Some people have the idea that they are some how special, that they have some opinion, heritage, trait or belief that separates them or their group from the rest, something that makes them special. Christians believe that there "sins" are forgiven, Jews believe that Jews are Yahweh chosen people, people of all religions believe they [...]

Police Search for Missing Religious Group LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles sheriff deputies searched across the Antelope Valley on Sunday for 13 members of a cult-like church whose mysterious disappearance on Saturday raised concerns that they had made a suicide pact, authorities said. The group included six children. At least two members of the church [...]

By fraserdldavidson Found at Unreasonable Faith

A utopia is a perfect (or close too it) society free from the problems that plague real societies. You can find utopianists throughout the spectrum's but mostly on the edges. Authoritarians are utopianits as well are anarchists, there are atheistic utopianists who thing if we get rid of religion the world will be at peace [...]

Faith complicates a young mother's life-or-death decision on lung transplant [overly long contrived explanation of Maribel Perez situation] So it was nothing less than shattering when, miraculously, a few weeks ago, one of the world's largest lung-transplant programs, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, agreed to take her, and Perez said no. Her reason [...]

Ex-Scientologists to expose alleged abuse HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Former Scientologists are suing the Church of Scientology for abuse they allegedly suffered while working for them. They spoke about the abuse publically for the first time Friday. "I was personally beat up on five separate occasions by the head of Scientology, David Muscavitch," said former [...]

Scientologests have gone down to Haiti to heal people with their theaten free magic. They believe that they can heal by touching people. Ravi Somaiya at Gawker has talked to someone who traveled to Haiti with some scientologists. I knew we were traveling with doctors and EMTs, but I didn't expect to see 50 scientologists, [...]

I can take criticism, in fact I go beyond able to take criticism, I ask for it. Now I have philosophical reasons for wanting criticism (If my beliefs and opinions can't stand up to criticism then I should drop those opinions and beliefs). But some can't and those people are who this is aimed at. [...]

I was originally going to publish this at Associated Content but they don't give up front payments for opinion articles so I published it there under a non-exclusive license and will publish it else where including my blog. Introduction Beliefs in gods is as old as civilization as is religion. But is the belief in [...]