Political Islam in Decline?
In a lengthy piece in the October 13th, 2013 edition of the Jerusalem Post entitled “Has Islamism Peaked in the Middle East?”, Ariel Ben Solomon asks the question of whether Islamism as a political...
View ArticleD. M. Murdock, AKA Acharya S., banned on Facebook
According to D. M. Murdock, AKA Acharya S., she made an effort to expose religious child sexual abuse with a vivid picture of what happens to little girls during a “virginity test”. Facebook did not...
View ArticleWhy Do I have to pay a Televangelist to Pray for Me?
I have always wondered why I have to pay someone to pray for me. Does God charge a fee to his children for them to get his blessings? Or Am I condemned going to Hell just because I do not give to a...
View ArticleSo Help Me…God?
“One nation, under God.” That simple phrase has been a bone of contention between atheists, agnostics, Christian leaders and historians whose children stand, every day, reciting the pledge of...
View ArticleWomen Driving in Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia recently, there was a massive protest about the ban on women driving. One of the firm beliefs of the kingdom in Saudi Arabia is that women should not drive. They are also not supposed...
View ArticleIs God Causing Suicide?
Recently The Blaze explored the idea that religion is damaging to children. This is based on the reaction of Atheists to the suicide of a young girl who was missing her father. The concept being...
View ArticleWhat Hawaii's new marriage equality means for the gay rights movement
According to advocate.com, as of October, 30, 2013, Hawaii Senate approved marriage equality. In other words, religious institutions are allowed but not required to marry same-sex couples. However,...
View ArticleNo need to request help from God
The phrase 'So help me God' is the closing line to most oaths in the United States, from the Presidential Oath of Office to taking the witness stand in the lowest city court. The usage of the phrase,...
View ArticleA Cracker and Juice for Divorcees
Pope Francis is taking a step back from issues such as homosexuality to focus on a new mission. He has made a new pledge to help remove the ban on Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics. With...
View ArticleWhat Genesis Says to an African
Isn't this Interpretation of the Creation Story the Missing Piece of the Puzzle in the West? The resolution to renounce the almost immortal assumption that the Genesis creation story was intended to...
View ArticleWhat "War on Christmas"?
I’m not sure when it all began, but the annual diatribes from a segment of the Religious Right about the so-called War on Christmas have become as predictable a part of the season as are Salvation Army...
View ArticleHow did Allah plan on protecting His book?
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: it was never Allah’s intention to use His omnipotent power to guard the Quran from corruption, nor was it His intent to imbue succeeding generations of...
View ArticleCan there be women imams in Islam?
With the recent election of Pope Francis, the question of women priests has resurfaced with the hope that new pope would be more receptive to the idea. But, while Christendom has received the bulk of...
View ArticleHow We Should Envisage Genuine Christianity!
In Was Church God’s idea? we read a comment by Mark Winter on which he laments the obviously regrettable fact that ‘what we read in the Bible in the accounts of the Acts, the Epistles, and early...
View ArticleWhat Sank the GMO Labeling Initiative in WA State? What’s Next?
by Charles Mish Last November, a slim majority of Washington voters were persuaded that they did not need to know about the GMO ingredients in their food. How could an issue with a 66 percent approval...
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