A Message to Those Praying for Christopher Hitchens On behalf of Christopher Hitchens, who thinks all of this skydaddy talk is ridiculous, thanks to all of you who wrote in to Goldblog to report that they would be praying for him as he undergoes treatment for esophageal cancer (you can hear him talk about his [...]

Horray for pointlessly dangerous rituals! Baby Drowns During Baptism A priest in eastern Europe has been accused of drowning a baby boy as he baptised him. Police are investigating Father Valentin for accidential homicide after witnesses at the ceremony said the priest did not cover the baby’s mouth during the ritual, The Sun newspaper reports. Father [...]

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Threatened with Prosecution, Death by Pakistan Legal Authorities It seems that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is under investigation by Pakistani legal authorities for violation of that country’s anti-blasphemy laws surrounding the recent Draw Muhammed contest. The penalty for violating the Pakistani anti-blasphemy law can be death. Section 295-C of the Pakistani penal code [...]

Baby ‘starved to death’ because he did not say Amen For more than a week, Ria Ramkissoon watched passively as her one-year-old son wasted away, denied food and water because the older woman she lived with said it was God’s will. Javon Thompson was possessed by an evil spirit, Ramkissoon was told, because he didn’t [...]

Lets all say it together: THANKS RELIGION! Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year About 70,000 women die every year and many more suffer harm as a result of unsafe abortions in countries with restrictive laws on ending a pregnancy, according to a report. The total number of abortions across the globe has fallen, the influential [...]

ho⋅me⋅op⋅a⋅thy: –noun; the method of treating disease by pseudo-scientific bullshit methods, that often causes a marginally sick person with curable  illnesses or diseases to degrade and become critically or terminally ill; similar to religion  (opposed to LOGIC, SCIENCE, MEDICINE, SANITY, NON-RETARDED-BULLSHIT ). Jail for parents who allowed daughter to die A couple who failed to [...]

‘They Want to Destroy Christians’ GOJRA, Pakistan, Aug. 2 — They do not want to bury the Christians. They want the nation to see them. By nightfall Sunday, hundreds of residents of the Christian enclave here stood in defiant vigil around seven particleboard coffins neatly aligned on the train tracks that run through town. They [...]

Interesting Tidbit: Apparently it’s normal for a rabbi to suck a baby’s penis after circumcising it… that sound totally normal; doesn’t it? Rabbi probed for circumcised infants’ herpes – Baby died from disease after undergoing procedure City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract [...]

Islam and the Myths of Unity and Peace The so-called Islamic world is in crisis because many see enemies all over the place, be it democracy, Westernization, liberalism, socialism, and so forth. While alternative faiths are frowned upon, therefore, Christian and Buddhist missionaries must be aware for merely talking about your faith can mean either [...]

Parents in faith-healing case never considered calling a doctor OREGON CITY — Carl and Raylene Worthington told detectives that they never considered calling a doctor, even as their 15-month-old daughter deteriorated and died. “I don’t believe in them,” Carl Worthington said of doctors. “I believe in faith healing.” Raylene Worthington said that her religious beliefs [...]