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Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title. Text scanned (OCR) by Richard MusselwhiteImages scanned by Richard MusselwhiteText encoded by Jill KuhnFirst edition, 1999ca. 560KAcademic Affairs Library, UNC-CHUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,1999. Source Description:The Religious Instruction of the Negroes. In the United States.Charles C. […]
FEBRUARY 28, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Speaking Truth To Power: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams conservative Christians for using “religious freedom” as a cover for “bigotry and discrimination.” Speaking at a House hearing entitled “The Administration’s Religious Liberty Assault on LGBTQ Rights” earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez went after conservative Christians trying to weaponize “religious freedom,” at one point declaring: […]
FEBRUARY 25, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Faith Healing Kills: Conservative Christian parents in Michigan who refused to get their dying daughter medical attention because of “religious reasons” now face 25 years to life in prison. The Cedars Spring Post reports: Seth Michael Welch, 28, was found guilty of felony murder and first-degree child abuse for the death […]
February 27, 2020 The Freedom From Religion Foundation today, Feb. 27, filed a federal lawsuit against Puerto Rico’s Education Secretary and a principal on behalf of a family subjected to forced prayers and bullying in a public primary school. Since September 2019, in direct contradiction of well-established constitutional law, officials at the Luis M. Santiago School, a […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 9, 2020 In 2015, Tennessee State Rep. Jerry Sexton filed a bill to make the Holy Bible the official state book. It didn’t work. While the bill passed in the House, the Senate did nothing with it, in part because even Attorney General Herbert Slatery said it was unconstitutional. In 2016, Sexton’s GOP colleague State Sen. Steve […]
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY COURTNEY HEARD Yesterday morning I got this note in my inbox: Hello Godless, I saw you speak of your non-profit work on Instagram. I just thought I would write to you to tell you that you’re the sort of person Jesus would want to befriend. If you open your heart and accept […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 9, 2020 An 80-year-old retired professor has given the University of Texas a $1 million endowment to study Secular Americans. Brian Bolton gave the money to UT — a school he has no formal connection to — in the hopes that a professor would study the ever-growing segment of non-religious people in the country. […]
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY JAMES A. HAUGHT By James A. Haught Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey helped create a four-season television series – “Greenleaf” – about a black megachurch where worshipers whoop, sway, dance, wave arms, squeal, shout and shell out truckloads of money. Some commentators say the series “shows the best and worst of Christianity,” […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 10, 2020 For more than a decade now, we’ve been seeing stories about how younger people were becoming increasingly non-religious. Each new generation seemed to include a larger segment of “Nones.” That may finally be changing. It’s not that people are suddenly finding God or anything, but the percentage of Nones may […]
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY FELLOW DYING INMATE Evangelists were elites representing two percent of the total population who could read and write—because their context was far removed from the Galilee, sometimes they are at a loss to understand the sayings and stories of Jesus. Evangelists, pray for us! Being a disciple of Jesus has never been easy. […]
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE At the heart of the Nicene Creed are these words: “And [we believe] in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with […]
FEBRUARY 9, 2020 BY JONATHAN AIGNER I think it’s a legitimate question. I should probably included a disclaimer here. If you’re not already concerned with bad worship in the church, or if you’re blissfully unaware that such a thing exists, you may not like this post. You should read it anyway, because you need to know. […]
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE This report is delicious for people like myself, who have long maintained that FOX News spread disinformation and lies, that their ideological bias distorts truth beyond the limits of credibility. Well, now FOX have admitted this themselves in an internal report. I wonder what regular commenters here who defend […]
BY BETH STONEBURNER FEBRUARY 7, 2020 Christian blogger and professional mommy-shamer Lori Alexander has never met a conservative Christian talking point she didn’t like (or write about). This week, the topic is child discipline. Or, as normal people call it, child abuse. There are too many children who are being left to themselves. Their parents aren’t disciplining, nor are […]
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 7, 2020 In most cases, LGBTQ conversion therapy and religion go hand in hand. But that’s not always true. Infamous Twitter personality Graham Linehan is here with a timely reminder that atheists, too, can peddle cruelty and hate in exchange for notoriety. Once upon a time, Linehan was an Irish comedy writer known for his […]
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 8, 2020 It turns out Virginia really is for lovers. Now that the state legislature has passed the Virginia Values Act, the motto applies even to lovers of the same sex, as well as everyone else in the state’s LGBTQ community. The historic legislation establishes gender identity and sexual orientation as protected classes […]
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 9, 2020 The homepage for Christian women’s website Girl Defined — all pastel and floral and sweetly feminine — promises to help visitors with “getting back to God’s design.” For Christian sisters Kristen Clark and Bethany Beal, the site’s founders and proprietors, that means giving a lot of thought to a very specific image of dating, […]
FEBRUARY 3, 2020 BY LIBBY ANNE Could Noah’s Ark Have Been Made of Wood? reads an Answers in Genesis headline. What interested me more was the summary on my feed reader. Say what now? There’s a sort of flippancy to their statement. It sounds like something a flippant atheist would say to summarize Answers in Genesis’ position. […]