Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
CRITIQUING RELIGION
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Religion vs State
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The Secular Coalition for America is the national lobby representing the interests of atheists, humanists, agnostics, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation, with more than 13,000 members, is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) in the United States. FFRF has been working since 1978 to promote freethought and to keep state and church separate.
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The Christian-nation myth can be debunked by a little reading of original texts.
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Every holiday season, Christian conservatives moan about a "war on Christmas." Not surprisingly, this is tied to massive fundraising campaigns.
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Both believer and nonbeliever have a vested interest in the secular nation envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
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David Barton likens himself to a biblical prophet. He wants to destroy the separation of church and state. Why is he designing school curricula?
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Jeff Sharlet's The Family will leave you stunned by the religious motivations behind seemingly every political decision in the last 70 years.
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The C Street House is run by a secretive Washington ministry known as The Family, or The Fellowship.
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Jeff Sharlet's shocking exposé, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May, 2008
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Why do the prayers of a church belong in the single most important ceremony of our state? Obama is not God's servant, he's ours.
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Obama is adding religious advisers to the executive branch and kicking off events with prayers vetted by his staff.
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The other canker at the heart of faith-based initiatives is the assumption that religiously based programs work better than secular and government efforts.
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Secularists have very quietly become one of America’s largest minorities -- how long before they use their power?
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"The bill's first test of blasphemy is that religious adherents express outrage. Instead of encouraging outrage, we should be educating people to respond in a more healthy manner when somebody expresses a belief that they find insulting,"
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It is the president's duty to refrain from displays of religious devotion.
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Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated.
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7 reasons why it is a bad idea that the military has become wrapped up in religious jingo
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Americans would rather vote for a presidential candidate who was Catholic, black, Jewish, female, Hispanic, Mormon, thrice-married, 72 years old, or homosexual than they would one who was an atheist.
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The Christian right has launched a permanent religious war to thwart, and even to roll back, advances in civil rights.
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With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers into Christian fundamentalists.
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In a democracy, there should be no fixed truth except that everyone has the right to offer a new view -- and to change his or her mind.
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Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth.
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Of course, all candidates must defacto believe in God if they want to have a chance. And there is even a site dedicated to monitoring their level of belief as they march along the campaign trail.
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Presidential candidates are professing their faith as the "Jesus Factor" continues to reverberate in politics.
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Six mega-churches face inquiries into whether "tax payers are being taken for a ride."
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Why does Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, which teaches students to be "Champions for Christ," get tax-exempt status?
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the U.S. last week against a macabre backdrop featuring reports of torture, execution and war. He chose not to notice.
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