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Tonight Vanity Fair announced that Christopher Hitchens, the polarizing author and essayist, died on Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston due to complications of esophageal cancer. He was 62. More »
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Today in hateration news: people really, really don't trust atheists. In a new study, the only group participants found as untrustworthy as nonbelievers were rapists. More »
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It's no surprise that religion can help people through tough times, but new research shows it doesn't help as much when things are good. In societies that are under stress, religious people are happier and outnumber non-religious people, according to University of Illinois psychologists. Lead author Ed Diener explains: More »
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I am one of those people who conduct gymnastics on the way out of the grocery store so I can avoid your children and what they are selling as fundraisers. More »
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People are upset, and rightfully so. It's kind of an asshole move. More »
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The role of religion in a feminist's life is always going to be a tricky topic, because so many religions rely on patriarchal structures and the blind, or near-blind, acceptance of the appropriateness of those structures. It usually doesn't help, either, that most religions come down on the wrong side of many of the policy issues of importance to feminists, like reproductive rights or the socially or politically-mandated roles of women in the family. The acceptance of a religion, for many feminists, might mean coming to a personal conclusion that what you consider the fundamental tenants of a religion are compatible with one's own world view even as the way they've been misinterpreted by the leaders of the religion isn't. More »
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