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From the Times this AM: An Islamic State militant executed his own mother in front of a post office in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa this week after she tried to persuade him to leave the extremist group, Syrian activists there said on Friday. The fighter, Ali Saqr, 21, killed his mother...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/13/opinion/sunday/13kristof-how-well-do-you-know-religion.html (You may need a subscription). Kristof does an excellent job of publishing a quiz which demonstrates the commitment to extreme violence by all the Abrahamic gods and sacred texts. Not sure...

Donald Trump, apparently disturbed by the terrorist actions of some Muslims is demanding that all Muslims should be required to register with the government and be deprived of their due process rights. Since my guess is that this country has been home to probably 20 times as many Muslim...

Just wondering...Someone should have taken or been given credit for doing that deed. Also, in the thread on the "wife of Jesus" papyrus, someone mentioned that Christians would have little use for a demigod savior who screwed and farted... What are the odds that during one's lifetime one...

HYPOTHETICALLY, if the Temple Mount area were somehow to be irradiated and contaminated in such a way that it could not be walked upon for the next 2,000 years, would it help or hurt the process of securing peace in the Middle East? Is the right to be able to own or to exclusively access this...

I just saw President Obama's speech at the Prayer Breakfast in which he claimed that ISIL's horrific actions were not performed by true Muslims. He went on to say that no religion condones violence and brutality. While I like the President he is horribly wrong if he thinks there is any "true"...

I heard several reports on the news that some Muslim "clerics" had opined that ISIL's burning of the Jordanian pilot was "un-islamic". So, mindful of the Christian burnings of witches, Servetus, 6 million or so Jews (albeit mostly posthumously), thousands by auto da fe during the Inquisition...

Well, according to the NY Times this A.M., the Mormon church has now quietly but offcially acknowledged that careful research shows that their goofball founder, who had already been convicted of theft by deception before he supposedly found some ancient tablets, did in fact have "20-30" wives...