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BOSTON, MA—The Unitarian Universalist Association revealed its new logo to much buzz and fanfare Friday morning. Replacing its previous logo consisting of a flaming chalice, the new logo is a shrugging emoji man, said to represent the religious group’s lack of certain belief in any doctrine or creed at all. “We wanted our new logo to send a strong message about what we believe,” UUA President Reverend Peter Morales told reporters gathered in front of a large banner with the new logo, unfurled just moment before. “And we have no idea what we believe, really. So the shrugging man is...

It’s no magical coincidence either that atheist Christopher Hitchens moved to the United States – or that sulking secularists tend to immigrate to Christian-majority nations, as opposed to godless states. I call this taking advantage. On some level, the pretend victim knows that he or she has a highly developed faith, and is often drawn to explicit, more evolved and open faith islands, to preach his or her “good news” narratives (from discredited Darwin-inspired eugenics to absurd manmade global-warming predictions). To disagree too is sheer blasphemy. Wounded by the supposed ignorance of others, many atheists see themselves and/or their fellow...

Why would anyone deliberately turn his or her back on the truth? I found myself asking this question many years ago, after an encounter with America’s most famous atheist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair—a story that I tell in my new book, The Good Life. You probably will recall that it was O’Hair who brought the court case that eliminated official public school prayers in 1963. Mrs. O’Hair and I had been invited to debate the topic of Christianity on David Frost’s NBC variety program. I was aware that she knew the subject well, because she graduated from an evangelical college, and...

Prosecutor: inmate convicted in atheist's plot dies in prison 02/04/2003 The Associated PressSAN ANTONIO — A prosecutor says the man convicted in the extortion plot that ended in the slaying of atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair has died in prison.David R. Waters had suffered from poor health since his sentencing on a federal extortion charge in O'Hair's death.Assistant U.S Attorney Gerald Carruth of Austin, who prosecuted Waters and once described him in court as "a depraved recidivist," learned of his death Monday."We always have believed and still believe that Mr. Waters was the mastermind of this plot," Carruth told the...