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The Pew Forum claims 1 in 5 atheists believe in God.
Atheists have the will to believe?

Wiccan kit -- $150 OBO.

The number of neopagans roughly doubles about every 18 months in the United States, Canada and Europe, according to the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.
Neopaganism, whether a careful reconstruction of ancient practice or a completely modern interpretation of ancient lore, is now among the country's fastest-growing religions.

Obama wants to continue -- while tweaking -- Bush's faith-based programs , which would allow religious groups to compete for government funds to perform community social work.

A novel marketing idea:

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Just how hot is Hell?
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UPDATE: "So what I would like to know is, does this exhibit tell the truth?"
Dead Sea Scrolls student

See never-before-exhibited fragments of Genesis and Deuteronomy in an exhibit created specifically for N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), bitterly divided over sexuality and the Bible, set up another confrontation Friday over its ban on ordaining non-celibate gays and lesbians.

The denomination's General Assemblyvoted 54 percent to 46 percent to drop the requirement that would-be ministers, deacons and elders live in "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between and a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness."

LONDON (AP) — The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke out Monday against plans by conservative Anglicans to set up their own global fellowship of those who rejected the liberal teachings of north American and British churches.

Sparks are flying in the 2008 culture wars.
The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, leader of the largest Methodist congregation in the country, launched a website yesterday titled "James Dobson Does Not Speak For Me." The site is a jab at Dobson, a stalwart of the religious right who this week called Sen. Barack Obama's interpretation of the Bible in a 2006 speech distorted "to fit (Obama's) own world view, his own confused theology."

Could this meeting help?: COLUMBUS, Ohio--- If Christian conservatives stay on the sidelines during the fall campaign, presidential hopeful John McCain probably stays in the Senate.