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Building a Temple to Atheism
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Beliefnet Staff
When I say temple, you think religious place of worship right? When I say atheist, you think one that believes there is no God. Stay with me now, when I say religion, don’t you think about the worship of God? Before this blog becomes a full blown say what you are thinking game, let me…
Texas, Alabama, Arizona groups ignore threats from Wisconsin atheists
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Thousands of Texans, including the state attorney general and the governor, presidential hopeful Rick Perry, have sent a clear message to Wisconsin atheists who enjoy intimidating small towns into removing nativity scenes. The message is the same from an American Legion post in Montana, a city council in Pennsylvania and a federal judge in Arizona: Go home!…
Atheists embracing faith for their kids
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Faith and family are so tightly linked in American society that “even some of society’s least religious people find religion to be important in their private lives,” says researcher Elaine Howard Ecklund from Rice University. Despite their personal non-belief, reports the website Futurity, a surprising number of atheist scientist parents told Ecklund that they often…
Pretending to be Jesus renews skeptic’s faith
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You’ve seen the extraordinary paintings of Jesus’ life. They’re in bookstores and magazines. They’re all over the Internet. They’re the work of artist Liz Lemon Swindle. They’ve won worldwide acclaim – even compared to Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who refused to paint Jesus with halos or holier-than-thou poses. Swindle paints a very human…
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