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Happy 2011 religionistas! With 2010 still fresh in our memories, it’s time for writers and bloggers to whip out their favorite perennial posts: the year-end list. I never cared for writing year-end lists myself. Luckily, everyone else put one together so I don’t have to.
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President Barack Obama’s nomination of Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health is good news for scientists, for people of faith, and for all Americans. Dr. Collins, a preeminent geneticist and devout Christian, is highly qualified for the job because of his skills and his values. In the 1990s he led the Human [...]
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For over two decades, the Muslim Public Affairs Council has been a leading national voice on behalf of the Muslim American community. MPAC works with policy leaders, law enforcement agencies, the entertainment industry, and others to shape policies and public opinion concerning Muslim Americans. MPAC also works within Muslim American communities to develop strong leadership [...]
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The founding fathers’ purposes were clear. They had no intention to found the country according to Christian doctrines.
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The religious conservative criticize same-sex marriage, saying it violates the biblical definition of marriage. They are wrong, and here’s why.
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“In my dungeon even the pope himself would confess, that he is a witch!”
-A German inquisitor during the time of the witch trials
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A German faith-based group is in an uproar over a children’s book that promotes atheism. But is the book really dangerous?
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Imagine if Barack Obama took a copy of the Bible and cut out his favorite passages with scissors, glued them onto paper and said, “there, that’s a better version.”
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Marriage obviously isn’t such a sacred thing if murderers are allowed to do it. But wait, this is homosexuality we’re talking about: a sin on a whole other level, apparently.
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–There was some speculation a few weeks back about whether Rick Warren would invoke Jesus’ name in the invocation. If he left Jesus’ name out of the prayer, evangelicals would be offended. If he mentions Jesus–Muslims, Jews, and Americans of other faiths would be offended. Well, he mentioned Jesus. Not only mentioning him, but pronouncing [...]
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So, Warren is giving the opening prayer; very controversial, blah blah blah. Enough already. But what about the pastor giving the benediction, the closing prayer? He is Joseph Lowery, of course. Warren may grab all the headlines and have a mega-selling book, but it’s Lowery who has the resume.
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