Political & Religious Controversy - Page 69 of 70
December 19th, 2011
Rick Perry's "Strong" ad relies on terribly weak rationale to make an untruthful, hateful appeal to voters, a desperate stab at persuading the audience to adopt the view that Christians are being persecuted.
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December 5th, 2011
How should Americans respond to evangelical extremism in the United States? Some liberal commentators think that evangelicals need to start thinking about their nation's interests.
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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.
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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.
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October 20th, 2011
The emerging New Traditionalist movement has been pining for a return to a bygone era characterized by old-fashioned racial and sexual roles, but a new host of critics are raising their voices in dissent.
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October 12th, 2011
Typically religion has been absent from left-wing protests, but the Occupy Wall Street movement has been characterized by an unusually vociferous religious contingent.
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September 23rd, 2011
This week saw the execution of Troy Davis, a long-time death row inmate from Georgia, who's guilt many have called into question considering post-trial information that's been revealed.
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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, at least according to experts who reviewed the manuscripts.
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August 4th, 2011
A secret Jesus Loves Nukes program formerly run by the United States Air Force was just revealed, consisting of religion-based military training founded on the "Christian Just War Theory".
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