We can change our foreign policy, we can feed the people who live in these desperately impoverished places, we can give more or less aid to Israel—but none of that is relevant to this particular jihad, or holy war. Those responsible for this wave of terrorist activity are fighting modernity. And there is no more important element of modernity than the secular state.
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Category Archives: Religious Liberty
The Political Usefulness of Religion
In the (turbulent) wake of the Ninth Circuit Pledge of Allegiance ruling, all I could think of was the study conducted several years ago by the Constitution Center, which concluded that Americans revered the Constitution, but had no idea what it meant.
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Levelling the Playing Field
In legal circles these days, there is much talk about tensions between the Establishment and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment.
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Connections
Religious matters are increasingly in the news. There are the controversies over abuse in the Catholic Church, eruptions of European anti-Semitism in the wake of Arab-Israeli violence, and solemn arguments about the nature of Islam in the wake of 9-11, among others. By and large, the American media has treated such events as interruptions of, or departures from, an otherwise secular understanding of the world.
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Georgia on my Mind
The United Methodist Children’s Home is located in Decatur, Georgia. It receives 40% of its funding from the State of Georgia. The Home will not hire non-Christians or gays, and sends gay youth in its care to dangerous "intervention" programs designed to "change" their sexual orientation.
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