over the...