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Does the Internet Generation Have Its Own Priorities?

It’s Only Natural  with John Shook
May 25, 2013

If you're wondering what the Millennials could bring to any social movement, look at what they typically value.

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Not the Overwhelming Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Phenomenon That You Thought it Was

The Morning Heresy  with Paul Fidalgo
May 24, 2013

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.  

Kimberly Winston gets some atheists' reactions to the pope's suddenly not condemning we godless to the fires of Hell. 

However! A Vatican spokesman puts the whole "infallible pope" thing into question by saying, no, atheists are going to Hell

(But you know what the Church is okay with for real? Eating alligators.) 

Now you can help out Rebecca Vitsmun by buying up "Actually I'm an atheist" t-shirts.

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Statement Re My May 18 Blog Post

No Faith Value  with Ronald A. Lindsay
May 23, 2013

The decision to issue the following statement is my own decision, and is not the result of any instruction or pressure, direct or indirect, from anyone, including, but not limited to, members of the CFI board of directors.

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Portlandian Bodily Fluids

The Morning Heresy  with Paul Fidalgo
May 23, 2013

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.  

Horror in London, as a man identified as a soldier is hacked to death by what seem to be Islamist militants, who film the attack in broad daylight. 

In a tweet, Reza Aslan seems to know what happens next:

Alright Muslims. You know the drill. Some Muslim somewhere did something crazy. Get out there and start apologizing for it.

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