As many readers may know by now, Mel Gibson is "Catholic" in only a loose sense - he belongs to a movement of "Old Catholics" who reject everything that has Read More...

Religious ignorance and superstition are deplorable just on general principles - but when they cause disease to spread and people to die, it becomes far worse. In Nigeria, parents are Read More...

Boyd County schools in Kentucky have agreed to allow a "Gay-Straight Alliance" club to meet on school grounds and provide homosexual tolerance and anti-harassment classes for students, faculty, and staff Read More...

Bus bombings by terrorists is getting worse and worse in Israel, but the police have a new idea that might help deter future attacks: hang bags of pig lard in Read More...

There are any number of people who believe that because abortion is murder, then use of "morning-after" pill which might cause a fertilized embryo not to implant are also murder. Read More...

Sikhs are followers of Guru Nanak (b. 1469) and his nine successors (known as Gurus). Nanak had been raised in a Hindu family of the trading caste in a village Read More...

Accusations of witchcraft appears to be a growth industry in some African regions, but it's one where women, children, and other relatively powerless groups are usually on the losing end Read More...

Ohio's State Board of Education has given it's endorsement to a 10th-grade biology lesson plan that could introduce "intelligent design" to Ohio classrooms. Concerns raised by the National Academy of Read More...

One of the biggest problems involving debates over the separation of church and state, something which I find myself writing about over and over here on this site (is anyone Read More...

February 13, 1965: A private theater in Rome was prevented by the Italian government from staging a production of Rolf Hochhuth's play "Der Stellvertreter" (The Deputy). The play depicts Read More...

The American government justified its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in part on the idea that the people of these countries needed to be freed from oppressive regimes. Whether that Read More...

In Massachusetts, they're debating whether to ban same-sex marriage in the state's constitution. In San Francisco, gays getting marriage licenses and getting married, thanks to the mayor. So many couples Read More...

Christians in America who exhibit the most preoccupation with sexual morality tend to talk a lot about matters such as homosexuality, pornography, sex before marriage, and similar issue. But except Read More...

What is perhaps not clearly evident is that Wicca is, or rather should be, a creationist religion. The simple reason for this is that, as I will demonstrate in this Read More...