Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/separationofchurchandstate Taxpayers in U.S give religion $83.5 Billion in taxes (not the $71 billion previously reported)  Matt Yglesias thinks we ought to start taxing churches. “Whichever faith you think is the one true faith, it’s undeniable that the majority of this church-spending is going to support false doctrines,” he notes. Even […]

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Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/separationofchurchandstate The time has come for an atheist on the U.S Supreme Court.  Who should replace Antonin Scalia? On Monday, the Times reported that the Justice himself had weighed in on the question: last June, in his dissenting opinion in the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges, Scalia wrote that the […]

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Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/separationofchurchandstate  U.S. churches are now costing taxpayers $71 billion a year. A new study says that tax exempt churches in the United States are costing its citizens $71 billion each year in tax breaks. According to the Secular Policy Institute, religious groups receive $35.3 billions in federal income tax subsidies and […]

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Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/separationofchurchandstate Nigerian lawmakers reject equality bill for women citing the Bible and Sharia law. Nigerian lawmakers on Tuesday (Mar.15), voted against a gender and equal opportunities bill (pdf). The bill, which did not pass a second reading, was aimed at bridging the gap between the rights of men and women in […]

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Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/separationofchurchandstate Russian atheist faces year in jail for denying existence of God during webchat. A man in southern Russia faces a potential jail sentence after he was charged with insulting the feelings of religious believers over an internet exchange in which he wrote that “there is no God”. Viktor Krasnov, 38, […]

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