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Religious people continue to amuse me and sometimes baffle me. Whether it's the Pope being asked to resign over lifting the excommunicat...

That old maxim taught in Quantum Mechanics 101, the one about how the experimenter always affects the experiment, holds true in the Macro Wo...

The square and compasses lies in pieces, smashed to the ground while being removed from the Masonic temple building in Elgin, Illinois, now ...

Say you're the minister of a tiny Lutheran church in a small town in a state few can even recall the capital of. How do you get your na...

In October we reported on a fundamentalist church in Elgin, Illinois that had petitioned their city council to allow them to remove Masonic...

Christians are a strange bunch. Oh, sorry. I mean, some Christians are a strange bunch. I promised I wouldn't "paint with a broad ...

There are two quotations from famous Discordians that have always made a lot of sense to me. Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill wrote Principia D...

If belief creates reality, it's no wonder we're living in a Bizarro World. The First Amendment Center just released its 2007 survey ...

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I've been looking around on various Masonic forums lately, and I see an awful lot of Masons accusing each other of violating their oblig...

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Just when I thought I'd seen all the stupid anti-Masonic videos that whacked-out fundamentalist Christians could create and upload to Yo...

Last week the U.S. Senate had a Hindu priest give their opening invocation. As Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at a Hindu temple...

Quite often someone leaves a comment on The Burning Taper suggesting I "apparently have a problem with Christians." It's not ...

Warning: This article contains the F-word. I found a website yesterday that is not only amazingly amusing, but downright frightening in what...

Remember that ridiculously strange 'Corn, Wine and Oil' video excerpt that "exposed" Masons as Baal worshipers that we ta...

Bro. Don Tansey of the blog Movable Jewel has already said it better than I could. He said it politely. I'm more prone to ranting when i...