Is ‘Religious Trauma Syndrome’ (RTS) For Real?
I’m of two minds when it comes to the existence of a mental affliction that some psychiatrists and psychologists, like Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico, have been banging the drum about. It’s called...
View ArticleTime Discovers Faith’s Dark Side
In my lifetime, people of faith will probably always be allowed more manifestations of loopiness than non-believers. If, as a secular American, I go around licking fenceposts every afternoon, and...
View ArticlePsst! Wanna Buy a Fake Car From This Prophet?
Got Ferrari taste but a Toyota budget? No problem. The good people at Super Replicas, a Panama-based company that purports to sell perfect supercar knockoffs, will gladly take your money. But will you...
View ArticleMore Education = Less Religion
Does more education lead to less religion? Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner says yes, and he bases that on a study by Daniel Hungerman, an economist at Notre Dame who studies religious faith....
View ArticleA Nation of Believers … In Just About Anything
Irrational beliefs are alive and well in the United States. For instance, One in five Republican voters believes Barack Obama is the ‘antichrist’ and nearly a third of all Americans think a secret...
View ArticleEew, Eel! Don’t Tell the Anti-Gay-Marriage Crowd
I’ve frequently heard from rightwing Christians that if we let men marry men, and women marry women, we’ll have to let them marry chickens and dogs too, and soon they’ll all be having butt sex with...
View ArticleReligious People Score Embarrassingly Low on Knowledge of Their Holy Texts;...
I remember reading about this study when it came out, in 2010, but I’d never seen this illuminating CNN interview with the chief authors. Tip of the hat to reddit. Also, per the screenshot below, I...
View ArticleIt’s Fish Friday in Utah!
Catholics continue their covert conversion of Mormons: About 75,000 pounds of frozen crab meat — more than 37 tons — spilled out of a truck leaving Salt Lake City. The trailer toppled over near dawn...
View ArticleEx-Mormon Bishop Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Girls From His Church
Another one bites the dust: Murrieta (Calif.) resident Todd Mitchell Edwards, 49, is accused of sexually assaulting two teenage girls who reportedly went to the church where he was a bishop at one...
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