Into The Night With The Raveonettes

The Danish duo is back with their EP, “Into The Night,” and my my, would Phil Spector be proud.

No Voter ID Laws In The Seven Kingdoms!

First the Dubya head on a stake, now the anti-GOP blogging. I bet the Lannisters would vote Republican.

The Truth About The Founding Fathers & Christianity

The Founding Fathers of the United States weren’t very Christian after all.

The Godlessness Of East Germany

The Article: Why Eastern Germany Is The Most Godless Place On Earth by Matthias Kamann and Gernot Facius in World Crunch.

The Text: Bad news for all those who’d hoped Christianity might make a comeback now that the Cold War-era German Democratic Republic (DDR) is becoming an ever more distant memory. Atheism, according to a new study, is very much alive and well in the eastern part of Germany.

The statistics are most striking among those under 28 years old: more than 71% of eastern Germans in this age group say they have never believed in the existence of God. That’s nearly as many as in the 38-47 group, of which 72.6% are non-believers.

What the figures mean is that in eastern Germany, very young people are on the same wavelength as people from the middle generation when it comes to belief in God. The political transformation of former East Germany, in other words, hasn’t had much of an effect on people’s ideas about religion. While there are somewhat fewer atheists among young adults aged 28 to 37, where “only” 63.6% say they’ve never been believers, those in the following generation are at least as non-religious as their parents.

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Connor Youngblood’s Wonderful ‘Warpath’

This guy’s going places, trust us. Check out Connor Youngblood’s album, The Warpath, here.