A few weeks ago, I was contacted by some people associated with Willow Creek Community Church. (Willow Creek is the most influential mega-church in the country, according to The Church Report.)

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Here’s the video!

[tags]Stephen Colbert, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion[/tags]

On tonight’s episode of the Colbert Report, the guest will be Richard Dawkins, talking about his book “The God Delusion.”  Go watch!

[tags]Richard Dawkins, The Colbert Report, The God Delusion[/tags]

This article is just plain disturbing. It describes the Jain ritual of fasting and how some followers in India take it to its extreme. Jainism is my family’s religion, and the whole fasting thing is part of what drove me away from the religion (and all religion) in the first place.

Granted, in America, I’ve never heard of Jains fasting until death, but there are many Jains who fast for eight days straight (boiled water being one exception) during the holy season, which is scary enough.

If you’re not familiar with Jainism, try making sense of this paragraph from the article:
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One of the more interesting dilemmas I read about yesterday: A girl at a Christian college deciding whether or not she should come out as an atheist.

[tags]Christian, college, atheist[/tags]

Last weekend, I was speaking in Wisconsin. Before I went, I was also invited to join a small group from a local church during the same time– they were going to do some volunteer work and asked if I wanted to join them. I couldn’t go because of the previous engagement, but the idea of what the group was doing sounded interesting.
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A columnist from The Journal Times (Racine, WI), Mike Moore, wrote a nice article about a speech I made just outside Milwaukee over the weekend.  The article can be found on the paper’s website as well as Moore’s blog.

[tags]Mike Moore, The Journal Times, Racine, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, atheist, eBay[/tags]

Amber Mangum, a seventh-grader from Greenbelt, Maryland, was “threatened with discipline” at her school. What was her offense? Reading her Bible at lunch.
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Ben Franks is the Democrat running for a seat on the 6th Court of Appeals in Texas. Now the Republicans are using his supposed atheism against him as reason alone not to vote for him.
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