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God Hates Figs

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton

Can a sense of irony be essential to a sense of religion?   Kent Hayden, a newly graduated and entirely non-accidental theologist, argues exactly that today over at the Huffington Post (full article here). Taking off from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s October 30 Rally to Restore Sanity — which seems to have made a lot [...]

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Delicious Ignorance

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton

Okay, so it’s hard not to crow in ironic delight about this one:  turns out atheists and agnostics score higher than religious Americans on a test of religious knowledge.  Howzat for un-believable! A new survey released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that one of the most deeply religious countries in [...]

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That Old-Time Atheist Religion

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton

I think of them as H2D2 — not the name of a techno-punk band, but the two H’s and two D’s of the ‘new atheism’ quadrumvirate (that’s a triumvirate plus one, or at least it is now) consisting of Hitchens and Harris, Dawkins and Dennett.  One of my first posts here on The AT was [...]

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Wagering on Peace

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton

Is it rational to believe that peace is possible in the Middle East?  Sometimes it seems not.   A good friend in New York, a long-time Middle East peace activist, confided that the Israeli use of deadly force against the Gaza-bound flotilla had brought her close to despair.   Yet historian Tony Judt in an op-ed today [...]

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Too Many Jews?

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton

If the headline read “Pat Buchanan:  Not Enough Muslims on the Supreme Court,” that’d be something.   Instead, what we get is the utterly predictable:  “Pat Buchanan:  Too Many Jews on the Supreme Court.” Surprise surprise, Pat’s been Jew-counting.  Those damn Jews are taking over our most sacred institutions.  When all else fails — and the [...]

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Is Christopher Hitchens Running for Pope?

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton

“New atheists” Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins are having a ball with the pedophile priest scandal — it seems to prove everything they’ve ever said about the evils of religion. It’s disturbing enough that anyone at all is having a ball with this ghastly issue, though maybe that’s inevitable when the Hitchens-Dawkins style of atheism [...]

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