IIDB Archive

This is what probably happened: Canadian 911 calls are public records According to diplomatic cables released earlier this year by WikiLeaks, any information entered into the national Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) database is accessible to American authorities. Local police officers take...

update: FFRF Press Release The Freedom From Religion Foundation and its co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker have won a significant ruling with far-reaching ramifications declaring unconstitutional the 1954 “parish exemption” uniquely benefiting “ministers of the gospel.” “May ...

Snakes Today, Bibles Tomorrow? Reality TV show lands serpent-handling millennial pastor in court. On Friday, the 22-year-old star of Snake Salvation and pastor of Tabernacle Church of God in Lafollete pled not guilty to a wildife possession charge—and then continued to handle snakes at his church...

There's more to this than meets the eye, evidently.

A Greek paradox: leveraging Sharia to promote religious freedom

Greeks are concerned about the rights of Christian ethnic Greeks in Turkey, which are somehow mixed up in this issue.

This is a little misleading. The decision was based on an international treaty and the Greek constitution, which recognizes the legal autonomy of the Turkish residents of an area of western Thrace that had at one point declared independence, and then occupied by Bulgaria and France until transferred...

[quote=""joedad""] Someone agrees with me. Prediction I bet the Supreme Court clerks are wracking their brains to come up with an intellectual respectable argument for avoiding this case. They can always go down the path of saying a practice is traditional, kind of giving it lega...

[quote=""Littlejohn""]. October 19, 2013 - Conference by Joseph Atwill in London Excuse me.. someone know the results of the Atwill's Conference in London? .[/quote] It was a non-event. He didn't have any new evidence, just the same pattern of similarities between the gospels and...

Someone agrees with me. Prediction I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that the Supreme Court will decide Town of Greece v. Galloway by declaring that the plaintiffs lacked the standing to challenge the Greece town council’s opening prayers. The Rochester suburb will thus be free to c...

The Supremes have a dilemma. There is no honest way to justify including a prayer in a governmental function if you believe in church state separation, and they all know it. But there are two problems: 1. They have the precedent of Marsh v. Chambers, which says that a sufficiently vague prayer to an...

Price's review of Atwill

Tom Verenna: No, Joe Atwill, Rome did not invent Jesus

Don't waste your time. Atwill is not a mythicist. He has a bizarre and improbable conspiracy theory.