From New Humanist, who gave the silliest sermon or pious pronouncement of the past year? Thousands of you voted and the results are in for the Bad Faith Awards 2010. A review of In the Name of God: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence by John Teehan. A review of Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals and Meaning by Nancy Pearcey. Victor Stenger on the origins of religion. Simon Muwowo and Johan Buitendag on Anton Szandor LaVey’s Philosophy of Indulgence reflected in The Satanic Bible (1969) as a dogma based assault on Scripture. Concerns about the face of Christianity have led a former atheist to form a non-profit to address the perceived hypocrisy of the church. From Christian Century, do the Family Research Council and other antigay groups qualify as "hate groups"? The SPLC makes a persuasive case that they do. On their way out: What exit interviews could teach us about lapsed Catholics. Stephen F. Uhl on atheist ethics: Who decides what is good? The ruins of discontinuity: Looking for answers to the fragmentation of Catholic theology in America. Faith-based folly: Would religious studies classes create more problems than they would solve? A review of Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics by Mary Warnock. What did Jesus sing? For 2,000 years, we didn’t know the answer — but now, musicology and ethnomusicology have given us some clues.
