32% of Muslim students polled said killing in the name of religion was ever justified. … Read the rest

Trevor Griffiths on Tom Paine, Kenan Malik on culture, Mark Juergensmeyer on religious violence.… Read the rest

Made his first film in 1950, tackled authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism. … Read the rest

Pharmacists are selling homeopathic remedies without saying they are no more effective than sugar pills.… Read the rest

Café owners in Netherlands are joining religious movement ‘the One and Universal Smokers Church of God.’… Read the rest

Depends on whether you want to live in a caliphate or not.… Read the rest

Health shops were an obvious hiding place for genocidal maniacs. Remember all that talk of cleansing impurities?… Read the rest

You have to hate unbelievers. No excuses.… Read the rest

Unbelievers – everyone except Wahhabi Muslims – are hated ‘enemies.’… Read the rest

The new wheeze is to teach non-existent ‘weaknesses’ of evolutionary theory.… Read the rest

Conversion tends to be a no-no.… Read the rest

The main traditions of jurisprudence in Islam draw on Hadiths to argue in support of death for apostates.… Read the rest

Sometimes men sulk until women give up the debate.… Read the rest

Neil Powell thinks the first is better than the second.… Read the rest

‘The gift of love should be allowed to be fruitful. This simple idea lit up everything like lightning in a storm.’… Read the rest

Experts have told Jersey police that multiple tests show the fragment is not bone.… Read the rest

Groups said Church’s ban has had catastrophic effects, particularly in prevention of AIDS.… Read the rest

Vatican refuses to change disastrous policy on contraception.… Read the rest

Obscurantist nonsense about spiritual relation between husband and wife and fecundity.… Read the rest

We have evolved brains that pay attention to anecdotes because false positives are usually harmless.… Read the rest