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Sam Harris (the atheist, not the original Star Search Winner) vs. Rick Warren, a Christian pastor.

Religious nutbag on a TV show goes wacko about darksiders. The stereotype trough overfloweth on this one. Sweet irony at the end of the clip.

Edge.org has an interview with Elaine Pagels on the Politics of Christianity. I wrote about her and her new book, Beyond Belief, which is about the lost Gospel of Thomas and the politicization of the Gospels, previously.
I am absolutely fascinated with this material. Unless you are in Seminary or a student of Theology, you [...]

Mel Gibson’s project already disappoints me. His attention to authenticity, such as the dialogue being in Aramaic, seems rather misplaced when he still insists on using Caucasian, and not Middle Eastern, actors to portray the main players. Religious worship is not only part faith, but also to a certain extent, a cult of personality. Imagine [...]

Another bumper sticker to add to the collection: “Dog is my Co-Pilot”. Northern California representin’.

The unearthing of an ossuary from a private collection in Israel may be the first archeological proof that Jesus (Yeshua) physically existed. The inscription on the side of the box, written in Aramaic, reads: ‘James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus’. Theyblinked linked to the story in the NYTimes. There ’s [...]

A religious scholar from Pennsylvania State believes the next Christian center
will emerge
in the Southern Hemisphere.
“The Christianity practiced in Africa, Latin America, and Asia
tends to be much more rigidly conservative and traditional than that of the
North, and its practitioners are often guided by a strong belief in the power
of the supernatural to directly shape their [...]

I find discussions of the type linked to by theyblinked extremely interesting and am pleasantly surprised at the room for this type of debate in such forums. I am of the skeptic variety, more in awe of the mystery of human behavior and why we think and act the way we do as a species [...]