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Do certain qualities in a culture predispose it to being more religious than another? Dr. Tom Rees claims to have found evidence to show that religious societies tend to be the most unequal, and concludes that inequality leads to religion. Listen to an interview with Tom Rees on the BBC Radio 4’s “Thinking Aloud”.

Millions of Americans practice yoga and it is a multi-billion dollar business in the U.S. But can some aspects of yoga create spiritual conflict for religious believers?

I happened on this video, Garrison Keillor at the Washington National Cathedral. I’ve got mixed emotions with the way the editor mixed religion with America the Beautiful. How about you?

Playing Gods: The Board Game of Divine Domination bills itself as “the world’s first satirical board game of religious warfare.” (more…)

Religion is Ridiculous?
by David G. Myers
from Sightings (10/23/08)

Ridiculous, and worse.  So say the new atheist books:  In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens does not mince words, calling religion “violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.”  Now Bill Maher’s movie Religulous lampoons the plausibility and social effects of all religion, ominously concluding that the world will end (more...)

Whoever came up with Tarvuism knows a lot about religion (and cults…and psychology…and media, etc.) and has (thankfully) a lot of time on his/her hands because this is the funniest parody of American religulousness that I’ve ever seen.