Dan Savage discusses bible at High School Journalism convention – YouTube
Dan Savage, creator of the It Gets Better Project, was invited to speak as a keynote speaker at NSPA/ JEA’s annual High School Journalism convention, Journalism on the Edge. via Dan Savage discusses bible at High School Journalism convention – YouTube.
Pagan mom outraged after school gives son Bible
Ginger Strivelli is a different kind of Bible-thumper: The self-proclaimed pagan would like to smack school officials for giving her son access to a copy of the good book. “It’s totally inappropriate they think they can get away with this,” an angry Strivelli told the Asheville Citizen-Times after her fifth-grade son came home with a [...]
Fox News: What do Atheist do in Crisis?
Days before the arrival of Hurricane Irene, Fox News welcomes an Atheist on their show with a question. What do Atheist do in Crisis?
The Top 10 Shocking Things Christians Don’t Know about the Bible
I was listening to talk radio the other day, and NPR was having a discussion on adoption. One of the two guests was a Catholic Priest, which immediately made my blood boil. Catholic’s policy against the use of condoms and their denigration of unwed mothers is arguably the single biggest contributor to unwanted pregnancies. Having a priest on [...]
The New Commandments by Christopher Hitchens
The Ten Commandments were set in stone, but it may be time for a re-chisel. With all due humility, the author takes on the job, pruning the ethically dubious, challenging the impossible, and rectifying some serious omissions. By Christopher Hitchens • Video by Jacques del Conte
Bible’s Different Authors Revealed By New Language Software
Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied to the Bible its algorithm teased out distinct writerly [...]
Zach Galifianakis on the Bible
“I like to read the Bible in public places, so when people are watching me read it, I like to murmur out to myself, “Oh bullshit!” - Zach Galifianakis
