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 | The National Day of Prayer Decision: A Victory to Savor“He described himself in the media as ‘a man of the Lord.’ He acted persecuted. He attacked us, and I wanted to sue him very badly.”
Published in the November / December 2010 Humanist
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Confessions of a Prayer-Struck AtheistIs it ever intellectually honest for an atheist to pray? Indeed, can an atheist claim, without manifest absurdity, to have a relationship with God? Midway through my Iraq deployment as an Army journalist, these abstract questions seemed not only real
Published in the September / October 2009 Humanist
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Invocation Irritation: What’s to Be Done about Government Prayer?The town council of Newton, New Jersey, recently agreed to end a sixty-year tradition of opening its meetings with the Lord’s Prayer after a resident pointed out the obvious violation of church-state separation. When I read about incidents like this, |
Can Meditation Be Bad for You?Back in 1979, when I was living in Pune, India, as a starry-eyed devotee of the infamous guru Bhagwan Rajneesh, something happened that has disturbed me to this day. A man who had just come down from Kathmandu after completing |
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