“This
trend mobilizes the language of religious persecution to shut
down political debate and critique by characterizing any position
not in alignment with this politicized version of Christianity
as an example of antireligious bigotry and persecution. Moreover,
it routinely deploys the archetypal figure of the martyr as a
source of unquestioned religious and political authority”
Read
Elizabeth A. Castelli’s Persecution complexes: identity
politics and the ‘War on Christians’
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And
you thought Jerusalem had prior claim.
Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of
Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the
true centre of the Earth.
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Family
Values:
Benedict's
liberal approach to immigration actually puts him to the left
of both potential Democratic nominees--and it points a way for
Democrats to diffuse this potentially dangerous issue
What
the pope can teach Democrats about immigration
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Wishful
Thinking?
“At the risk of seeming optimistic, I might predict that
our current romance with the irrational will subside once the
year 2000 has come and gone. But that might be wishful thinking”
Read
Sage Stossel’s 1999 interview with Wendy Kaminer
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Humanists
and Spinozists should care about tigers, too.
Caroline
Alexander was chair of Classics at the illustrious Chancellor
College, Kamuzu Banda's salute to Athena under the equator, an
expert on the Bounty mutiny, an antagonist of shoddy thinking:
Her
essay
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