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While some may not like Ricky Martin’s music, others take offense even with aspects of his personal life, his orientation in particular. Self-proclaimed apostle Wanda Rolón, for one, believes he’s “Hell’s ambassador” and is not afraid to shout it to the four winds.
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29 March 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Katy Perry may be an icon for millions but, where her religious mother is concerned, she’s just a girl who needs to tone down her act for her own good. Mary Perry Hudson is shopping a book about her famous daughter and she holds nothing back about her outrageous and revealing stage outfits.
The singer has ne... |
29 March 2011
06:44 GMT |
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Scientists report in a new research paper that teens and young adults who are in the habit of attending religious functions at least once per week are 50 percent more likely to become fat by middle age. Those who do not attend these activities are at a decreased risk of suffering from obesity at the same age, add res... |
28 March 2011
03:00 GMT |
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The Church of Scientology is turning its members, many of them well off people, into slaves. This may sound like something Anonymous would say, but, this time, it’s FBI’s stance on the way the group deals with its members, it has emerged.
As we also noted earlier today, famous director and screenwrite... |
9 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Screenwriter and director Paul Haggis is coming out with his story about his experience with the Church of Scientology, or Sea Org. Among other things, in a very lengthy interview with The New Yorker, Haggis also reveals Josh Brolin’s brush with the cult. The actor, it would seem, came to Scientology at a time ... |
9 February 2011
04:48 GMT |
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For several years now, experts have been wondering about how religious people would react if they learned about the existence of life on other planets. According to scientists and theologians, this would not be enough to shake their faith.
Most likely, they say, religious people will begin to wonder whether Jesus... |
25 January 2011
02:21 GMT |
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For many, observing the Cosmos is an awe-inspiring experience, or something that frightens them considerably. This is because the Universe is so vast that many people, some astronomers included, cannot stop thinking that a higher power must have been involved in creating it.
When looking at the vastness of our ow... |
21 January 2011
02:19 GMT |
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In what is clearly an unprecedented move, the Vatican has agreed to allow access to some of its files in order for Discovery to be able to produce a new series based on actual cases of exorcism and hauntings, called “The Exorcist Files.”Entertainment Weekly has learned that the series will be based on rea... |
6 January 2011
10:58 GMT |
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A new study carried out by a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist, found that praying can help handle harmful emotions, as it becomes a source of comfort during hard times.Shane Sharp, a graduate student studying sociology at UW-Madison, concluded that three quarters of the Americans who pray on a weekly basis... |
14 December 2010
06:29 GMT |
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The controversial Westboro Baptist Church has announced that it will picket the funerals of Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, this weekend, in what is deemed another hate-filled and unnecessary campaign. The WBC is known for picketing funerals of American soldiers, for their signs... |
10 December 2010
10:01 GMT |
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There is a long-known relationship between religion and life satisfaction, but that 'secret ingredient' that makes religious people happy, has just been revealed in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.The findings of the study can be applied to the three main Christian traditions in the U... |
7 December 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Exorcism movies are back: after Eli Roth’s “The Last Exorcism” made a killing at the US box office, fans of the horror genre should brace themselves for another – this time bigger – release: “The Rite” with Anthony Hopkins. The film doesn’t arrive in theaters until Janu... |
21 October 2010
06:52 GMT |
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This is a story in which science proves that having faith in something or someone actually helps, as a new study found that religiosity actually prolongs life span, after a liver transplant.Italian researchers concluded that liver transplant candidates who have a strong faith, regardless of the religion, also have be... |
30 September 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Ice cream may be a wonderful treat at any time of day, especially in the summer, but ads for it depicting pregnant nuns are offensive, the Advertising Standards Authority has decided after receiving complaints about one such ad. According to the Guardian, Catholics in the UK took offense at the printed ad and complai... |
16 September 2010
05:08 GMT |
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AppTech Corp. has completed its first application designed for the Christian community throughout the world, the company announced today. It is called “the Jesus app.”AppTech Global, Inc. is a subsidiary of AppTech Corp. It develops mobile application market places serving emerging countries throughout th... |
8 September 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Belief in God can be a powerful thing, people usually say, but a new research shows that the power may not be used to do good. A team of investigators found in a new research that people who had been primed before experiments to think about God were less likely to experience anxiety related to making mistakes. This c... |
6 August 2010
08:21 GMT |
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They’ve picked on Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, American soldiers and, most fervently, on gay men and women, but protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church have now a new target in the person of pop idol Justin Bieber. The WBC, led by Reverend Fred Phelps is trying to argue that, though we might not be aware of it,... |
31 July 2010
06:23 GMT |
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E3 was pretty high powered this year, with Nintendo unleashing the industry changing Nintendo 3DS, the handheld that can deliver full three-dimensional gaming without any glasses, and with Sony and Microsoft really working hard to show off the motion tracking abilities of the PlayStation Move and, respectively, Kinec... |
21 June 2010
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Megan Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church is back attacking Lady Gaga for her music and the message she’s sending out to impressionable people who make the mistake of buying her albums. After doing a parody of “Poker Face,” Roper took “Telephone” and turned it into “Ever Bu... |
2 June 2010
08:46 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently published the results of a new research, which sought to determine changes in church attendance patterns over the past 35 years. Their work used a new multi-level estimation method to determine both the number of people using places of worship, a... |
15 April 2010
18:01 GMT |
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According to new data, it would appear that people tend to be fair and trusting in strangers for reasons that are different than the initially-suspected ones. In previous studies, it has been proposed that individuals tend to trust people they've just met on account of the fact that they unconsciously transferre... |
19 March 2010
04:32 GMT |
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A new scientific investigation has recently revealed that most American citizens believe that God plays a very important part in their lives. They think that divine power helps them decide on their everyday problems, and also that it inspires them in their choices. The US citizens also believe that God has a vested i... |
11 March 2010
03:03 GMT |
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Renowned televangelist and “media host” Pat Robertson never misses an opportunity to capitalize on other people's misery to promote what he refers to as “God's work.” Naturally, when he got the opportunity to discuss the massive earthquake that struck the poor nation of Haiti, he wen... |
14 January 2010
04:58 GMT |
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The Westboro Baptist Church claims “God hates Lady Gaga,” for reasons known only to them and Reverend Fred Phelps, who also initiated the campaign. Convinced that this was the absolute truth, the Rev. even vouched to boycott Gaga’s January 7 concert at Fox Theater. However, he was snowed in and coul... |
8 January 2010
10:17 GMT |
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As the Tiger Woods scandal, which broke in November last year after he smashed his car into a fire hydrant and then a tree, presumably still dazed from the hits he had received from his angry wife, shows the first signs of dying down, the number of people offering him free advice is on the rise. Among them is also fo... |
5 January 2010
10:24 GMT |
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We may see some religious groups complaining about video games and violence, but it looks like, if Christian Rock can exist, then so can Christian Video Games. While most of your minds just flew with the speed of light to Dante's Inferno and its Mass: We Pray, it looks like this isn't just some publicity st... |
30 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Lady Gaga has been named by several publications the hottest singer of 2009, an artist who managed to forge her own sound and style, thus bringing a breath of fresh air on the pop scene. She is also famous for her fashion sense and the out of the ordinary outfits she usually dons in public. For Reverend Fred Phelps o... |
28 December 2009
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A new study by the respected organization Pew Research Center has recently determined that Americans living in the United States tend to have a contradictory set of beliefs, but that they are willing to accept them together. The work may lead to new investigations into the human mind, which seems to be able to dismis... |
11 December 2009
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Dieting has seemingly never been that easy as it is with the Jesus diet – whichever that might be, but still part of a soaring nutritional trend. However, unlike fad diets, which can never guarantee good results in the long run, dieting with the help of religion is certain to work, supporters of the trend promi... |
23 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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I don't think it's a secret that I have something against organized religion. I've never tried to keep that a secret, and I've struggled to explain why throughout my articles. In my quest to discover people with similar points of view to my own, I came across some fairly interesting speakers, as w... |
21 November 2009
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Scientists at the I-STEM Institute have recently announced the development of a new type of artificial skin cells, which was obtained directly from human embryonic stem cells. In a paper published in the November 21 issue of the scientific journal Lancet, the team reports that the entire epidermis was created using h... |
20 November 2009
10:49 GMT |
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A lot of people are complaining about the fact that Dragon Age: Origins is formulaic when it comes to the characters, the setting, and the story. Someone has even compiled a list of tropes which show up in all BioWare role playing games, from Baldur's Gate to Mass Effect. But after about 12 to 15 hours into Drag... |
13 November 2009
18:21 GMT |
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The Church has undoubtedly lost a lot of its importance in society over the last centuries. As science and its ideas progressed, more and more people with access to books started questioning the established dogmas. Once the state got separated from the Church, the institution's role has decreased even further. I... |
8 October 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Despite the fact that religion is present in all cultures, and it is widely promoted around the world, scientists have yet to determine if religious belief is in any way different from normal cognition. While it is clear that the human brain reacts differently to religious or non-religious statements, the basic mecha... |
5 October 2009
17:11 GMT |
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A new investigation in some of the United States' most religious regions has revealed that states that are highly religious, and where people are most conservative, tend to have higher teen-pregnancy and birth rates than other areas of the country. The researchers in charge of the paper say that a large number o... |
17 September 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Bruce Hood, professor of developmental psychology at the Bristol University, may have come up with the perfect explanation why religion is such an integrant part of our lives – or, at least, for some of us. Going against what atheists say that religion is often only the result of a lack of education, Hood&rsquo... |
7 September 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Michigan have recently released a new research, detailing their belief on how college major options influence religious belief, and vice versa. Broadly, they have determined that those majoring in humanities and social sciences tend to become less religious than the average, whereas th... |
3 August 2009
18:51 GMT |
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Just in case anyone still doubted that the two “Transformers” films were a massive hit, a new religion has just been set up by fans of leading man Shia LaBeouf. Called Shiantology and boasting that it’s more than just a religion, actually a “way of life,” the new cult has been set up by ... |
30 July 2009
06:34 GMT |
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An old saying has it that “you made your bed and now you have to sleep in it.” It’s precisely the metaphorical sleeping part that bothers director and actor Mel Gibson the most, since he simply can’t stand having his fellow parishioners judging him for his affair and the yet unborn child it le... |
2 June 2009
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A new study published in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that young women in their teens or early twenties who have attended religious schools are more likely than their peers to get an abortion, despite their beliefs. In fact, the research points out, these girls are more likely tha... |
2 June 2009
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Psychologists have known for a long time that certain socio-economic factors such as the place of birth, the education, religion, or interactions with others can shape an individual's perceptions of the most important things in life. But the correlations between religion and torture have never been analyzed from... |
14 May 2009
04:42 GMT |
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In the eve of the Passover holiday, archaeologists from the University of Haifa have just discovered a large, foot-shaped enclosure, of the kind that was described in the Bible as the place where the people of Israel would gather their armies, practice religious rituals, as well as conduct other ceremonies. Prof. Ada... |
7 April 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Salah, the official prayer of the Islam, must be practiced by each adept of the religion five times per day, in prostration to Allah. Regularly, the prayers are done at dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset and nightfall, and missing them is considered to be a sin. They are also compulsory to all those who have reached puber... |
6 April 2009
10:25 GMT |
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The Texas State Board of Education has just recently come under increased pressure from science groups, which urge the authority to drop plans of introducing a new amendment in the state's learning programs, to question the proven principle that life descended from the same common ancestor. Because key officials... |
25 March 2009
05:07 GMT |
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The thing that makes us human is our self-awareness and the fact that we are able to identify our present selves with our “old” ones. This means that every action we have carried out since we were born is part of who we are and also shapes our future development, even if some of us are ashamed to admit it... |
21 March 2009
07:57 GMT |
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While religion is a matter of individual choice, a new study comes to show that one’s end may be highly influenced by whether they believe in a higher power or not. Conducted on terminally-ill cancer patients, the research clearly demonstrates that those with firm religious beliefs are more likely to require or... |
18 March 2009
16:51 GMT |
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According to a number of recent scientific investigations, people who believe devoutly are less likely than non-believers to second-guess themselves when answering questions in a test, even though their answers have been wrong. They also display lower brain activities in areas of the cortex associated with anxiety. O... |
18 March 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Well-renowned for his work in the field of quantum mechanics and theoretical physics, French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d'Espagnat has won the Templeton Prize this year, amounting to one million British pounds ($1.4 million), for his concept of a “hypercosmic God.” The scientist wil... |
16 March 2009
10:59 GMT |
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Recent archaeological digs in Guatemala have unearthed a monumental set of stucco panels, which seem to depict one of the oldest enduring creation myths in human history. The new find also suggests that the Mayan people believed in this story named Popol Vuh for more than a millennium, and that it was the main focus ... |
13 March 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, researchers have been deeply interested in the way men and women perceive the notion of a god, or a higher, universal spirit. During the first such research, it came as no surprise to anyone that women believed in such entities more than men, but, in truth, no one could say for sure why tha... |
2 March 2009
03:57 GMT |
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