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Yom Kippur, the Pope and My Reluctant Secularism
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Sometimes the easiest questions are the hardest ones to answer. Like: What religion are you? I had reason to think about this issue the other day during a routine doctor's appointment at a local London hospital. As we were winding up, the doctor turned to me and asked: "Oh, yes, and what religion are you? It could be relevant to your treatment." He was holding a clipboard and a pen, ready to tick the appropriate box on his chart. I paused, as if he'd asked me the solution to Fermat's Last Theorem. "Umm . . . well . . . I used to be Catholic." I heard myself say. "But my husband's ...
Pope Compares Atheism to Nazism, Draws Fire
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Sept. 17) -- Pope Benedict XVI has been accused by secularists of making "a terrible libel" during his first papal visit to Britain, after he appeared to associate atheism with the crimes of the Nazi regime during World War II. In a speech to Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Royal Family in Edinburgh, Scotland, the pope noted that the "Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews," had resulted in the Holocaust. He then asked the increasingly non-believing British public to "reflect on the sobering lessons of ...
Opinion: 10 Good Reasons Not to Burn the Quran
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- Dear Dr. Terry Jones, Pastor, Dove World Outreach Center: On a warm late summer day at Gainesville Guitar Academy, a 15-minute drive from your church, children plunk out the sound of their favorite songs on guitars. Yesterday at the music school where I teach violin, I also listened to a student play guitar until his soft chords were drowned out by the shouts of demonstrators marching past our school. Our music school is in an almost entirely Muslim country, and the marchers were protesting your announced intention to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11. As a fellow American, ...
The Evolution of Richard Dawkins, the Rock Star of Neo-Atheism
By David Gibson - Politics DailyIs Richard Dawkins getting soft? It's hard to believe that the leading exponent of a brash new school of pugnacious atheism would somehow, miraculously, transform into the soul of charity. But consider the evidence: Dawkins says, for one thing, that he is tired of rehashing the forceful -- many would say withering -- arguments against religion he made in his best-selling book, "The God Delusion," and he objects to his frequent portrayal as a gratuitous provocateur. "I'm not really that at all," he told me during a recent stopover in New York to promote his latest book, "The Greatest Show on ...
Atheism's Rebirth -- Just in Time for Christmas
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyFirst, there were the summer camps. Then came the de-baptisms. Next up? A best-selling book entitled "The Atheist's Guide to Christmas." Is it just me, or does atheism seem to be enjoying a renaissance?At first, I thought it was just a U.K. thing. It started last January when a non-profit group, The Atheist Bus Campaign, went on-line to solicit donations to equip 30 buses in Great Britain with the slogan: "God Probably Doesn't Exist: So Stop Worrying and Enjoy Life." Its founders were fed up with the "Jesus Said" billboards that ran on British buses in June 2008 (apparently condemning ...
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