US Troops Being Force-Fed Christianity

A watchdog group claims that members of far-right-wing evangelical Christian groups are having an undue influence on the U.S. military.

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Medical Marijuana User Commits Suicide After Long Being Denied Its Use

Without the relief that marijuana delivered to her, Robin Prosser killed herself at home last week. She was 50.Prosser suffered from an autoimmune disease that gave her allergic and dangerous reactions to most pharmaceutical painkillers. So she turned to marijuana. When that was no longer available she had no where else to turn.

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Atheist Women ROCK!

A great nod to all of those atheist women out there, past & present. thanks msginca!

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Birth Control Allowed at Maine Middle School

The Portland school board on Wednesday approved a measure allowing middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents.

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Sapient pwns Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron

Yes, the RRS vs. WOTM debate on ABC's NightLine is old news. It happened back in May. I remember joining the fray on ABC's message boards, teaming up with another atheist, a perfect stranger, who called himself Former Follier. Ah, the memories. Little did I know that one day, WOTM Watchdog would bring us together once again to battle the juggernaut

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Mikey Weinstein takes on Rush, Christianists

An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh in defense of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation: The encroachment of fundamentalism in our armed forces destroys their ability to serve the American people. Servicemen and women are crying out that coercive evangelizing and pressure to adhere to a religion that is not their own, harm unit cohesion.

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A Revelation

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--The event had been sold out for weeks. Tickets were being offered on the black market for three times their face value. With 30 minutes to show time, the crowds were formhttp://www.opinionjournal.com/images/line.gifing outside, some wolfing down sandwiches in the parking lot. For this much excitement, people around here generally

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Eternal Forces strikes back - ExChristian.Net - News and Opinion

Remember that Christian video game called Eternal Forces that came out last year? Well, apparently, criticism of the game caused sales to lag a bit. And in response, Left Behind Games is fighting back.

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"Atheists Spreading the Word" - New documentary on Google Video

20 minute documentary on atheism, aired on CBC's The National, October 5, 2007.

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LOLBible - Sorry, I couldn't resist :)

Judges 1 From LOLCat Bible Translation Project1. the izralitez axed ceiling cat, "hoos representin?" 2. ceiling cat sez, "wtf? y axe me??" 3. a bunch o d00dz wit stuff on der handz axed thir brutherz 4 halp 4. halp!!! 5. so thai chasd men around and cut off thums n' toez GROSS!!!

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Burma: Thousands of Protesters and Monks Killed and Dumped in Jungle

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about.The bodies can be counted in thousands"

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Norway Flourishes as a secular nation

Rev. Rick Mason notes that atheism is on the rise. He blames Christian fundamentalism. Certainly the ineptness, dishonesty and lack of ethics of the overtly God-fearing Bush administration may be turning people off on God.

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How to be an explorer of the world.

Some really good rules to live by.

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"A New Debate" Science debate between Presidential Candidates??

Oh my, Matthew Chapman wants the candidates to have a debate and answer questions about science! I think after such a debate, we might decide that NONE of the candidates are qualified to run our country.

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