When you’re rich and an atheist, most Christians will say that you’ve become an atheist because money is your God. You will be accused of forgetting Jesus because you spend more time making money than praying or going to church. People here in Manila stereotyped atheists as filthy rich, collage kids or intellectual snobs who seem to be too pompous of himself, that’s why he deny the existence of God.

But how about if you’re in a state of poverty yet you’re an atheist?

Don Stephens, Peel District School Board trustee for Mississauga's Ward 2, and candidate for the federal Conservative nomination in Mississauga South (and presumed frontrunner, as the other two candidates don't really have any name recognition) issued an attack on the public and secular education system, saying there is a "total neglect" neglect of Christianity in Peel's public schools.

Students leaving the growing number of Muslim religious schools in Kyrgyzstan complain they cannot get teaching jobs in state schools because their diplomas are not officially recognised.

The wearing of Muslim face veils and headscarves in schools and at work is a sensitive topic across Europe. Here is a summary of policy in some key countries:

The Pope told the Slovenian bishops-- who were in Rome for their ad limina visit-- that the Church must counteract the effects of secular ideology.

One of the favorite talking points of the pro-Israeli fascist neoCon Right in the US is to claim that there exists some particular connection between Islam and terrorism or violence around the world. You've heard the hatemongering, I am sure, most recently mouthed at the annual AIPAC conference by Daniel Gillerman, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations: "Most muslims aren't terrorists but most terrorists are Muslim"

Harris, a junior in nursing, is heterosexual, but says revealing to his family that he has no faith in God felt a little bit like coming out of the closet. He says there was a stigma attached to how he perceived the world, and he knew that stigma came with, people assumed, everlasting hellfire.

HAS the Religion of Perpetual Outrage cowed us to such an extent that government agencies now feel the need to take offence on behalf Muslims?

Ordered to compensate victims of pedophile priests to the tune of $660 million, the Church has opted to evict nuns of some 50 years service, selling the convents as a fundraising opportunity. The Santa Barbara bishop's residence remains safe.

A gag order has been imposed on soon-to-be-homeless nuns.

When people are willing to be gullible, opportunists will take advantage.

Last week, Dow Jones announced the launch of Dharmic stock market indices — presumably to help devout Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists invest in companies or mutual funds that keep their religious sensibilities in mind.

Ever since Islamic funds began talking about Sharia-compliant investments in India, smart operators have sensed a similar opportunity in catering to the needs of other religious communities.

The past few decades have borne out the warning made more than thirty years ago by Jacques Ellul, the French moral philosopher and sociologist, that the phenomenal development of mass media would revolutionize politics, with the flood of information and discontinuous facts overwhelming any sense of historic context. Now more than ever, with religion and politics often having become overtly intertwined, the lack of historic context is a massive problem.

And what epitaph do you engrave on an Atheist's grave marker? "Here lies the only good Atheist, which is a dead Atheist". What else is there say? Nothing at all. No last words, no last rites, no flowers, no anything.