From the New York Daily News:
Tom Cruise is named in a $250 million federal lawsuit that is using the RICO statute against the Church of Scientology. Ex-Scientologist Peter Letterese, a longtime critic of the church, filed suit in Southern District Court in Florida on July 15 alleging, among other things, that members of the church […]
It seems as of late that Atheist news has been experiencing a bit of a lull. It’s been a little tough sniffing out the really funny and interesting from the banal, but this week, we forced ourselves a bit and went all out to bring you 40 minutes of quality programming. This week, we cover […]
From BBC News:
Diners have been flocking to a restaurant in northern Nigeria to see pieces of meat which the owner says are inscribed with the name of Allah.
What looks like the Arabic word for God and the name of the prophet Muhammad were discovered in pieces of beef by a diner in Birnin Kebbi.
He was […]
I’ve never been able to figure out why religion and guns go hand and hand so often. From KOCO.com:
An Oklahoma church canceled a controversial gun giveaway for teenagers at a weekend youth conference.
Windsor Hills Baptist had planned to give away a semiautomatic assault rifle until one of the event’s organizers was unable to attend.The […]
We talked about those penis thief sorcerers on an earlier radio show (Jake doesn’t label stuff properly so I couldn’t tell you which one off-hand). Now here’s a really in-depth article from Harper’s on the subject so you can understand what the dilly is with that whole situation:
According to Ilechukwu, an epidemic of penis theft […]
From MSNBC.com
Demonstrations on the town square show how divided people are over the school board’s decision to fire a science teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs in the classroom and burning crosses on students’ arms.
John Freshwater, 52, was fired last month after an outside consulting firm released a report concluding that he taught […]