Three guilty in Md. cult trial, starvation of toddler

By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer Ben Nuckols, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 2, 6:25 pm ET

BALTIMORE – The leader of a household described as a religious cult was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday along with two of her followers for starving a 1-year-old boy to death because he did not say [...]

Earthquake in Chile: God’s Wrath

Revelations 6: 12 He opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred…

At last count, the 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile today had killed almost 300 people. This, one must assume, is because they or their ancestors obviously did something that angered God. We know this because, in the wake of the Haitian [...]

Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ

(CNN) — Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had [...]

China

I am pleased to find out that somewhere in Beijing there are Chinese students learning English by reading The Heathen’s Guide in class.

Minarets and Mayhem

Minarets are causing a lot of flack in countries like Switzerland and Germany these days, and rightly so.  A referendum in Switzerland actually banned the construction of these Muslim spires, citing their “non-Swiss” architecture as reason. While I fully endorse anything that bans religious architecture– be it a Muslim spire or a Catholic basilica–I understand [...]

Muslim and Atheists band together

Gotta love a story like this one…
By The Associated Press The Associated Press – Wed Feb 3, 1:35 pm ET
LANCASTER, Calif. –

A national Muslim group and an atheist organization are condemning comments by Mayor R. Rex Parris that the city is “growing a Christian community.”

Parris made [...]

What Happens When We Die: An Atheist’s Explanation

All I’ve ever seen and learned tells me that I will eventually disintegrate into a trillion bits of electricity that will eventually dissipate and becomes worm food.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE HEATHEN

Quoted from “The Heathen’s Guide to World Religions”

Welcome to The Heathen’s Guide

He told me: “Religious services are for little blue-haired old women. They’re not about truth or what’s real. They’re there to make scared people feel better.”

A ‘Hail Mary’ Pass: Vatican Welcomes Anglicans into Catholic Church

There is something coming that scares the Hell out of the fire-and-brimstone crowd: Competition.

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