Beyond being a traditional Mexican dish, tamales represent a cultural emblem full of history, unity and tradition.

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Diagoras was the first known atheist, whose bold critique of the gods was crucial in shaping early Greek secular thought.

A New Zealand judge has rejected leniency requests tied to an Indian-origin Uber driver's prison sentence over rape charges.

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In their absence (for now, before the Machine God is unveiled or the U.F.O.s descend), the reasonable religious conclusion has to be that skepticism no less than suffering belongs to the divine plan, ...

Even as fewer young people consider themselves religious, a small percentage of young adults are practicing their faiths with unusual avidity.

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Never talk politics or religion. They must be shaking their heads. Of all the issues of concern with the Trump administration ...

All those are good deeds, but one tale of St. Nick is a great deed that stands head and shoulders above the others; St. Nicholas, it is said, resurrected three children who had been murdered, chopped ...