It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of fait….
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen a….
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give t….
[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerat….
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion ….
Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the st….
If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?.
The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from….
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what y….
A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John K….
Christians aren't making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They're making a historical one; they're saying that this thing h….
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be..
I've had two fatwas issued against me by despot mullahs opposed to education - and important to know that the great majority of Imams and Islamic rel….
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and po….
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the p….
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the w….
If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religio….
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a….
Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the p….
Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand ce….