Convicted sexual predator Kevin Halfmann, who is scheduled to remain incarcerated at least through 2030, says his constitutional rights have been violated since Illinois state prison officials won’t permit him to study the Satanic Bible. Halfmann’s arguments were not well-received Monday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Wilkerson, according to Jesse Bogan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. “He hobbled…

On Tuesday, an internet news site, the Blaze, asked readers “Are some evangelicals beginning to question the existence of Adam and Eve?” “As is the case in all of the faith articles we compose,” writes editor Billy Hollowell, “it was our goal to raise the question and then allow our audience to respond accordingly. So, at the…

When workers were cleaning up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, they found a steel girder that had been sheared on both sides to form a cross. As America cheered, workers raised the cross-shaped steel beam in the midst of the rubble as a symbol of hope. Now an atheist…

Stephen Hawking says God had nothing to do with creating the universe and that the “laws of science” explain how the universe created itself from nothing. He says he has no problem with the idea that the universe just popped into being from nothingness. In the premiere episode of the Discovery Channel’s new science series…

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