http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 22:30:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42982/atheists-offer-reasons-greetings-in-marketing-blitz.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIt just isn’t the holiday season in America until nonbelievers and the devout begin sparring. This year, the godless are on the offensive, launching a marketing campaign to capitalize on the loosening grip of organized religion, telling neighbors, “We’re just like you,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Next month’s HumanLight celebration is intended as another milestone in their fight to enter America’s mainstream.http://www.newser.com/story/42982/atheists-offer-reasons-greetings-in-marketing-blitz.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 13:17:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42764/muhammad-probably-never-existed-theologian.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAn Islamic professor's belief that Muhammad probably never existed has Muslim groups seething, the Wall Street Journal reports. The German convert to Islam says he cast a critical eye over historical records and found little to indicate the prophet was a real person. Muhammad’s name didn't appear on coins until 60 years after Islam emerged, he notes.http://www.newser.com/story/42764/muhammad-probably-never-existed-theologian.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 15 Nov 2008 2:55:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42652/amish-blast-id-cow-chips-as-mark-of-the-beast.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA group of Amish farmers has launched a federal lawsuit against the USDA claiming that electronic ID tags on cattle are the mark of Satan himself, not merely of the Michigan Animal Identification System, Wired reports. The farmers say the mandatory program, aimed at tracking livestock diseases, violates the "dominion over cattle and all living things" they believe God has granted them.http://www.newser.com/story/42652/amish-blast-id-cow-chips-as-mark-of-the-beast.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 14 Nov 2008 0:32:43 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42571/clooney-slams-gay-marriage-ban.html?refid=rss_all_defaultGeorge Clooney is none too happy with residents of California for passing Proposition 8, reports E! Online. The actor says he looks forward to the day when opponents of gay marriage “will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.”http://www.newser.com/story/42571/clooney-slams-gay-marriage-ban.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 13 Nov 2008 7:27:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41738/catholics-muslims-seek-common-ground-at-vatican.html?refid=rss_all_defaultClerics of the world’s two largest faiths are meeting at the Vatican this week to improve relations between the long-divided communities. Muslim clerics invited Christians to dialogue after comments Pope Benedict made in 2006 that implied Islam was violent and irrational. The mostly male Vatican members and imams will have an audience with the pope Thursday as the meeting culminates, Reuters reports.http://www.newser.com/story/41738/catholics-muslims-seek-common-ground-at-vatican.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 04 Nov 2008 12:32:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41628/is-she-the-last-culture-warrior.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAlthough Sarah Palin says she would be a fresh face in Washington, she really represents the end of a long line of Republican culture warriors, writes Peter Beinart in the Washington Post . "She's depicting the campaign as a struggle between the culturally familiar and the culturally threatening, the culturally traditional and the culturally exotic," but her argument falls flat, and history can explain why.http://www.newser.com/story/41628/is-she-the-last-culture-warrior.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 03 Nov 2008 9:03:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40614/uk-group-raises-80k-for-atheist-bus-ads.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA campaign to plaster London buses with agnostic advertising has far exceeded its fundraising goal, the Guardian reports. The ads, aimed to counter what one writer sees as overbearing Christian messages, will say, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Organizers have raised 10 times more money than their target, and are contemplating an expanded blitz.http://www.newser.com/story/40614/uk-group-raises-80k-for-atheist-bus-ads.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 22 Oct 2008 11:03:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40044/top-evangelical-weighs-candidates.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe presidential race is a contest between different sets of philosophy, writes Richard Cizik, president of the National Association of Evangelicals. In an NAE newsletter, Cizik says Barack Obama is “a thinker who sees the grays in ethical choices” while McCain opts for the “clarity of moral opposites”—and that Obama “has given faith more thought and reflection” than McCain.http://www.newser.com/story/40044/top-evangelical-weighs-candidates.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 15 Oct 2008 15:37:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39680/pentecostal-questions-haunt-palin.html?refid=rss_all_defaultJohn McCain has so far avoided attacking Barack Obama's controversial pastor in what may be a strategy to keep Sarah Palin's preachers out of the spotlight, Time reports. Palin officially left her Pentecostal church before campaigning for lieutenant governor but has made many return visits—including one in 2005 when a bishop prayed to protect her from witchcraft.http://www.newser.com/story/39680/pentecostal-questions-haunt-palin.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 11 Oct 2008 2:19:54 CDT