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Bill Cosby Brings Humor to the Bible

December 29th, 2011

Bill Cosby brings levity to the Bible in his comedy routine. Is this inappropriate, or an innocent take on familiar material and what does it say about his beliefs? Continue Reading »

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Rick Perry’s Weak “Strong” Ad

December 19th, 2011

Rick Perry's "Strong" ad relies on terribly weak rationale to make an untruthful, hateful appeal to voters. Continue Reading »

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What’s the Best Answer to Evangelical Extremism?

December 5th, 2011

How should Americans respond to evangelical extremism in the United States? Some liberal commentators have suggested that evangelicals need to start showing as much commitment to their nation's interests as they show to their religious faith. But is it really Continue Reading »

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Why Should Church and State Be Kept Separate?

November 16th, 2011

By now many of us are familiar with the right-wing argument that religion and government are inextricably intertwined, that the two have always mixed and can never be completely separated, and that the Constitution does not bar religious influence in governanc Continue Reading »

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Protecting Bullies in the Name of Religion

November 16th, 2011

It's almost impossible to believe that a lawmaker would try to insert a religious exemption into a proposed anti-bullying law, but that's exactly what one Michigan senator tried to do. Now, however, it looks as though that exemption will be removed from the bi Continue Reading »

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Does Reading the Bible Make People More Liberal?

October 27th, 2011

Frequent Bible-reading can make people more liberal, posits a Baylor University doctoral candidate in his master's thesis, contradicting commonly-held stereotypes about liberals and conservatives. (That is something for ULC wedding officiants to ponder, given Continue Reading »

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Sex, Race, and the Biology Excuse

October 20th, 2011

Digging Up Dinosaurs Have you ever heard anyone exclaim, "It's biology!" when confronted with the problem of male promiscuity, or the disproportionately high number of black people in American prisons? Perhaps their wording was "It's genetic!" Either way, it s Continue Reading »

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"Occupy Wall Street" Draws Religious Progressives

October 12th, 2011

Religion and liberal progressivism have become increasingly polarized in the United States, but new grassroots forces are rising to reunite the two. Typically religion has been absent from left-wing protest movements, but the Occupy Wall Street movement which Continue Reading »

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Troy Davis and the Morality of Capital Punishment

September 23rd, 2011

This week saw the execution of Troy Davis, a long-time death row inmate from Georgia. In 1991 he was convicted in the murder of off-duty police officer Mark McPhail. This was the fourth scheduled execution for Davis, and the state temporarily delayed it whi Continue Reading »

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Bible Shows Human Errors, Scholars Say

August 22nd, 2011

Contrary to the claims of evangelical Christians and many Orthodox Jews, the Bible does not appear to be the unalterable, inerrant word of God. Hebrew scholars been undertaking a project to publish an authoritative critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Continue Reading »

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