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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio was asking students to exchange bibles for porn magazines Wednesday and that has made some religious leaders angry, according to a report by San Antonio TV station WOAI-TV. At a Wednesday night church service, The Bible is the bond between believers, but on the University of Texas at San Antonio campus a group of students were calling scripture - smut. “We consider The Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student Ryan Walker told WOAI-TV. He is part...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Gordon B. Hinckley never expected any of this. Not living to the age of 95, and certainly not becoming president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "Oh, no. Never in my wildest dreams, of course, as a young man did I ever think ... no," Hinckley said during a rare conversation with reporters at church offices in Salt Lake City on Monday. "At one time I had the ambition to do what you're doing. What a wonderful thing it was that I escaped that," he joked. Hinckley instead went to work in church...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University Interim President Hunter Rawlings III on Friday condemned the teaching of intelligent design as science, calling it "a religious belief masquerading as a secular idea." "Intelligent design is not valid science," Rawlings told nearly 700 trustees, faculty and other school officials attending Cornell's annual board meeting. "It has no ability to develop new knowledge through hypothesis testing, modification of the original theory based on experimental results and renewed testing through more refined experiments that yield still more refinements and insights," Rawlings said. Rawlings, Cornell's president from 1995 to 2003, is now serving as interim president...

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Im so glad Jennings is dead in hell! I couldn't stand listening to all that liberal pro freedom bable. Jennings was an evil wicked communist who touted evil values such as religious freedom, freedom of speech and racial equality which as Debbie Schlussel stated after 9/11 are all anethema to genuine western values and are the reason we were attacked! Do you not know that the constitution of the USSR guarentees freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press?! IT'S true! That's why they were EEEEEVILL! Ever since we've adopted those planks, our nation has fell...

OMAHA, Neb. -- Doug Hall's story is the story of an addict. Recovering for years from a drug addiction and alcoholism, his latest battle is pornography. Hall said he went from Playboy, to videos, to online porn, to jail. "My view of sex was all a skewed," Hall said. Hall said his addiction began simply. Years ago he saw his father reading a Playboy magazine. "First it was Playboy and then it's Penthouse, then it's Hustler, then it's -- you just name it. Name your poison," Hall said. When Hall turned to videos, he said, he couldn't wait to get...

Gay Episcopal bishop vote delayed over charges of pornography and bad conduct. Further information forthcoming.

Pray for the man on the far left holding up the peace sign. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo told President Bush on June 7, 2002 her government would hold Muslim rebels linked to Osama bin Laden accountable for the death of American missionary Martin Burnhams, held hostage with his wife for more than a year. The Burnhams are seem with Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrilla leader Abu Sabaya (L) in a hideout on Basilan island, the southern Philippines, in this undated file photo. (Reuters)