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...Ghost Town), who'd rather have a hug than a slap in the face. Mark, getting in deeper before he has to make a public declaration of his sins, may deserve both, but ultimately he could be the hero of a Frank Capra fable, if Capra had been an atheist. The Invention of Lying is likely to leave people, believers or not, with a smile. You're pretty cute, Ricky, they'll say. And so is your movie...
...telecast, Libi predicted China's fall, likening it to the similarly atheist and communist USSR. Some of the impoverished former Soviet states that border China's Xinjiang region - where the majority of Uighurs live - are a potential powder keg for insurgency. Suspected Uighur terrorists operating along China's borderlands allegedly have ties to Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Central Asia, who, according to observers, are consolidating in remote parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan after setbacks in Pakistan reportedly saw many foreign jihadis return to their homelands...
...down at a non-profit or graduate program and play it cool for a while. And that’s just fine. Constant disappointment, however, is always the greatest test of faith. Another few years of this, and even the most ardent believer may find himself a hard-bitten atheist...
Chicago wasn't the first target of the Indiana atheists. Earlier this year, the five or so members of the Secular Alliance of Indiana University, in Bloomington, closely followed the well-publicized atheist efforts in Britain (which, thanks to the fervor of the British press, received global coverage). "Why don't we try something like that?" one student asked at a meeting. They bounced around ideas and came up with a campaign to raise money to place ads on buses in the handful of Indiana cities with populations over 50,000. But that was turned down by the public transportation...
While the bus ads are confrontational just by the nature of their placement, atheist advertising is not new. In 2007, the American Humanist Association, a Washington-based group of roughly 11,000 members that questions the existence of one God, any god, the supernatural or an afterlife, bought ads in publications like the Nation and the Progressive. Then, late last year, the group splashed its first bus ads in the U.S., buying space in Washington, D.C., with the line, "Why believe in God? Just be good for goodness sakes." It caused a flurry of complaints from believers but was somewhat...