There will be a backlash. I work in Norway and I have seen numbers rise in the religious communities over the years. Religion here is more ingrained in people than they imagine. Its just not as virulent as elsewhere. N0rway is also very conservative and very tightly controlled. Sunday shopping is still a no go. And lets not forget that the last Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bøndvik is a Lutheran minister.

I would be curious to see if this will remain in place a I suspect the Government has alternative motives for this and it is not secularism

To 78rpm

My father used to always say to people who used to say "If God had intended us to fly, he would have given us wings" He would reply with , "if he didn't want us to think.He wouldn't have given us brains"

Why isn't he addressing a proper University?

I liken it to the consumption of alcohol. The more you try to stop a person from drinking, the more likely he/she will become an alcoholic

Easter is the time of the year when I religiously renew my love of The Life Of Brian.I would love to stand outside the Vatican and sing Always look on the Bright side of Life

Its the tricksters way of saying "Just because there is an absence of evidence doesn't mean to say that there's an absence of evidence, Let me distract you with a guided question which will detour you away from this line of questioning please"

I would love to see this reasoning used in a court of law. Could you imagine the response if an accused used that as a line of defense when questioned?

They are truly upholding Christian values though.... God hates this, God hates that.... How can any Christian ever believe that they worship a God of love is beyond me...

Beautiful.......a moving an eloquent tribute.

gizmologic.

Unfortunately , the Pope thinks that he is Caesar....

Why would she need to be baptized? She was Jewish.....

Haha. Love the satire. Newsthump is spot on

So yet again the Religious see their income disappearing because people realize they don't need to live under medieval superstition, so they (religion) has to become "militant" and aggressive......

They should be publicly named and then noted whom they don't send out to. Then after a dramatic fall in profits, watch them rethink their policies

Interesting how given the amount of churches, ,mosques, chapels and prayer rooms at airports, they still claim religion needs a "seat at the public table"? How much further backwards do you think we can bend before we break?

Anybody willing to bet what are the odds of it actually being carried out?

So the religious even deny their own Armageddon?

Why aren't those who to appear there eg Oprah Winfrey boycotting as protest?

You know are famous when you are parodied by Colbert......

Jolly Old Blighty...... eh what what??

The shroud shows up not long after the Knights Templars are tortured... In the care of a Hughs de Payens no less........ It has already been carbon dated to around this time......

It is likely that the Catholic Church would have used crucifixion as a means of torture.......

Whilst it might not be a fake in terms of the injuries it displays it is by no means the actual burial cloth of a a 1st century eccentric Jewish Rabbi.....

I think it is cloth used after a templar knight was tortured... And the knight was not actually dead, The lactic acids streaming from the stressed body would have been instrumental in leaving the marks......

Everything Hitch said about religion applies to this irrelevant idiot.....

Thank you sir. Once more, thank you.....

But of course they will accuse the rest of us "not being able to understand Islam"

One can only wonder at the technology they get to see everyday.....

In Dog we trust....

Watching O 'Reilly's brain farts along with Chopra's poor excuses for intelligence makes me think of Brando's famous line. "I coulda been some body" I coulda had class"

Fox news: Fair and Balanced

So after all the failed exorcisms, prayers,and witch doctory they finally have to admit that science is the only thing that works.....

Even with illness taking over him he still dignifies himself further by acts like this.. Oh this world is going to be a much poorer, bleaker,desolate and less interesting when Hitch leaves us.....

I am in disbelief that we are going lose him.....This precious voice of reason...