Christopher Hitchens died yesterday, December 15. Mr. Hitchens had battled cancer for quite a while. He was an atheist and a supporter of reason and humanity over dogma and superstition. He was an excellent writer and debater. His book, God is not Great, I found a...
New study reported by the New York Times finds that "women who reported attending the services of Christian, Jewish and other faiths at least once a week" were 20% "likely to die than those who did not". I assume they mean they were less likely to die during the 7 year study....
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"Thirty-two years after his death, the remains of Argentina's icon will be moved for a third time â and a posthumous paternity suit will be settled. Now, his supporters want Evita moved, too.
There was a gut-wrenching moment for Argentina's Peronists last Friday morning...
"The rural folk custom, startling to Western sensibilities, is known as minghun, or afterlife marriage. Scholars who have studied it say it is rooted in the Chinese form of ancestor worship, which holds that people continue to exist after death and that the living are...