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The month of October kicks off "Respect Life Month" in the Catholic Church, and with the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled to hear the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case on December 1, Christians across the country have begun praying in earnest for the case that could overturn Roe v. Wade.

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello again! If the past couple of years have taught us anything, it’s that disruptions to the normal order of things are, themselves, pretty normal. This newsletter has been on an unplanned hiatus due to a number of those disr ...

September 30 marks International Blasphemy Rights Day (IBRD), which the Center for Inquiry has observed since its beginning.1 IBRD celebrates the right of authors, artists, and dissidents to treat religious matters as they see fit, even to the point of offending believers.

  Mormonism must be done away with by the thousand influences of civilization, by education, by the elevation of the people. —Robert Green Ingersoll, 1884* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has come a long way since the “Great Agnostic” could recommend to a newspaper reporter ...

Just a couple of years ago, an objective observer might be forgiven for concluding that religious Humanism was dying—or at least that it was in a very bad way.

Global oligarchy, forces of darkness, and the spirit of Antichrist By In "The Kingdom of Darkness Encircles North America," Vishal Mangalwadi, founder-president of BOMI/Revelation Movement and author of "The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization!" wrote that his third visit to North America opened his eyes to the magnitude and the power of massive forces of darkness facing the faithful. Because darkness has deeply penetrated much of the body of the...

It has taken over twenty years, but Congress is finally holding hearings to limit the impact of the toxic Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) on civil rights. Two bills have been introduced in Congress that would carve back RFRA’s destructive reach—the Equality Act and the Do No Harm Act. Both focus on curtailing the capacity … This article is available for free to all. In 2011, Pitzer College offered the first—and still the only—college major in secular studies. The prime mover...

It has taken over twenty years, but Congress is finally holding hearings to limit the impact of the toxic Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) on civil rights. Two bills have been introduced in Congress that would carve back RFRA’s destructive reach—the Equality Act and the Do No Harm Act. Both focus on curtailing the capacity of RFRA to promote discrimination against LGBTQ persons, but the Do No Harm Act further limits the harm that RFRA engenders against the vulnerable, including chil...

Only 6% of Americans Have a Biblical Worldview Thursday, May 13, 2021 @ 11:45 AM Everyone has an overall perspective from which the world is seen and interpreted. It’s called a “worldview.” The Cultural Research Center (CRC) at Arizona Christian University, interviewed a nationally representative sample of 2,000 adults to determine what worldview Americans hold. It’s called The American Worldview Inventory (AWVI) 2021. The results are startling…and convicting. Though 65% of American a...