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Atheists Top the Religious in Religious Knowledge

A recent Pew Survey on religious knowledge has found that atheists do better on a battery of religious knowledge questions than Jews, Christians, Mormons—indeed, anybody else. Out of 32 questions, atheists, on average, managed to answer about 21 of the questions … Continue reading

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Missionaries knocked on my door, and I was not saved

Last night, two Mormon missionaries knocked on my door, and I talked to them for about half an hour. How depressing. Their take-home message: read their book. It’s really good. And if you listen with an open heart, God will tell … Continue reading

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A Little Reminder of Mitt Romney’s Willingness to Scapegoat Atheists and Agnostics for the Purposes of Uniting the Republican Party

Mitt Romney—in a speech to Republicans on December 6, 2007—tried to drive secular people like me to America’s margins as the invisible and dehumanized others. I bring this up now, in 2010, because Romney is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination … Continue reading

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15%

That’s the percentage of Americans, according to the Huffington Post today, who are religious NON-BELIEVERS. Those who fall under the designation “non-believer” represent a larger slice of the American population than those who call themselves “African American” or “Hispanic.” Money quote: A … Continue reading

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Richard Nixon Would Have Voted YES on Proposition 8: Hear Richard Nixon Express His Disgust with San Francisco Gay People Here

The clip below is yet another good reason to vote NO on Proposition 8 (because a homophobe like Richard Nixon would have voted YES):

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