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Guy Rundle rerveals how much he enjoyed the Richard Dawkins-George Pell Q&A smackdown.

It seems like a bit of a mystery when you hear at an atheists’ convention what a good job Christians are doing to help defend the rights of women against fundamentalist Muslims.

While the Christians lead the way with the codex, they are catching up, a bit late, with the next piece of revolutionary technology — the digital pad.

Last week Fairfax columnist Paul Sheehan fed the idea that Islam is a monolithic entity that’s fundamentally incompatible with western values. That’s what’s wrong with the current debate about Islam, says writer and filmmaker Ruby Hamad.

Like her most famous characters, Anne Rice is not particularly fond of the cross. 12 years after she became a born again Christian the Vampire Chronicles author has renounced her faith, protesting against the church’s views on social issues such as homosexuality and birth control.

The more you read the Gospels, the less you seem to know about who Jesus really was. Adam Gopnik goes searching through the texts to find some truth.

Singing, sharing, snuggling, shame and secret erections: straight, atheist journalist Ted Cox goes undercover in the Christian “ex-gay” movement.

Religion is strictly forbidden in North Korea, but evangelical Protestants like a challenge, and aren’t letting a little dictatorship get in the way of saving the nation’s souls. Buddhists are trying too, but can’t quite match that Protestant work ethic.

Atheist and author Gina Welch spent two years deep undercover inside the world of America’s evangelical “megachurches”. The biggest revelation she uncovered? She actually enjoyed it.

A company producing weapons for the US military has been inscribing every one with coded references to Bible passages about Jesus, ABC News has uncovered. Because Jesus was all about war and killing.

A new exhibition of Nazi paraphernalia in Cologne shows how the Nazi Party tried to take Christ out of Christmas with swastika cookies and hand grenade tree decorations. Many of their “paganised” Christmas carols are still unwittingly sung today.

Our troops have a job to do. We should allow them to do it and not waste their or our own time with moronic speculations based on isolated incidents.

MP Joe Hockey gives a damning view of literal interpretations of the Bible in Christianity in last night’s speech to the Sydney Institute. We need to embrace the diversity of religions and not commit acts of war because of it, he says.

Kevin Rudd’s religious beliefs are well known, from his weekly church door-stops to his writings in The Monthly. So, how well is his Christian faith sitting with his current hard-line asylum seeker stance? asks Chris Uhlmann.

This year marks the 500th anniversary of Protestant reformer John Calvin’s birth — not history’s sexiest figure, but a more important one than you may realise.

Does Harper’s Christianity shape his idea of how recovery should proceed?

The Church of England are offering beer, bacon rolls and chocolate bars to men who attend church on Fathers’ Day.

The religious pendulum has swung away from the religious right in the US and the role of Christianity in the country may soon be no different to in Australia.

There is much to learn from religious teachings about Rudd’s politics, says Bible scholar Roland Boer.

A British church has created a “21st Century” Jesus statue, getting jiggy with some baggy jeans and sculptured facial hair. In other news: Christianity just got even less cool.