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Are people who think science is a gateway to atheism going to change their minds if you sweet talk them?

A group of rabbis and mystics circled Israel in a plane, praying and blowing horns to ward off H1N1.

Petulant finger-pointing disguised as a think piece.

Is this a plea for Dawkins to stop writing books of any kind, or to convert to some conventional piety?

We’ve been making nice with religion for decades, and America remains as ‘unscientific’ as ever.

Guards rape them the night before they are executed so that they will spend eternity in hell.

Faith-healing clinic in Christchurch NZ offers to cure cancer and broken bones through prayer.

Conservative politics and religion; well there you go.

Loonies still oppose fluoridation of water, so teeth continue to decay. Ice cream, Mandrake? Children’s ice cream?

Which of course translates to bullying women.

Keep on differentiating until you find a curve that matches your needs.

Defenders of the faith insist that the authors of ‘aggressive secularism’ focus maliciously on the bad parts.

The case has prompted a campaign for defamation law to be kept out of scientific disputes.

Some commentators in Muslim-majority countries are questioning their leaders’ support for Bashir.

NGOs cited the Gojra incident: the local administration allowed organised groups to kill Christians.

APA says ‘religious faith and psychology do not have to be seen as being opposed to each other.’

Says ‘Obama’s “death panel”’ will decide whether her ‘baby with Down Syndrome’ is ‘worthy of health care.’

Read extracts, check out the reviews, get some wisdom from Madeleine Bunting.

If you take out the doctrine, aren’t you left with rational secular discourse?

One has to be impressed with Scialabba’s uncanny ability to inhabit the books and writers he reviews.