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Christianists begin to make common cause with Islamists over gay rights and evolution.
Archive for the ‘Religion and Politics’ Category
November 5th, 2009
Category: Religion and Politics
Now is the time for the Jewish community to do its part in ensuring that the Fort Hood outrage does not lead to anti-Muslim or anti-Arab hysteria.
October 3rd, 2009
Category: Religion and Politics, Uncategorized
Norman Podhoretz, fiercely conservative and fiercely proud of his Judaism, wonders why his conservatism puts him in such a small minority among Jews, when it seems to him that liberalism is contrary to the tribal interest of the Jews and the class interests of the majority of Jews who are prosperous rather than poor. (Someone said [...]
August 24th, 2009
Category: Religion and Politics
[NEVER MIND! THE STORY IS FROM 1970. MY APOLOGIES.]
A judge denies to ratify an adoption – after the cnild has already been living with the adoptive couple – because they don’t believe in God. No, I’m not making this up.
August 18th, 2009
Does Mike Huckabee want to destroy Zionism, or does he want to destroy Israeli democracy? Because those are his choices.
August 15th, 2009
Category: Religion and Politics
Tobias Dantzig pointed out eghty years ago that we reckon by tens because we have ten fingers, althouigh ten is far from the optimal base for a numbering system.
July 27th, 2009
Category: Religion and Politics
Sam Harris thinks that Evangelical Christians should be excluded from some public offices. There’s a word for that.
July 21st, 2009
Evangelical Christian groups that claim to support Israel are misrepresenting themselves. They are not Zionists: they are anti-Zionists, and they should be called that.
July 13th, 2009
Sir Jonathan Sacks pens an empty Jeremiad about moral decline in Britain.
