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Doug Phillips’s 200 Year Plan envisages a godly United States, six generations from now, with fundamentalist evangelicals in the majority and a theocratic government in charge.

In order to count as sane, you don’t necessarily have to conform to the norms of the world, but you do have to be nonconformist in a generally acceptable way.

Teacher beat her, principal told school management, prayer leaders fumed in their sermons, the girl was expelled, she and her mother had to leave the city.

Just as farmers try to prevent their livestock from killing one another, so rulers will try to keep their subjects from cycles of raiding and feuding.

RD: But how do you decide which bits to doubt and which bits to accept? As scientists, we do it by evidence. CO: You can’t boil everything down to evidence!

Racist epithets are unquestionably considered unacceptable, but the sexist versions operate in a context where misogyny is so deeply entrenched that it can escape notice.

Says “Religions do not depend upon their myths and miracles. They are there as
illustrations.” Says other things too.

He covers a lot of ground by addressing a series of pleasingly simple questions. Who was the first person? Why are there so many kinds of animals? Why do we have night and day?

17-year-old Jessie faced being forced into marriage to her 40-year-old cousin in Bangladesh. She begged the British Consulate for help and officials stepped in.

Dominionism is theocratic, and that’s alarming.

Many of the cows and buffaloes wandering Delhi’s roads are owned and neglected by illegal dairies who are concerned only about milk production.

How to take a woman’s rights away.

Hugh Hefner as liberator. Really.

One for Jad Abumrad, the co-host and producer of “Radiolab,” a program on WNYC in New York that explores questions of science and philosophy, like the nature of altruism.

Most of the 19th century wasn’t prosperous people gathered around a hearth, it was ragged people crowded into tenements.

Every night I would go to bed fearing the same god I had been taught loved me and “had the whole world in his hands.”

She wears a headpiece but she swears up and down it’s not two-way. That’s good enough, surely!

Religious groups demand these pseudo-rights because they don’t want to compete with liberal, rational, progressive and humane ideas on equal terms.

Says the popularity of Dawkins and Hitchens make it harder for church to convey its message.

It paid for a billboard showing an obese woman with the message: “Save the Whales. Lose the Blubber. Go Vegetarian.” Now it’s launching a porn site.