10/06/2008
12.1% - Nothing in Particular, Religion-Wise (Pew via Yahoo! News)
The majority of adults who describe themselves as unaffiliated -- about 12% of the adult population overall -- is made up of people who simply describe their religion as "nothing in particular." About half of these people (6.3% of the overall adult population) say that religion is not too important or not at all important in their lives.
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10/06/2008
'Losing My Religion' (FSView)
By now, director Larry Charles (Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm) seems like the most anti-Semitic person in Hollywood. It makes sense, then, that he teams up with among the most polarizing personalities in pop culture, Bill Maher, in this latest look at organized (and rather, unorganized) religion.
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10/05/2008
Carlos Santana - Santana To Quit Music For Religion (ContactMusic)
Rock legend CARLOS SANTANA plans to quit music in six years’ time – so he can devote his life to the church. The guitar great, 61, has turned to religion to help him ...
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10/06/2008
Mark Vernon: Religion can't be explained by evolutionary scientists (Guardian Unlimited)
Mark Vernon: Contemporary research that focuses on what people may say about God puts the cart before the horse
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10/06/2008
Covet this: The new rules for 'Religulous' (USA Today)
Bill Maher says he's actually doing God a favor with Religulous, his globe-trotting takedown of organized religion.
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10/06/2008
Miss Manners: Clergyman seems to miss the point of religion (Contra Costa Times)
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have never been so humiliated in my life as I was at the funeral of an elderly lady who befriended me 30 years ago. I was a single mother with no family close by, and she and her husband (who passed away several years ago) "adopted" my then-3-year-old daughter, taking her to
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10/05/2008
Professor speaking on politics, religion (Stillwater NewsPress)
With the race for the White House in the home stretch, an Oklahoma State University professor is looking at religion as it relates to this and other elections.
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10/06/2008
Religion News in Brief (The Morning News)
Texas Educators Recommend Lawsuit-Prone Bible Curriculum
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10/06/2008
Arkansas Inmate Prevails On Religion Claim (The Morning News)
NASHVILLE -- A judge erred in dismissing an Arkansas prisoner’s complaint that Howard County jail officials discriminated against him when they punished him for refusing to work on a day he considered the Sabbath, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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10/06/2008
Dr. Z: QB debate, rankings fallout, more (Sports Illustrated)
My politics, my personality, even my religion have been ripped in this latest collection of howdy do's. I'll give voice to the first two, but please accept my apologies, Holy Joe. We're keeping you mute today.
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