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4 Reasons Atheists Have to Fight for Their Rights

By Greta Christina / AlterNet

In the U.S., atheists have laws protecting them. But laws aren't always obeyed, or enforced -- and fighting for legal rights can have dire consequences.

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Why Is America's Most Progressive Voting Bloc Often Overlooked?

By Adam Lee / AlterNet

Too “Sinful” to Fry Chicken? How Chick-fil-A Pushes Conservative Christianity On Its Workers

By Josh Eidelson / Salon

I Was One of America's Top Psychics -- And Like All of Them, a Complete Fraud

By Mark Edward / Feral House

The 5 Most Awful Atheists

By Ian Murphy / AlterNet

10 Ridiculous Christian Right Prophesies

Why Do Christian Megapastors Keep Getting Caught in Sordid Sex Scandals?

9 Questions That Atheists Might Find Insulting (And the Answers)

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Belief

Does Mitt Romney Think He Is a Son of Abraham and That the Land of Zion Will Be his Inheritance?

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

Right-Wing Rhetoric Heats Up, As Talk of Nazis Enters the Conversation

Frederick Clarkson / Religion Dispatches

The War on Workers' Religious Liberty

Amanda Marcotte / RH Reality Check

Forced Out of School and Church, Watching Friends Commit Suicide: What It's Like Growing Up Gay and Mormon

Carey Purcell / AlterNet

Can Towns Bar Chick-fil-A From Opening New Stores for Its Explicit Anti-Gay Stance?

Sam Sacks / AlterNet

Mitt Romney Disses Palestinians, Mexicans -- Who’s Next?

Ira Chernus / AlterNet

"Us vs Them": A Simple Recipe to Prevent Strong Society from Forming

James Rohrer / AlterNet

5 Ways Churches Get Preferential Treatment and Benefit from Legal Loopholes

Rob Boston / AlterNet

A Bible-Based Approach to Health Care: Something Ails You? You Might Be Possessed by a Devil

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

Romney Campaign's Race-Baiting Strategy Could Have Dire Consequences for America

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Are Progressives Harming the Cause by Attacking Organized Religion and People of Faith?

James Rohrer / AlterNet

David Ray Griffin: How a Retired Theologian Became a High Priest of the 9/11 Truth Movement

Jan Frel / AlterNet

Christianity V. Empathy

Pepe Lopez Waldron / AlterNet

Romney Meets With Leader of Radical Christian Group, Despite Extremism Exposed By Their New Hire

Peter Montgomery / AlterNet

Is Religion a Rorschach Test?

Greta Christina / AlterNet

Not Even God Can Stop Teens from Having Sex: Do Evangelicals Finally Realize This?

Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel

How the Student Loans Debate Got Religion

Christa Hillstrom / YES! Magazine

Hope Is For The Lazy: The Challenge Of Our Dead World

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Why Don't Americans See Climate Change As A Moral Imperative?

KC Golden / Getting A Grip On Climate Solutions

What Happened When I Tried to Leave the Mormon Church -- 3 Times

Rachel Velamur / Salon

What Happens When Atheists Confront Mortality

Tom Jacobs / Pacific Standard

Conservative Christianity's Marketing Gimmick to Keep Its Old-Time, Heaven-and-Hell Religion Afloat

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

Six Reasons We Can't Change The Future Without Progressive Religion

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Red, White, and Blue No Longer: Religion and A Non-White American Future

Peter Laarman / Religion Dispatches

The Biggest Threats We Face From Conservative Religion

Adam Lee / AlterNet

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