Since — if you believe the pundits — “moral values” (ha!) factored so heavily in the current election, I’m going to be doing several articles on religion. No doubt, I’ll lose many of my readers, too, because I’m told that you are strictly forbidden to say “the Emperor has no clothes” in American society these […]

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I have sometimes been accused of attacking Christians and Christianity. Frankly, while I understand why some people mistakenly believe that is (one of) my (many) motivation(s), they are wrong. While I do not feel a need or a desire to be a Christian, the true Christian tradition is an honorable one. It actually bothers me […]

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You might say I’m on a religious roll today. Oh, the irony: Me, a Holy Roller.

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Today, Americans are busily engaged in a kind of a religious war — although we don’t think of it that way — in Iraq. The war against terrorism — from the perspective of Muslims, anyway — is certainly a religious war. Americans failure to understand this is partly to blame for the ease with which […]

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You may have heard the news today that the Southern Baptists have pulled out of the World Alliance. We think we know why… Unspun™ — Changing the World…One Alliance at a Time.

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Since the Case of the Pledge of Allegiance brought by Michael Newdow is such a lightning rod for Christians and since that case was recently argued before the Supreme Court, I decided to read the Oral Arguments. After all, I’m (literally — Hi, Nick!) surrounded by Christians. And it strikes me as interesting that what’s […]

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The Bush Administration seems to have a very odd view of G-d, or at least of the meaning of words that refer to G-d.

Frankly, one wonders whether they were trying to perpetrate a fraud on the Supreme Court.

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As Bob Marcotte said when he sent this (article by Anna Quindlen — click the link below for more) to me, “This says it all. It should be required reading for anyone in America.”

As Quindlen notes, the old War between the Conservatives and Liberals, or (as some fashion it) between the Republicans and Democrats, is being spun into the War Between the Religious and the Irreligious (a.k.a., “heathen”)…

…and, of course, once you click the link immediately below, I’ll be doing my best to make sure things are Unspun.

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Here’s something about G-d that I think both Jews and Christians — and possibly those of other faiths — can agree about. Whenever a human being performs an act of integrity, honesty, kindness, compassion, or self-sacrifice, he is revealing godliness in the world. “Kiddush Hashem” literally means “sanctifying the Divine Name.” … Conversely, whenever a […]

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I confess to being more than a little baffled about the passion over Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion. I suppose I shouldn’t be. After all, there’s nothing really logical about organized religions anyway. And so you don’t think of me as (too) unfair and biased, that goes for my own choice of religion, as well. […]

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