Well, it’s a possibly.
A study to be published in August’s Journal of Archaeological Science by Danish archaeologists describes how monks engaged in copying biblical and other religious texts may have been poisoned by mercury in a red ink used in illustrating these manuscripts.

Since the monks, who were buried in the cloister walk of the Cistercian [...]

Northern Ireland, that bastion of (arguably religiously supported) sectarian bullshit can now proudly lay claim to another religious born-again bigot, this time in the form of DUP Strangford assembly member Iris Robinson.
Robinson, a born-again christian (apparently she didn’t quite get it right the first time) is quoted as saying that homosexuality was an abomination when [...]

/hattip Pharyngula
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What do you mean they’re not True Christians™? They really do seem like sincere believers in Jesus to me…
/hattip Humanistdad
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Do you remember the challenge that Christopher Hitchens apparently mentions in his new book Portable Atheist (which I haven’t yet read) and put to theists everywhere while touring with God Is Not Great? I’ll remind you:
Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made [...]

I was in the pub yesterday, and was made aware that catholic wingnut-in-chief Ratzinger had been bad-mouthing science and atheism by playing the old Marxism=teh evul! card and playing up christianity because it offers “hope”. Earlier today, I saw a few posts on blogs (The Freethinker, Atheist Ethicist - highly recommended) and articles in [...]

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Reality and Love Biblically-Justified Genocide.
Christian CADRE (Colligation of Apologetics Debate Research & Evangelism) (sic) show us that old fashioned good-time fire and brimstone love of their old testament god:
Knowing full well that some atheist will accuse me of justifying genocide… they accuse Christians of being the ones [...]

This has been bothering me for a while now, ever since I saw Zak’s Atheist video on YouTube, and I thought that I’d take a closer look at what Psalm 14:1 actually says.
The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
there is no one who does good.
New International [...]

In a recent post on MediaWatchWatch there are photographs of a protest group albeit in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek way (I hope!) protesting JS:TO on the pretense that clothes - worn, I presume, by the cast as costumes - are against the scripture of the bible.
In particular, they show two of the protestors holding a placard [...]

Ok, here’s a poser:
if the bible is the word of god, etc., and inerrant in it’s original form, why are there no corrected editions?

This article was originally posted at In Defence of Reality.
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I think it’s amazing that there an increasing tendency for those of faith to claim that there’s more and more evidence (e.g. intelligent design/creationism) to the answers of life, the universe and everything, when in fact no new evidence for any of it has emerged in the past however-many years (or whenever it was that [...]

I had the opportunity to take part in a discussion the other day, Debunking Christianity: Is God Afraid of Us? and opined that there were reasons why I thought that god had fear, although I didn’t address the point if god was afraid of us. I couldn’t think of any further commentary, and so [...]