Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.

The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation.

The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

Read more of Jason Palmer's article here.

28 year old stones 70 year old gay man...because the bible says so. :-|

A 28 year-old Philadelphia-area man admitted he stoned to death a 70 year-old man because the Bible says to stone homosexuals. John Joe Thomas reportedly killed Murray Joseph Seidman, whom he knew, and told police, “I stoned Murray with a rock in a sock,” because he had read in the Bible that gays should be stoned.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “The young man and Seidman were often seen together grocery shopping and going to church,” and “He then described how he placed batteries and rocks in a sock, and hit Seidman in the head at least 10 times.”

Read the rest of David Badash's article here.

Sheriff: Vet claiming to be Jesus shoots parents.

Yep. You read that right.





Seymour, Mo (Springfield News-Leader) -- An enraged Seymour man shot his mother and tried to shoot his father Tuesday night after the couple refused to acknowledge their son as the reincarnated Jesus, Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole said.




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Wow. Totally speechless.

Meet Rev. Ignatius Kury, 35, of the Holy Ghost Ukranian Byzantine Catholic Church on Brown Street in Akron, OH. What a mouth on this little hypocrite. Read the arrest details at Cleveland.com.