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When Professor Robert Oscar Lopez was very young, too young to remember his dad, his parents divorced. His mother began a relationship with a woman who also had kids. They moved in together permanently when Robert was a teenager. In 2012 Lopez shared his view publicly that his same-sex upbringing was…

Recently British sex expert Helen Driscoll declared that “Robophilia”—or sex between humans and robots—could be considered “the norm” within the next 50 years. Our message is the loving word that God intended sex as a beautiful thing, to be shared between one woman and one man, in a lifetime relationship.…

Piedmont High School in Alabama had a long tradition of allowing public prayers before sporting events. After receiving a complaint from a local resident, the school announced that the practice would have to stop. The school said fans and players could still pray on their own, but the sound system could…

Look out America! There’s a new church movement rising across the country, and guess what they all have in common? They all don’t believe in God! Yes, the growth of atheist churches and even atheist mega-churches are becoming more and more popular as people want the warm feelings of a church experience…

Michelle Wilkins, a 26-year-old Colorado woman answered a Craigslist ad for baby clothes. When she arrived she was attacked by a woman who cut her seven-month fetus from her womb. The mother survived the attack, but the baby did not. The suspect faces eight felony charges, including unlawful termination…

Dean and Cristy Parave promote fitness, and spouse swapping to Christians on their website. “I don’t think God would be mad at what we are doing,” Cristy said. “At first I was conflicted, but the more we looked at it, the more it makes sense to us.”—Jim L. Wilson http://nypost.com/2014/09/25/these-christian-swingers-like-sharing-bible-verses-sex-partners/…

Reverend Wena Parry a minister in Great Britain says she was told that stickers saying “Christ Must be Saviour” and “Christ For me” could be regarded as modifications and might void her insurance policy. Parry though she was being treated unfairly and was concerned that someone in the company had something…

David Bonney is the founder of a German shoe company called Atheist. He is having problems with shipments to American addresses. He thinks the delays his shipments routinely experience are due to God-fearing American postal workers. The word Atheist is stamped on the boxes. Bonney can think of no other…

Many Christians across the country set aside the first Thursday in May as the National day of Reason.” The date began in competition to the National Day of Prayer when the groups decided to offer some Americans an alternative. Those who observe the day encourage others to spend the day performing community…

I recently read two headlines on the same day about medical care provided by public school nurses, following board policies, which left me scratching my head. One of the headlines read: “Outraged family: Girl breaks arm at Saugus school, no one calls 911” and the other one read, “NYC schools give out…

A billboard put up by an atheist group in California got a lot of attention, but not exactly the kind of attention the group had planned. The group, backyard Skeptics put up a sign including a quote about Christianity attributed to Thomas Jefferson. The outdoor ad featured a picture of Jefferson along…

According to Janie B. Cheaney, writing in World Magazine, atheism is more than rejecting God, it usually means despising people. The late Christopher Hitchens for example said, “My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to…

A new study by Psychologists at the University of British Columbia and the University of Oregon shows that people do not trust atheists. “The study, conducted among 350 Americans adults and 420 Canadian college students, asked participants to decide if a fictional driver damaged a parked car and left…

In his latest book, physicist Stephen Hawking says he is out to disprove Sir Isaac Newton’s belief that the universe must have been created and designed by God. Hawking say physical laws themselves shaped the universe. At one time, Hawking’s writing suggested he thought belief in a creator was not inconsistent…

What happened to Nagla al-Imam and her two children? An Egyptian citizen, al-Imam converted to Christianity. Recently, a controversial attorney made her conversion public. “In an interview broadcast by Free Christian Voice she described being arrested and beaten by Egyptian security forces for her change…

Judge Thomas Wingate recently ruled that a reference to God in a Kentucky law establishing the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security is unconstitutional. The General Assembly created an official government position by passing a law requiring the office to acknowledge “the dependence on Almighty God as…

BELIEF Camp Quest, a summer camp at a state park outside Nevada City, CA has a secular twist. It is for the children of atheists and other non-believers. The campers play games that encourage children to think positively about evolution and their “freethinking” heroes like Isaac Asimov. Of course their…

One of the fastest growing religions in the United States is Wicca. In a recent survey, “nearly 2.8 million people now identify with dozens of new religious movements, calling themselves Wiccan, pagan, or “Spiritualist,’ which the survey does not define.” “Wicca, a contemporary form of paganism that…

BELIEF When English bus driver Ron Heather went to work, he responded with “shock” and “horror” to the new advertisement posted on his bus. The large banner reading, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life,” is part of ad campaign funded by the British Humanist Association and…

ETERNITY Every year, in the Nevada Desert, pagans gather to perform ritualistic dances in front of a 52-foot wooden statue of a man. The climax of the anything goes, clothing optional festival comes when the statue is set ablaze and the participates mock the Christian belief that they will all one day…

Did you know it is possible to get debaptised? For $4.50 secularists in the United Kingdom will sell you a Certificate of Debaptism. It is an “outward sign of the inner rationality that inspires your being.” --World Magazine, April 25, 2009, p. 15 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell Through…

PERSECUTION Chinese officials sentenced thirty-six year old Alimujiang Yimiti to 15 years for “suspicion of instigating separatism and providing national secrets or intelligence to overseas organizations or individuals.” His crime? Yimiti was the leader of a house church. China Aid president, Bob Fu,…

In response to a advertising campaign launched several months ago by the National Secular Society (NSS), over 100,000 Britons have downloaded a ”certificate of debaptism” from an Internet resource in order to renounce their Christian faith. President of NSS, Terry Sanderson announced, “We now produce…

At the 2009 Oscar telecast Bill Maher was chosen to present the award in the documentary category. While presenting the award Maher commented, “Someday, we all have to confront the notion that our silly gods cost the world too greatly.” --World Magazine, March 14, 2009 p. 10 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson…

Easter Back in the 1880's Nietzsche declared that "God is dead," and before the turn of the Twentieth Century, Shaw and Wells chimed in saying the 20th Century would mark the end of the world's "religious phase." Yet, today a church now meets in Russia's Museum of Religion and Atheism-the former center…