Crucifixes and creationists: you thought you knew Italy?

This page is intended to be a go-to list of all my posts on Italy which deal with religion. I try to keep it updated, and my latest posts are at the top.

• The cost of the Catholic church

• Abolish the Lateran Treaty!

• Ratzinger’s blood libel against atheists

• An unwelcome guest

• All are not equal before the law

• The Italian Parliament is not secular

• Europe: less secular than you think

• Self-portrait of a homophobic politician

• How Italy’s “8 per mille” religious tax works   

• Miracle in Petrignano

• The State Crucifix  

• It gets worse 

• Creationists say the darndest things  

• The crucifix post-Strasbourg  

• Lautsi vs. Italy: UAAR press conference 

• Judeo-Christian roots? There’s no such thing 

• Theoctopus

• Theocracy

• Hypocrisy exposed!

• Judge Luigi Tosti discharged for refusing to serve beneath the crucifix 

• The pope’s plaything 

• More Bibles, please! 

• More religion, please! 

• Nichi Vendola on being gay 

• Fini or Vendola? 

• This country is rotten and will never change, no matter what 

• The ear of the eavesdropper 

• Mere blasphemy 

• Images of holiness: Padre Pio 

• Religion in school (is not cool) 

• A Zionist plot to bring down the church

• L’Affaire Babini

• Fear and trembling

• Ecclesiastical chutzpah

• Sucking up 

• My unremarkable loss-of-faith story 

• Leaving the flock

• A special kind of sin

• An interview with Raffaele Carcano of the UAAR (Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists & Agnostics)

• Mariastella the Catholic

• Jerry Coyne writes to the CNR

• “Take Down Our Crucifix and We’ll Cut Off Your Arms”