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I’ll be at Cal State Bakersfield to give a talk Thursday, Jan. 14. If you are in the area, please drop by.

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Rev. Pat Robertson can work miracles. He can get me out of semi-retirement. This effing douche commented on the Haiti 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 100,000 by saying:
“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” Robertson said on his Christian Broadcasting Network show. “They were [...]

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Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and a snake. So many photo caption possibilities …

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OK, gang. I’m back. Here’s what I love about Christopher Hitchens and his take on Christmas.
I never cease to be amazed by how little the Bible-believing Protestants, who constitute most of the soldiery in the Christmas wars, know about their own tradition. Under the rule of the Puritan Revolution in England, the celebration of Christmas [...]

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From Booklist:
Lobdell’s trajectory from agnosticism to belief to atheism, prompted by covering religion for the Los Angeles Times, is fascinating, ironic, even astonishing.

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Mahony ignored church policy and didn’t inform parishioners about allegations of clergy sexual abuse, one of his top lieutenants testified.

In an institution that supposedly devotes itself to God and truth, you had to wonder: When would someone within Cardinal Roger M. Mahony’s inner circle break ranks and tell the truth about how His Eminence actually [...]

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Tim Rowland, senior pastor of River Oaks Community Church in Goshen, Indiana, recently delivered a sermon based, in part, of my “Losing My Religion” memoir. Christianity could use more incredibly honest pastors such as Rowland. You can listen to the sermon here. I start to get some love after minute 7.

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… for the lack of posts. Just been incredibly busy with two young businesses, the Newport-Mesa Daily Voice (an online local paper) and Greer’s OC (an online website and free daily e-mail that gives the latest in Orange County fashion, dining and trends).
Here’s a video I just made for the Newport-Mesa Daily Voice about being [...]

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Today, the body of Sen. Edward Kennedy traveled from Hyannis Port to Boston along a route that included some of the late politicians favorite places. Spectators cheered respectfully as the hearse went by.
Television and radio reporters talked reverently about Kennedy taking his final trip through Massachusetts. Hello? With all due respect, he wasn’t taking the [...]

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Here’s my travel schedule for the fall.

I’m be the keynote speaker at the ExMormon Foundation 2009 Conference on Oct. 10 in Salt Lake City.
I’m also be speaking at the annual Freedom From Religion convention in Seattle, which takes place on Nov. 6-8.
I’m competing in Ironman Cozumel on Nov. 29 (nothing to do with beliefs, but [...]

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