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Don't Bet on the Apocalypse

Remember those billboards during the summer of 2011 that boldly claimed the world was going to end on May 21 of that year? Those predictions were put together by a California-based Christian cult who is now destitute, because they spent all their money thinking there'd be no need for cash post-Rapture. Full story

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Jason Collins Shook a Few Bigots Out of the Homophobe Tree

Jason Collins made his big “I'm gay” announcement last week. Big news like this can't help but be met with a vocal minority of the religious-minded seeing this as a “test” from the man upstairs, and the only way they'll pass is by letting their feelings be known to a national aud… Full story

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Mormon Lost Boys - Nikita's Story

During our time in Colorado City, Arizona, we met 16-year-old Nikita Timpson, who spoke with us about her life in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints and her upbringing in a polygamous family. Full story

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Mormon Lost Boys - Lorin's Story

Lorin Holm was excommunicated from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints in 2011 following an edict from imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs. He invited us into his home for a first-hand look at the house he once shared with his three wives and 25 children. Full story

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"Coexist" Bumper Stickers Are Actually Intolerant

On the surface, it seems like a sentiment I should agree with: “Can't we all put aside our religious differences and get along?” But what happens when you put anything on a bumper sticker is that you remove the suggestive tone and make it a command: “Get along, or else.” Full story

Religion Is Taking Over Los Angeles

When you’ve worked your entire life to escape the Southern Baptist stranglehold on northeast Florida, winding up smack-dab in the middle of a burgeoning religious community can be a real drag. Full story

Editing Homophobia out of the “Islamic Tradition”

Slave rape, marital rape, and plural marriage might be unpleasant to consider as part of Islamic sexuality, but they are deeply embedded in our established sources. But I do not believe that Islamic tradition is frozen in stone. Every translation is an interpretation, and every i… Full story

New Atheism's Nasty Streak of Islamophobia

If your project is to convince people that religion is evil and should be wiped from the face of the earth, and that rational, enlightened atheism is the beacon of truth towards which we must steer the storm-battered ship of the human race, is directly assaulting religion, or one… Full story

My State Wants to Establish an Official Religion

The United States Constitution is a subjective document written by a bunch of men with wigs and wooden teeth and fancy pants in the 18th century who couldn’t possibly have foreseen the shape our modern world would take. So, when they wrote, “Congress shall make no law respecting… Full story

Oh, What a Dirty War

During the Dirty War in Argentina, members of the Catholic hierarchy were fully awake to what was going on around them. A few behaved decently and stuck their necks out for the victims; some were tortured and themselves killed. But most of the clergy in Argentina, unlike their co… Full story