Washington (CNN) – A prominent atheist group is using next month’s Democratic National Convention to take aim at the presidential candidates’ religion, putting up billboards targeting Mormonism and Christianity in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Our political system is rife with religion and it depends too much on religion and not enough on substance,” said David Silverman, president of American Atheists, sponsor of… Read more →
Some years ago, my wife, Ruth, was reading the draft of a book I was writing. When she finished a section describing the terrible downward spiral of our nation’s moral standards and the idolatry of worshiping false gods such as technology and sex, she startled me by exclaiming, “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and… Read more →
(multimedia) Son of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, founder of American Atheists, speaks out. After becoming a Christian, his atheist mother said, “One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him (her son) entirely and completely for now and all times… he is beyond human forgiveness.”
(multimedia) First lady Michelle Obama makes a passionate plea to black churchgoers to become more engaged in politics.
If you believe in UFOs, you may be in better company than you think. Thirty-six percent of Americans — about 80 million people if the survey applied to the whole country — believe UFOs exist, and a tenth believe they have spotted one, a new National Geographicpoll shows. Seventeen percent said they did not believe in UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects, and… Read more →
(multimedia) Tyler Clementi’s parents, Jane and Joe Clementi, and his older brother James told Rock Center exclusively that Tyler was struggling with many issues before his death. But they believe Ravi’s decision to spy on Tyler during a sexual encounter with another man in his dorm room played a role in the suicide. They also say they have changed their… Read more →
(multimedia) Congress has pumped millions of dollars into abstinence only programs in the US. The ongoing battle for sex education has law makers convinced that abstinence is the only way to go. The US has the highest birthrate among the developed nations, so is abstinence really working or should kids be allowed to have safe sex? Valerie Huber with the National… Read more →
Sci-fi fans are eagerly awaiting Sir Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a quasi-prequel to his 1979 blockbuster film, “Alien” that lands in theaters Friday, June 8. In the film, an Earth-based crew is sent on a long journey to a near-by star system to explore a planet believed to host an advanced civilization. The film asks not just how realistic such a… Read more →
(CNSNews.com) (multimedia)- Having organized 43 plaintiffs—including the archdioceses of New York and Washington and the University of Notre Dame—to file 12 different lawsuits against the Obama administration last Monday alleging the administration is violating the religious freedom of Catholics, the Catholic bishops of the United States are now preparing Catholics for what may be the most massive campaign of civil… Read more →
While the American public clearly recognizes the problem with Dan Savage attacking Christian high school kids as “pansy-assed” for walking out on his anti-religious diatribe, the media either ignores the story entirely, or maintains that what he’s done is just fine. Instead of focusing on Savage’s bullying behavior, they’re focusing instead on whether he’s justified in his criticisms of the… Read more →
