Both Barack Obama and John McCain are going after the Evangelical vote. Obama seems to have the momentum with that group, though, which is a bit of a surprise. How has John McCain responded? With a desperate campaign aimed at Christians who’ve forgotten they’re supposed to vote Republican. Laurie Kilmartin of the 23/6 parody site [...]

I’m not sure what’s going on, but I want to be a part of it: Seattle Atheists have all the Pastafaric fun. (via Evil Angela) [tags]atheist, atheism, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pastafarianism[/tags]

The right wing Heritage Foundation is blasting Obama for being so damn non-discriminatory about his faith-based initiatives plan: … even worse, Obama’s plan says that when a faith-based organization takes federal dollars, it would lose its ability to preserve its faith-based character through maintaining hiring standards consistent with its mission. It could be forced to [...]

After the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey was released, we discovered that 21% of atheists believe in God and one in ten of us pray once a week. Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason and Freethinkers, doesn’t doubt the veracity of the numbers. She offers up her thoughts on all this: [...]