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Ariz. Teens: Call Us When You Need An Exorcism

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:30:00 CDT

There's a lot of evil in Arizona. Now the state has its own exorcism squad of teen girls who boast they've successfully cast out demons. "We're just normal girls who do something extraordinary for God," one of the trio, 17-year-old Brynne Larson, tells ABC News . "After seeing an actual exorcism,...

Atheist Richard Dawkins: God Might Exist

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:37:05 CST

World-famous atheist Richard Dawkins said in a debate this week that he's at least a little bit agnostic, the Telegraph reports. Sharing an Oxford University stage with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, Dawkins said he was “6.9 out of seven” certain of his atheism. “I think the...

Bachmann: God Wants Me to Run

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:21:00 CDT

Who knew God kept tabs on GOP party politics? Apparently, he gives Michele Bachmann an inner "sense" about what office to seek when she consults him. "Did God tell you he wanted you to run for the Minnesota State Senate, or something like that?" Bob Schieffer asked yesterday on CBS...

Glenn Beck: Quake Was Message From God

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:06:00 CDT

Japan's massive earthquake was probably a message from God, and Glenn Beck says the big guy's clearly not very happy. So what's the message? It's not entirely clear, but what we're doing is all wrong, and we should be following the Ten Commandments, not like "radical" Islamists, Beck counsels. "We...

God Is Getting More Snail Mail This Year

Matt Cantor — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:43:30 CST

Letters to the North Pole are common, but this year has seen notable quantities of letters to a different address: Heaven. “In the 10 years I've been doing this, I've seen maybe two or three letters addressed to heaven," one Florida postal worker tell the St. Petersburg Times . "This year,...

Gawker Finds God —on Google Street View

Nick McMaster — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:11:02 CDT

Not even the almighty is safe from Google's cameras. Or so it appears, based on an image on Google Street View taken over a lake in Switzerland, notes Gawker . "Is it something on the camera lens?" asks Max Read. "Or is it maybe... God and His only begotten Son ?"

God's Not Male, at Least Not at One Church

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:06:42 CDT

God is no longer a "he," at least according to the Scottish Episcopal Church. Its bishops recently debuted a new order of service that removes all masculine references to God, including but not limited to "Lord," "he," "his," and "him," the Daily Mail reports. Priests who have problems with the...

Religious Leaders Slam 'Godless' Hawking

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:29 CDT

Angry religious leaders are slamming "Godless" physicist Stephen Hawking for saying the universe likely created itself without any divine intervention. “Belief in God is not about plugging a gap in explaining how one thing relates to another within the universe," the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams tells the Times of...

Hawking: Universe Didn't Need God to Begin

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:36:55 CDT

The universe didn't need God to begin; it was quite capable of launching its existence on its own, thank you very much, says reknowned physicist Stephen Hawking. The universe began with the Big Bang, which simply followed the inevitable law of physics, the scientist writes. “Because there is a law...