News & Articles from 2013 How religious, political and ideological beliefs spark falsehoods, intolerance, violence, crime, and war comments by Jim Walker [Note: Due to expiration dates of some news sites, some links may no longer work]
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24 May Atheist Arizona lawmaker quotes Carl Sagan for House opening prayer
24 May Former Church of England priest abused girls and boys then savagely beat victims who tried to speak out
23 May Taxpayer Dollars Are Helping Monsanto Sell Seeds Abroad
23 May Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers
22 May Bigotry against Jews and Muslims on the rise, says US
22 May Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds
21 May Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research
21 May Priests lead Orthodox anti-gays in violent Tbilisi clashes with rights activists
20 May Report: Republicans were source of bogus Benghazi quotes
20 May Corporations are manufacturing uncertainty about scientific findings. Now scientists are fighting back
19 May Report: Republicans were source of bogus Benghazi quotes
19 May Former priest faces 34 child sex abuse charges
18 May 'No Religion' Is Increasingly Popular For Canadians: Report
18 May Humanists threaten to sue Missouri school officials over teacher-led prayer meetings
17 May Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!
17 May Disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland for 'prayer and penance'
16 May Oklahoma public school removes Ten Commandments plaques from classrooms
16 May Chilean priest removed from service over child sexual abuse
15 May AP Condemns 'Unprecedented Intrusion'
15 May Archdiocese of Mobile confirms local priest faces sex abuse allegations
14 May Climate Change To Shrink Animal And Plant Habitats Dramatically, Study Forecasts
14 May Student faces backlash for seeking removal of Ten Commandments from classrooms
13 May Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?
13 May Catholic Church to be sued over Shefford home abuse claims
12 May Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears
12 May Former priest at Schaumburg church sued for child sexual abuse
11 May Local Fights Against Austerity Are Growing Across the US
11 May Six more men file lawsuits alleging priest abuse
10 May Bachmann could face lawsuit for 'propagating complete and utter lies'
10 May Islamic preacher rapes boy inside Egypt mosque
09 May Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence Education Teaches Rape Victims They're Worthless, Dirty, And Filthy
09 May Amanda Berry is dead, psychic tells her mother on Montel Williams' show (republished)
08 May 'Miracles really do happen, God is good': Bizarre Facebook post of kidnapper, Ariel Castro
08 May Ancient Eurasiatic 'superfamily' found at root of European and Asian languages
08 May Charleston Pastor Confesses to Sexually Abusing Young Girl
07 May Five Things to Know About the NRA's New President
07 May 'Catholic mafia' hindered priest probe, special commission of inquiry into child sex abuse hears
06 May New CDC report finds stunning suicide increases among middle-aged Americans
06 May Former Pastor Found Guilty of Rape, Sex Abuse
05 May U.S. May Charge JPMorgan For Power Market Manipulation: Analysts
05 May GOP 'Party Animal' unmasked as Holocaust revisionist
05 May Assisted suicide 'supported' by religious Britons
04 May Did Backlash Against GOP Voter Suppression Increase Black Voter Turnout?
04 May Priest from Wilkes-Barre convicted in N.Y. for Sexual Child Abuse of Altar Boy
03 May Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study
03 May Rise of the conservative revolutionaries
02 May Global carbon dioxide levels set to pass 400ppm milestone
02 May Former Catholic Priest Bill Carney arrested in Britain accused of 32 counts of pedophilia
01 May Senators Lose Support After Opposing Gun Background Checks, Poll Shows
01 May Argentina bishop forced to pay for sex abuse
30 Apr MSNBC guest Dave Zirin: Why is Bush not on trial for war crimes?
30 Apr When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Trend That's Sweeping America
29 Apr Ideomotor effect: The driving force behind Ouija boards and fake bomb detectors
29 Apr Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Mystery
28 Apr Mississippi high school forces students to attend Christian lectures: lawsuit
28 Apr CERN physicists can explain matter vs. antimatter
27 Apr Bacteria churn out first ever petrol-like biofuel
27 Apr Serbian priest accused for sexual abuse of minors (includes video)
26 Apr Poll: Most Americans would vote atheist for president
26 Apr Burma: Buddhist monks lead ethnic cleansing campaign against Muslims
25 Apr Family who chose prayer over medicine loses second child also see this video
25 Apr Australian Catholic priest charged with paedophilia
24 Apr Boston Bombers Motivated by Religious Belief
24 Apr Study: Earth Warmed More at End of 20th Century Than in Past 1,400 Years
24 Apr Richard Dawkins: 'Indoctrination of religion' is 'child abuse'
23 Apr Study finds belief in free market economics predicts rejection of science
23 Apr Australia arrests priest on child abuse charges
22 Apr In Case You Missed It: Congress Takes Your Internet Privacy
22 Apr Harvard atheists shocked at exclusion from Boston bombing memorial service
21 Apr Dead Boston bombing suspect was a 'very religious' Muslim boxer
21 Apr House of Horrors: Violence on the Home Front
20 Apr Prof. Stephen Hawking tells students the universe does not need a God to exist
20 Apr What government tests found in your meat
19 Apr Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses
19 Apr Ex-choirboy tells of abuse 'horror'
19 Apr Parents need to know homeopathy does not protect against measles, says MP
18 Apr Nonpartisan review concludes Bush knowingly ordered torture
18 Apr Boston Marathon Bombing (Graphic Photos)
17 Apr Scientists Make Terrifying Global Warming Discovery
17 Apr Former Orangevale Priest Removed from Ministry over Abuse Allegations
17 Apr Rat receives world's first functional lab-grown kidney
16 Apr Experts: Millions will starve to death as climate change accelerates
16 Apr 'Mortal Sins' an unflinching look at priest sex abuse scandal
15 Apr 'Shadow Biosphere' theory gaining scientific support
15 Apr Maher: U.S. needs to give up war addiction and define 'peace as strength'
14 Apr 11 Actions That Prove Republicans Are Intent On Making 2013 A Terrible Year For Sex
14 Apr Austria: Ex-priest charged in 15 child abuse cases
13 Apr Science discovers 'magic trick' that causes partisan voters to switch parties
13 Apr Church pair guilty of child abuse
12 Apr New Evidence That Team Obama Misled Us About the Drone War
12 Apr Penis size does matter
11 Apr Seven Chilling Facts About Retirement in America
11 Apr Church of England priest abused children over 11-year period, court told
10 Apr Peter Higgs: Stop calling Higgs boson the 'God particle'
10 Apr Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
09 Apr Amy Goodman: Corporate media is 'an extreme media beating the drums for war'
09 Apr Priest cases show abuse issues persist
08 Apr New Kansas anti-abortion law orders doctors to lie to their patients
08 Apr Scientists 'read dreams' using brain scans
07 Apr Federal court rules emergency contraceptives needs to be sold over the counter
07 Apr House Speaker: State religion resolution is dead, will not be voted on
07 Apr Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production could revolutionize alternative energy market
06 Apr Pot Legalization Draws Majority Support Nationwide
06 Apr Catholic Church criticised as allegations of abuse by suspended parish priest are revealed
05 Apr Roger Ebert dies at age 70: I do not fear death
05 Apr Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact
05 Apr New Mexico priest accused of child sexual abuse
04 Apr Obama launches $100 million brain-mapping project
04 Apr Priest gets 6 years for child sex abuse
03 Apr When Will We Stop Cars - Scratch That - GUNS, From Killing People?
03 Apr Man yelled 'will of God!' after gunning down dad at Easter services
02 Apr Corporate Kangaroo Courts Supplant Our Seventh Amendment Rights
02 Apr Nun kills self, family allege abuse by church in TN
01 Apr Major study finds no link between vaccines and autism
01 Apr Church 'not interested in resolving abuse'
31 Mar Jim Carrey: Fox News 'A Media Colostomy Bag That Has Begun To Burst At The Seams'
31 Mar Holy Hell - one family's story of sexual abuse by their priest
30 Mar Armed protesters show up to counter Indianapolis gun control rally
30 Mar Catholic League Wants Time Warner To Have 'A Serious Talk' With Bill Maher
29 Mar Gun Violence Costs U.S. Health Care System, Taxpayers Billions Each Year
29 Mar 'Atheist' shoe company claims U.S. Postal Service is discriminatory
28 Mar Hey Corporations, It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taxes
28 Mar Irish Catholics continue to flee the church
27 Mar Michele Bachmann Presidential Campaign Under Ethics Investigation: Report
27 Mar Church used 'blackmail, secrecy'
26 Mar The True Costs of Industrialized Food
26 Mar The money man behind atheism's activism
25 Mar Tea Party group boycotting Fox News for becoming 'too liberal'
25 Mar Former Pastor Charged With Sexual Abuse Of Teen Girl
24 Mar 98 Days Since Newtown: 2,243 Dead
24 Mar Ex-priest sentenced for abuse in Ireland
23 Mar Scientists find visions of a benevolent future society motivate reform
23 Mar West Virginia paper's anti-LGBT column wants death for 'n*ggers, spics, kikes and wops'
22 Mar Republicans: There's No Debt Crisis, We Just Want to Screw the Poor
22 Mar Files reveal depth of chlld sex abuses at Joliet Diocese
21 Mar Depleted Uranium Contamination is Still Spreading in Iraq
21 Mar Westboro Baptist Church gets a big surprise
20 Mar Iraq: War's Legacy of Cancer
20 Mar Atheist group targets Rick Perry for urging Texans to pray away gun violence
19 Mar New evidence: CIA and MI6 were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
19 Mar Miami priests accused of '80s, '90s abuse
18 Mar Brainwashed and cut off from her family, Scientology leader's niece reveals Church secrets in new book
18 Mar Ancient Chinese coin may prove that the 'Christopher Columbus of China' went to Kenya
17 Mar The cost of the Iraq war: 190,000 lives, $2.2 trillion
17 Mar Humanists Raise Record Funds to Fight Leukemia and Lymphoma
16 Mar GOP senator reverses gay-marriage stance after son comes out
16 Mar Baptist pastor: Sex with underage girl 'is exactly what Christ desires'
15 Mar Questions remain over Pope Francis' role during Argentina's dictatorship
15 Mar Fox Guest says she never met people so upset that the economy is rebouding than folks at Fox
14 Mar Family Research Council: Functioning societies 'punish' single people for having sex
14 Mar 'Priest abused me at Pro-Cathedral during Papal visit'
13 Mar Three-Body Problem Breakthrough: Physicists Discover New Solutions To Age-Old Puzzle
13 Mar Nun resigns after vote fraud accusation
12 Mar US Climate Bomb is Ticking: What the Gas Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
12 Mar Conclave Cardinal Accused Of Abuse Cover Up
12 Mar More Marijuana Arrests in US Than Apprehensions for Violence in 2011: A National Disgrace
11 Mar Scientists say Earth is hotter today than it has been for nearly all of the last 11,000 years
11 Mar Sex abuse: scandal the Church cannot shake
10 Mar Source: Ashley Judd moving forward with run for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat in Kentucky
10 Mar Atheist cop sues after being demoted to car washer for refusing to pray
09 Mar North Korea: 'Nuclear war may break out right now'
09 Mar New sex-abuse allegations ahead of pope election
08 Mar Arkansas Adopts US's Most Restrictive Abortion Law
08 Mar Catholic Church: Italy's dwindling congregations (video)
07 Mar Obama Administration Says President Can Use Lethal Force Against Americans on US Soil
07 Mar Priest abuse victims' group blacklists 12 cardinals for pope
06 Mar UN investigator: Obama must release details of Bush kidnapping and torture program
06 Mar Former priest receives house arrest for assaults
05 Mar CISPA 2.0: Say Goodbye to Our Constitutional Rights
05 Mar First direct brain-to-brain interface between two animals
04 Mar At Kan. airport, fliers back sequester cuts . . . but, wait, they're closing the control tower?
04 Mar Priest accused of child abuse 'sent to Australia'
03 Mar Fascism in the Church: Ex-Priest on "The Pope's War," Clergy Abuse and Quelling Liberation Theology (video)
03 Mar New feature-length movie promotes science and advances atheism
02 Mar Senators Push Resolution Committing US to Aid Israel in Attack on Iran
02 Mar Future evidence for extraterrestrial life might come from dying stars
01 Mar New study finds physical mechanism linking extreme weather to climate change
01 Mar Brazilian Priest Investigated for Alleged Abuse
28 Feb U.N. told atheists face discrimination around globe
28 Feb Sexual abuse 'in the DNA of Roman Church' (video)
27 Feb What researchers learned about gun violence before Congress killed funding
27 Feb Top British Cardinal Resigns, a Day After Charges of 'Inappropriate Acts'
26 Feb Afghanistan leader accuses U.S. special forces of torture
26 Feb Catholic Church hit by another scandal
25 Feb Citizens United 2.0? Supreme Court Could Further Open Door to Money in Politics
25 Feb British Cardinal O'Brien accused of sexually abusing priests
24 Feb New study raises questions about religion as deterrent against criminal behaviour
24 Feb FBI: Neo-Nazi amassed 40,000 rounds, 18 weapons in plot to kill black and Jewish leaders
23 Feb Papal resignation linked to inquiry into 'Vatican gay officials', says paper
23 Feb Report: Irish state sent thousands of women to infamous workhouses
22 Feb The ATM for Climate Denial (video included)
22 Feb Brewing Anger Over Los Angeles Cardinal Mahony Voting for New Pope
21 Feb Abortion Providers Risk Their Lives, Property to Protect Choice
21 Feb Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable'
20 Feb Wall Street wins again: There never was a "task force" to ferret out mortgage fraud
20 Feb Limbaugh Is Losing! With Each Hateful Word, More Sponsors Leave
19 Feb Corporations Advise School Closings, While Private Charters Suck Public Schools Away
19 Feb How to turn living cells into computers
18 Feb Is the South ready to say howdy to hemp?
18 Feb Pope's resignation 'linked to sex abuse crisis', says Mea Maxima Culpa director
17 Feb Congress Is Trying to Kill Internet Privacy Again
17 Feb L.A. Archdiocese adds priests' names to abuse list
16 Feb Elizabeth Warren presses financial regulators: Why no trials for Wall Street?
16 Feb Church has culture of abuse denial: priest
15 Feb Self-Assembling Molecules Offer Clues to Life's Possible Origin
15 Feb Wayne LaPierre: More Guns Needed For 'Hellish World' Filled With Hurricanes, Kidnappers, Drug Gangs
14 Feb State Of The Union Speech Promises Climate Change Executive Action
14 Feb A Scientologist's Horrifying Memories of Child Abuse and Exploitation
13 Feb Sarah Silverman's Sister Arrested Praying At Wailing Wall
13 Feb Why Italy can't forgive the priest who says women provoke abuse
12 Feb Pope Benedict XVI in shock resignation
12 Feb Who are the L.A. priests prosecuted for sex abuse?
11 Feb Debtor's prison: Arkansas law jails tenants who don't pay their rent
11 Feb Study: 66 Percent of Your Fill-Up Goes Into Oil Company Coffers
10 Feb Karl Rove and his super PAC are a-skeered of Ashley Judd
10 Feb Amish leader sentenced to 15 years for beard-cutting attacks
09 Feb Iowa bill would jail raped women for 'murder' of single-cell zygotes
09 Feb ACLU sues Ohio school district over Jesus portrait
08 Feb Alabama lawmaker pushing 'personhood' because 'aborted babies' might go to Hell
08 Feb Report: Catholic laundries enslaved women and girls in Ireland as recently as 1996
07 Feb Private Prisons Blur the Line Between Real People and Real Estate
07 Feb Vatican receives 600 abuse cases a year
06 Feb FCC chairman developing plan for free wireless Internet access: report
06 Feb 87% of Americans Say Tax the Wealthy More to Protect Social Security Benefits
05 Feb Atheists find togetherness and ritual in London's new godless church
05 Feb Philadelphia Priest, Former Lay Teacher Guilty Of Most Counts In Sex Abuse Trial
04 Feb Finally, Bank Officers Held Personally Responsible For Gross Lending Practices, Sued By FDIC
04 Feb Secret files offer hope to Midland victims of pervert priest
03 Feb Humans Have Already Set in Motion 69 Feet of Sea Level Rise (video included)
03 Feb Hannity Explodes After Being Confronted By Offer To Be Waterboarded For Charity
02 Feb NRA-backed federal limits on gun lawsuits frustrate victims, their attorneys
02 Feb Fox News hits 12-year primetime low
01 Feb President Obama's popularity surges to three-year high
01 Feb Spain's Strapped Towns Look To Tax Churches For Cash
31 Jan Muslim Brotherhood losing control
31 Jan 3 in 10 Americans think God determines Super Bowl outcome
30 Jan New Republican Idea: Punishing Rape Victims With Jail Time
30 Jan Former priest sentenced on sex abuse charges
29 Jan New Jobless Benefit Applications Fall to 5-Year Low
29 Jan Gun Violence in U.S. Cities Compared to the Deadliest Nations in the World
28 Jan False beliefs persist, even after instant online corrections
28 Jan Scientology Hit With Federal Fraud Lawsuit While It's Still Reeling From Book Publicity
27 Jan Scientology scion: 'Cult' uses the most 'devious, systematic brainwashing' ever
27 Jan Homeopathy is 'rubbish', says chief medical officer
26 Jan Poll: Majority, for first time, want abortion to be legal
26 Jan Catholic Hospital Argues Fetuses Are Not People In Malpractice Suit
25 Jan House Democrat seeks to recognize February 12 as 'Darwin Day'
25 Jan Friar, who served Pittsburgh diocese from 1993-2000, accused of sex abuse in N.H.
24 Jan Asteroid-Mining Project Aims for Deep-Space Colonies
24 Jan Hasidic leader gets 103 years in child sex abuse case
23 Jan How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini's millions
23 Jan Memos show priest abuse cover-up in L.A.
22 Jan Tim Donnelly, Republican Legislator, Says Guns Are 'Essential To Living The Way God Intended'
22 Jan Pastor pleads guilty to child sex abuse
21 Jan West Point study on 'violent far right' shows 'dramatic rise' in attacks
21 Jan German Priests Carried Out Child Sexual Abuse for Years
20 Jan The disturbing rise of Sandy Hook conspiracy theories
20 Jan Connecticut Priest, Indicted In Suspected Crystal Meth Drug Ring
19 Jan Republicans Brag They Won House Majority Because Of Gerrymandering
19 Jan Director Paul Haggis says Scientology is 'a cult, of course it is' (video included)
18 Jan More Americans killed in gun deaths than in terrorist attacks around the world every year
18 Jan Mother kills son who 'failed to learn Koran'
17 Jan Sandy Relief Passes House Despite Conservative Opposition
17 Jan Lawsuit accuses Franklin pastor of abuse
16 Jan Syria's Foreign Rebels Demand Islamic State
16 Jan Florida priest pleads no contest in child sex abuse case
15 Jan Once Again, Senate Republicans Reject International Human Rights
15 Jan Priest, ex-teacher face sex-abuse trial in Philadelphia
14 Jan National Climate Assessment Details Stronger Evidence Of Global Warming And Its Impacts
14 Jan No Religious Exemption When It Comes to Abuse
13 Jan Gallup: 'Nones' still on the rise
13 Jan Woman convicted of child pornography linked to anti-gay group
12 Jan Unhinged Tactical Response CEO threatens to 'start killing people' over Obama's gun control
12 Jan 70-year-old priest thrashed and arrested for sexual abuse
11 Jan The White House Just Set Gun Rights Activists Ablaze
11 Jan Sea level rise may be even greater than previously thought
10 Jan Congress less popular than cockroaches and Genghis Khan
10 Jan Homicides Increase After States Adopt 'Stand Your Ground' Laws, Study Finds
09 Jan Tulsa church moves to block rape victim's mother from claiming damages
09 Jan Faith-healer sought medical care while recommending against same for teen
08 Jan Astronomers launch advanced planet search to look for signs of life
08 Jan Priest hid child sex abuse
07 Jan Religion to lose broadcasting perk in Netherlands
07 Jan Bishops investigating US nuns have poor records on sex abuse cases
06 Jan Indiana GOP wants to mandate Lord's Prayer in public schools
06 Jan Child Sex Charges Filed Against Former Priest
05 Jan In U.S. Senate, a record-breaking moment for women
05 Jan Texas atheists upset by 'Merry Christmas bill'
04 Jan House GOP blocks Violence Against Women Act
04 Jan Defrocked priest charged with sexually assaulting boy in 1981
03 Jan Extremism unchecked in schools, secret briefing reveals
03 Jan Wisconsin state Senator: Kwanza is a fake holiday that black people don't even like
02 Jan Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
02 Jan Irish priest is hit with third abuse lawsuit
01 Jan Descent Into Holy War: What's Really Happening in Syria
01 Jan Second priest to be arrested in sexual abuse case