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Religion and book burning

September 2, 2010
By tomsander
Religion and book burning

Flickr photo of book burning by Jamelah

Richard Hays reports on a small church in Gainesville, FL which plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, in “vengeful commemoration of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington nine years ago” .  Hays notes the irony, given that he wrote his column while ...
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Moral views fed by disgust?

August 27, 2010
By tomsander
Moral views fed by disgust?

Flickr photo by A Single Atom

Drake Bennett has an interesting piece in the Boston Sunday Globe entitled “Ewwwwwwwww!: The surprising moral force of disgust.”  Bennett cites various psychologists...
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Anne Rice hardly posterchild for American non-religious

August 23, 2010
By tomsander
Anne Rice hardly posterchild for American non-religious

Writer Anne Rice evokes Mark Twain’s quip about smoking: “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it...
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Chelsea Clinton’s Intermarriage

August 19, 2010
By tomsander
Chelsea Clinton’s Intermarriage

Chelsea Clinton, a Methodist, wed Marc Mezvinsky, a Jew, on July 31, 2010 in Rhinebeck, NY.

BeliefNet’s Windows & Doors asks: “Will it last?” and cites “statistics” that show that...
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President Obama catches flak for approving of Muslims praying near Ground Zero

August 16, 2010
By tomsander
President Obama catches flak for approving of Muslims praying near Ground Zero

Young Muslim Girls - Flickr photo by Ron Aldaman

On Friday, President Obama unleashed an unintentional firestorm. At a Ramadan Dinner (a practice started by President George W. Bush...
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Church-shopping and polarization

May 27, 2010
By tomsander
Church-shopping and polarization

Flickr photo by Storm Crypt

David Campbell, Professor at Notre Dame, and co-author of American Grace: How Religion Is Reshaping Our Civic and Political Lives, is...
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