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Patheos Blogger Loses Book Deal With Nori Publishing After Pro-Gay Advocacy

Brandan Roberston was excited when he signed a book deal with Nori Media Grouplast year, while he was still a student at Chicago’sconservative Moody Bible Institute. Nori represents a rangeof religiousauthors, from Michael Brown on the right to Benjamin Corey on the left. The publisheris home to popular Christian authors includingT.D. Jakes, an abstinence-promotingmegachurch pastor, and Bill Johnson, afifth-generation pastor of a charismatic church in California who happens to bea faith-heali...

Hoax Alert: Father O’Neal, Who Has Met God and Thinks She’s a Woman, Is Made Up (Just Like God Herself)

Not that I’m impossible tofool, butthis is certainly a bit rich (all typos and grammatical errors in the original):

A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart. During that time, Father John Micheal O’neal claims he went to heaven and met God, which he describes as a warm and comforting motherly figure.

That story, in various iterations, has been popping up in my news feed all day. Even apart from...

Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas Just Won Several Awards for Being an Awful Film

As the Academy Awards are tonight, it’s important to find out who won the Razzies, which are given out every year (since 1980) to the worst films and actors that Hollywood has to offer.

We saw the nominee list last month and we finally have a list of winners!

Wanna know the Worst Picture of the year? Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas:

Worst Actor? Kirk Cameron in Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas:

Worst Screen Combo? Kirk Cameron and His Ego in Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas:

Worst Screenplay? Kirk C...

Scientific Facts in the Bible

The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses the scientific facts in the Bible.

A rough transcript of the video can be found on the YouTube page in the “About” section. (Which I’m sure you’ll need in this case.)

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the project — more videos will be posted soon — and we’d also appreciate your suggestions as to which questions we ought to tackle next!

And if you like what you’re seeing, please consider supporting this site on Patreon.

Help an Atheist Charity Get Some Sweet, Sweet Reddit Cash

Reddit recently announced a program in which it will give away 10% of its advertising revenue to various charities. It amounts to more than $82,000 per group.

Well… Foundation Beyond Belief happens to be an excellent non-profit that could use that support!

If you have a Reddit account, please vote for Foundation Beyond Belief here. It’d help us out tremendously if you shared that link far and wide!

Voting ends on Feb. 25.

(This was posted earlier. And it’ll be posted again in a couple of days, da...

Facebook Post Inadvertently Reveals Elementary School Concert Featuring Christian Prayer and Songs About Jesus

In December, Bells Elementary School in Tennessee held a concert that not only opened with Christian prayers, but included songs about Jesus. While Christian music is allowed in holiday concerts, it can’t be so predominant that a reasonable person would suspect the school is promoting Christianity. Whatever the boundary line is, the school clearly crossed it.

And the reason we know it?

People were bragging about it on Facebook:

The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to the district e...

“I Do Not See Him As a Terrorist”: Five Hundred Mourners Attend Funeral of Copenhagen Gunman

You and I should be so lucky to have 500 people show up at our funeral service.

By killing two people last weekendin Copenhagen — a movie director at a free-speech event, and a guard at a synagogue — Islamistterrorist Omar El-Hussein, who was subsequently shot and killed by Danish cops, apparently assured an impressive turnout yesterday.

Omar El-Hussein, 22, was placed in an unmarked grave in the Muslim cemetery in Broendby, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, watched by around 500 people, mostly y...

PSA: Pastor Kindly Reminds You That the Missionary Position is the Only One Approved by God

God, apparently, is very particularabout how man parts and lady parts fittogether. There’s only one right way, and lots of wrong ones. Luckily for us, one of His representatives on Earth, Nigerian-bornPastor Olugbenga Oladejo of the end-time Complete in Christ Church in Peterborough (U.K.), is willing to explain it in some detail. On video.

He says that the only permissible sexual position is the missionary position: “Missionaries of old who taught their converts about true holiness would teac...

When It Comes to Accepting Evolution, Republicans Are an Embarrassment

This is why other countries laugh at us:

Reading through [the list], a sad conclusion emerges: Even those with enough backbone to say that they accept the theory of evolution have tiny brains when it comes to what they know about it. Even more sadly, they assume that they don’t need to know anything about evolution in their line of work.

Even the rare bright spot isn’t really a positive: Mike Huckabee may reject “Intelligent Design,” but only because he firmly believes in Creationism.

(via This...

Porn Crusader, Allegedly Inspired by God, Torches Adult Store in Michigan

A dirty deed done over dirty pictures:

Kalamazoo police say the suspect who set the fire that destroyed an adult store did it in an effort to eliminate pornography from his neighborhood.

The fire broke out at Hollywood Nightson S. Westnedge near Whites Road late Wednesday afternoon. By the time it was out, the building had been leveled. A man who was seen by witnesses leaving the scene of the fire carrying an ax was later arrested after leading police on a brief car chase and then crashing.

Poli...