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A Crowded But Empty TombSurely you heard the news earlier this year of the discovery (actually twenty-seven years ago) of what some claim is the tomb of Jesus and his family. According to the Discovery Channel documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which premiered [Read More...] |
 | Pastors & PoliticsSpeaking to his congregation at Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, in September, Pastor Paul Blair proclaimed himself a “God-fearing Oklahoman” and a “patriotic American.” As such, he said, “I will be casting my ballot for Representative Mary Fallin for [Read More...]
Published in the January / February 2011 Humanist
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The Religious Right and the Tea Party: Marriage of Convenience or Just a Passing Fling?I spent two weekends in September attending conferences sponsored by religious right groups in Washington, DC. They were nothing if not eye-opening.
Published in the November / December 2010 Humanist
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 | I Do BelongGrowing up with—and coming to doubt—the political religion of Mao Zedong
Published in the November / December 2010 Humanist
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Belief and a Change of FortuneIn February 2007 famed British athlete and born-again Christian Jonathan Edwards resigned from Songs of Praise, BBC television’s flagship religious program. The reason? According to the June 27 Times of London, he’d come to the conclusion “that his inner sense [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
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 | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons EverythingIts ability to withstand an assault by Christopher Hitchens is one testament to the hardiness of religious faith. (I wouldn’t want him mad at me.) A famously adept debater, armed with wit and erudition, Hitchens can be persuasive even when [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
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How to Counter Religion’s Toxic EffectsEdward O. Wilson and Daniel Dennett advocate new ways to think about religion that can have a profound impact on how we as humanists define our ideology and how we strengthen our public influence. In short, these honored humanist philosophers [Read More...] |
