“It’s those hardcore true believers, addicted to believing they’re always on god’s side. Those are the ones making planet Earth so complicated for the rest of us — be you secular, aetheist, or religious. And truth be told, the fires of most of our conflicts today are fanned most ferociously by the fundamentalists wings of […]
An “ex-gay” Christian Ministry, Exodus International, has shut down and International President Alan Chambers has released a public apology for the pain and suffering the ministry has caused the gay community during the course of the last 37 years: I Am Sorry June 19, 2013 By Alan Chambers Three years ago, Leslie and I began […]
Nick Watt from ABC Nightline recently spent a weekend with the Westboro Baptist Church. The decision to spend a weekend with Westboro was a difficult one. My ABC News bosses and I had cooked up an idea that I should spend weekends with slivers of American society that, as a recent immigrant, I found puzzling […]
Pope Francis had a brush with the biker fraternity on Sunday, as he blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders who were celebrating the motorbike maker’s 110th anniversary with a parade in Rome.
Several House Republicans slammed a proposal to provide secular/atheist chaplains in the military claiming it would be a mockery. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ) proposed an amendment to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act this past Wednesday during meetings of the House Armed Services Committee that would allow humanists and other members of moral cultural groups […]