Collected News and Blogs

Why Humanists Need to Make the Shift to Post-Atheism
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
More radically, for those deeply entrenched in fundamentalist religions and cults, there's always the possibility of deprogramming. The trick is to start the intervention. Lastly, I'm hoping to see atheists move past the religion bashing and start ...

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"Mainstream" Islamist Group Attacks Law Enforcement and Whitewashes Jihadists
Right Side News
"We in the Muslim American community have been battling the corrupt and bankrupt ideas of cults such as Al Qaeda," he wrote in October in the Los Angeles Times." Now it seems we also have to battle pseudo-experts in the FBI and the Department of ...

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Letter: Preference, not freedom, demanded
Knoxville News Sentinel
A two thousand year old mythological narrative that borrowed from the mysteries of the existing cults and religions to ease their flock's conversion is not suitable to guide your life. Read. Read the history of Christianity, the complilation of the ...

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Earliest proof of biblical cult
Daily Star Online
[Religious Worship: Top 10 Cults] The research is presented in the book, "Footsteps of King David in the Valley of Elah" (Yedioth Ahronoth, 2012). Radiocarbon dating on burnt olive pits found in the ancient city of Khirbet Qeiyafa indicate it existed ...

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New York Times
How Mitt Romney Could Pitch Himself as Mormon Freedom Fighter
ChristianityToday.com
Mormons may find their beliefs publically denounced, their missionary activity banned, and their religion placed on official lists of "dangerous cults"—forms of abuse suffered alongside many evangelical and Pentecostal groups.
Approach about faith questioned as Romney woos evangelicalsUSA TODAY
Mormon Cultist For President!BuzzFeed
Romney speaks at LibertyTucson Citizen

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Minority Religions and Esoteric Practices as Courtroom Evidence
Patheos (blog)
By the way, not many people remember that Dr. Ofshe won a Pulitzer Prize for his work studying religious “cults.” He had a dual expertise.” Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley would end up spending 18 years in prison before being freed in 2011 on an Alford ...

OpEdNews
The Monday Sermon: Is Freedom Of Religion A Blessing ...Or A Curse?
OpEdNews
The dizzying array of "sects" "cults" and "heretics" ostracized by organized segments of Christianity magnifies the fact that certain Christians are incapable of freedom of religion with their own let alone other religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Romney approach on faith raises questions
Tucson Citizen
A graduate course description at Liberty University describes the religion as one of the “major cults.” When asked about the biggest misconceptions about his religion in an interview with CBN News following the speech, Romney said he wasn't sure he was ...
Romney reaches out to evangelicals in Liberty speechWTSP 10 News

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Across country, black pastors weigh in on Obama's same-sex marriage support
CNN (blog)
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor Washington (CNN) - Addressing his large, mostly black congregation on Sunday morning, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith did not mince words about where he stood on President Barack Obama's newly announced support ...

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Pastor's Corner: For what it's worth, let's celebrate mothers!
Leesville Daily Leader
While the fight includes suicide bombers, guns, planes and missiles, the war is all about conflicting ideologies; and adherents of the Judeo-Christian values are in danger of losing the war. Secularism, atheism, cults, other religions, and absence of ...

Nigerian Tribune
Bayelsa cult killings: Any respite in sight?
Nigerian Tribune
African culture and traditional religious background provides an insight into the activities of different cult groups, with numerous nomenclatures, including occultism. With the advent of western civilization and its associated elements, it grows into ...

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USA TODAY
Romney reaches out to evangelicals in Liberty speech
USA TODAY
The speech, the most religion-centered address he has given this cycle, was to one of the largest Christian universities in the country. It allowed Romney to make a direct appeal to evangelicals, a key part of the Republican base that overwhelmingly ...

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Happy Mother's Day
Vancouver Sun
Mother's Day has deep roots in long-forgotten history and doubtless has its origins in ancient ancestor cults and rites that associated women's reproductive capacity with fertility cycles in the natural world, which framed beliefs in the earth itself ...

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The Guardian
Mormon Cultist For President!
BuzzFeed
On Saturday, Mitt Romney will speak at a university that teaches his religion is a cult. Across the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, conservative Christians are turning to the Bible to justify voting for a heretic. LYNCHBURG, Va.
How Mitt Romney Could Pitch Himself as Mormon Freedom FighterChristianityToday.com
Approach about faith questioned as Romney woos evangelicalsUSA TODAY
Romney reaches out to evangelicals in Liberty speechWTSP 10 News

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Marriage rights
Ventura County Star
It seems this could be an opportunity for the Mormon Church to have a new revelation by God, which would reveal the legitimacy of their original teachings and they could go back to being polygamous. What say you, Mr. President? The more the merrier.

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The Cult's Ian Astbury on Girl Power, 'Love,' And Karma
SPIN
by Kenny Herzog Time isn't exactly a linear construct for the Cult's Ian Astbury. The crooning frontman made his name during hard rock's '80s halcyon days, but his spiritual roots reach back to the mystical '60s (it wasn't exactly a shocker in 2002 ...

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Creating a new generation of the Unification Church
The Daily Pennsylvanian
The Church met with controversial criticism in its early years in the US Anti-cult associations, like the American Family Foundation, were formed to counter what they believed to be religious cults that were characterized by zealotry, authoritarianism ...

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eNewsChannels
Book Review: 'The Last Testament' by God (with David Javerbaum)
eNewsChannels
Many other wonderful viewpoints of God are revealed in the book, including: God's opinions about most religions and cults; his rewrite of Martin Luther's The 95 Theses; his decision to sink the Titanic; and his understanding that “I am he to whom ...

Evidence of Biblical cult from time of King David discovered
Fox News
[Religious Worship: Top 10 Cults] The research is presented in the book, "Footsteps of King David in the Valley of Elah" (Yedioth Ahronoth, 2012). Radiocarbon dating on burnt olive pits found in the ancient city of Khirbet Qeiyafa indicate it existed ...

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Render unto taxman ... churches should pay
The Manly Daily
Religions. According to O'Brien and Palmer, The Atlas of Religion, page 39, funds of major religions are reported to be $US7 trillion. Why not tax the cults and religious groups, look into the new buildings, churches, land purchases and make them pay a ...

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