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A study conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture suggests there is a strong correlation between being religious and personal happiness. Research found that people who attend religious services every week are twice as likely to describe themselves as ‘very happy. ‘The opposite…

A study done at medical facilities between 2009 and 2012 has found that health care providers discuss religious beliefs or spirituality in less than 20 percent of cases. Senior author of the study, Douglas White says for many patients and family, these issues are important and understanding them is important…

A study of the amount of chicken meat in chicken nuggets was published in the American Journal of Medicine. The nuggets are less than 50 percent meat. The rest is fat, blood veins, bone fragments and various other chicken parts. Does that disgust you? Christians disgust others when their lives are less…

The mayor of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius has announced that he will install a huge screen on the town hall which will display a real-time indicator of the city’s mood. The giant display will give a daily barometer reading of the city’s happiness as it tabulates votes citizens send in from their cell…

Published July 16, 2013 | FoxNews.com An Ivy League professor blogged after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin that the verdict shows God is a “white racist” who stalks “young black men.” Anthea Butler, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Department…

September 29th, 2012 10:00 PM ET By Alan Miller, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Alan Miller is Director of The New York Salon and Co-Founder of London's Old Truman Brewery. He is speaking at The Battle of Ideas at London's Barbican in October. By Alan Miller, Special to CNN The increasingly common refrain…

By Fruzsina Eördögh Dmitry Itskov wants to live forever. The 32-year-old Russian billionaire and media mogul thinks he can do this by building himself (and everyone) an android body by the year 2045. There are a few flaws to Itskov’s idea, but that hasn’t stopped more than 20,000 people from publicly…

In Religulous, Bill Maher says, “Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It’s nothing to brag about, and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are our intellectual slaveholders keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned so much lunacy and destruction! Religion…

May 4, 2012 9:11 am Author: The American Dream Do you know what the fastest growing religion in America is? It isn’t Christianity. According to the latest U.S. Religion Census that was just released on May 1, 2012, the fastest growing religion in America is Islam. The data for the census was compiled…

By Todd Starnes Published September 06, 2011 | FoxNews.com A weekend of religious-themed observances at Washington National Cathedral marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks will include a Buddhist nun and an Imam, but not an evangelical Christian, leading the head of the…

The refusal of people to make distinctions is leaving room for religions that really are not religions at all. The British Government recently decided that some “self-proclaimed Druids—a ‘bunch of eccentrics’ who like to dress up in robes and prance around Stonehenge, chanting at the sun—belong to a…

The ACLU is suing a North Carolina high school that suspended a student for having a nose ring. “Ariana Lacono, 14, says she and her mother belong to the Church of Body Modification.” Her lawsuit contends, “She should be able to attend public school without being forced to renounce her family’s religious…

Two Polish neo-Nazis who were childhood sweethearts and later became skinheads have discovered what for them is a shocking family secret: They're actually Jewish. Pawel and Ola, identified only by their first names, are the subject of a CNN documentary about Poles rediscovering their Jewish roots generations…

“I live in a vacuum that is as lonely as a radio tube when the batteries are dead, and there is no current to plug into.” that’s what Ernest Hemingway said of his life. How could that be? He was known for his tough-guy image and globe-trotting pilgrimages to exotic places. He was a big-game hunter, a…

Editor's Note*: Deepak Chopra is founder of the Chopra Foundation and a senior scientist at the Gallup Organization. He has authored over 60 books, including The Soul of Leadership, which The Wall Street Journal called one of five best business books about careers. By Deepak Chopra, Special to CNN For…

Nathan Thornburgh was a staff journalist at Time magazine when he felt he was missing something in his life. He quit his job to be a full time father to his two children. Fulfillment still avoided Nathan and he began to check out the self-fulfillment path. Attending a self-fulfillment seminar, The Landmark…

He made free use of Christian vocabulary. He talked about the blessing of the Almighty and theChristian confessions which would become the pillars of the new government. He assumed theearnestness of a man weighed down by historic responsibility. He handed out pious stories to the press, especially to…

Fifty percent of Americans cannot pass a test of simple questions regarding religion such as “name of the first book of the Bible.” Americans are religiously illiterate, said Stephen Prothereo after the results of a new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. We have raised a couple of generations…

Choosing My Religion The Barna Group has completed some research that I think you will find interesting. They are reporting that most Americans do not default to the Christian religion. You okay? Maybe you should sit down. While many will continue to debate whether or not America ever was a "Christian…

Affiliation with organized religion is at a 50-year low among young people, according to a study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion. The study focused on the generation known as The Millennials — those under 30, born after 1980. But the data "doesn't necessarily mean that young people are…

AUSTIN, Texas — Parents, teachers and activists will sound off Wednesday on how history — topics from the fall of the Roman Empire to cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash — will be taught to millions of Texas children for the next decade. The State Board of Education begins hearing testimony, before a tentative…

As men became increasingly weak and needy thye turned to religion. (pp. 54-55) Driving force for religion was fear "Fear mad for division rather than for community" (p. 56) Ernest Gordon, To End All Wars

The Roman Catholic Church in France is objecting to a new pay telephone line set up to receive people's confessions, AFP reported. The phone line, called "Le Fil du Seigneur," or "The Line of the Lord," was set up at the start of the Christian fasting period of Lent by a group of Catholics working for…

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Philosopher Sam Harris: Religion distracts us from important issues Harris, the author of "The End of Faith," says religious difference can't be reconciled Science can be used to prove the best way to live a moral life, he says RELATED TOPICS Sam Harris TED Conference Social Issues (CNN)…

Associated Press A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five…