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Even secular students, he argued, need to be religion-literate in what he calls the “post-secular” world. Steinfels does not think that everyone needs to be religious, but he believes that everyone should at least be religion-literate. He thinks the University...
Tags: Peter Steinfels, Hal Weidner, Fordham University, Middletown, Secular Student Alliance, Religion, Secularism, Secularity, Religion Belief, Education
(This following article was written many years ago and has received many favorable comments over the years. As a dark-skinned, curly-haired child who was often called by the “N” word when I lived in Indiana, and as a guy who has...
Tags: negro, negroes, black, Martin Luther King Junior, religion, african-american, afro-american
It's possible to keep the good parts of religion -- like the music, rituals and pageantry -- and get rid of the sex-hating dogma, the belief in god and other troublesome aspects. Share and save this post: AlterNet Social Networks:
Tags: San Francisco, films, Religion, Christina of Sweden, Apocalyptic fiction, Dogma, Red Bank New Jersey, Religion Belief, Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet
In his entertaining lecture to Theos, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says atheists are too selfish to have enough babies to ensure the survival of western European liberal culture, and therefore that culture is doomed, like that of Ancient Greece, to die.
Tags: Jonathan Sacks, European, Council for Ex-Muslims, United Kingdom, London, God Is Not Great, Secularism, Atheism, Criticism of religion, Religion, Religion Belief
J. Grant Swank, Jr.So try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a federal civilian court.Why?Read: “Some strange ideological impulse—rather than common sense and respect for the rule of law—is driving the Obama administration to give special treatment...
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Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show she talked about Psalms 109:8. Psalms 109:8 has become somewhat of a slogan. Some on the religious right have started a “Pray For Obama” campaign. At first when I heard of it...
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Here's a thought Humanists should be welcome on Thought for the Day – if they would only admit their own fundamental irrationality When, nearly five years ago, thousands of Christians got excited about the BBC 's broadcast of Jerry Springer – The Opera,...
Tags: religious views, United Kingdom, London, Secularism, Social theories, World view, Religion, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, Humanism, Freethought, Epistemology, Religion Belief
The holidays are always rough. It was right before Halloween when I lost my three kids two years ago. I don't blame God. I know there was a reason, even if I go to my grave not knowing why. I suppose it makes me appreciate the little things I do have,...
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By ROBERT WELLER I spent several days debating with myself about what to do with the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorists. Let’s start here. One thing I did absorb from covering Columbine, genocide in Africa, and other atrocities,...
Tags: circus, arena, terror, bloodthirsty, stoning, religion, crucifixion
There were no “startling new secrets” in the SyFy show about 2012 that was hosted by Lester Holt. Neither has the History Channel show, “The Nostradamus Effect” shed any new light on the prophecies regarding...
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