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Cherish your Freedoms this Christmas
https://townhall.com/columnists/kathrynlopez/2011/12/23/cherish_your_freedoms_this_christmas
– in Saudi Arabia who discusses the Bible in class or makes favorable comments about Jews -- prison terms and lashes for "mocking religion
Air Force base refuses to remove nativity scene
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/22/air_force_base_refuses_to_remove_nativity_scene
– "This conspicuous display of ritual objects is a clear endorsement of religion in violation of the Establishment clause of the First…
UPDATE: Iranian pastor told to recant or die
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/22/update_iranian_pastor_told_to_recant_or_die
– Authorities arrested Nadarkhani in his home city of Rasht in Oct. 2009 on charges that he questioned obligatory religion classes in…
KIEV & BEYOND: Church planting spreads
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/21/kiev__beyond_church_planting_spreads
– architecture and highly developed transportation systems; traditional Slavic mindsets and modern Western European culture; and Orthodox religion
Pew: Christianity has become global faith in past century
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/21/pew_christianity_has_become_global_faith_in_past_century
– Christianity has grown into a global faith in the last century, moving from a predominantly European, North and South American religion … That 100-year view is one of the major findings of a new report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which compares the worldwide … Christianity, Pew says, remains the world's largest religion "by far" and has seen the number of adherents nearly quadruple in the…
Manure Makers, Yes; Catholics, No
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2011/12/21/creators_oped
– Republican-controlled House of Representatives led by Speaker John Boehner -- the right of Catholics to freely exercise their religion … Constitution, which guarantees the "free exercise" of religion.…
Tebowing vs. Showboating
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenconnor/2011/12/21/tebowing_vs_showboating
– Tebow's unabashed faith in Christ of course gives his critics a license to criticize him and mock his religion. … Muslims take their religion very seriously, and they don't take slights lightly. Just ask Theodore Van Gogh or Salman Rushdie.…
FIRST-PERSON: A quarterback, an R&B singer & a society's response
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/20/firstperson_a_quarterback_an_rb_singer__a_societys_response
– That difference is the scrimmage line of our cultural struggle between people of faith and those who abhor any hint of religion in…
Obama and Holder Should Put the Race Card back in the Deck
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/12/20/creators_oped
– race-oriented mindset in his book, in his church association and in his projecting statement that small-town people "cling to guns or religion
Feds' War on Religion (Part 1 of 2)
https://townhall.com/columnists/chucknorris/2011/12/20/feds_war_on_religion_part_1_of_2
– understand the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, which says they "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion … back the clock in America to our founding principles, values and liberties, and those include the intricate and pivotal role that religion
"Second Period of Islamic Power"
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/12/20/creators_oped
– Worldwide, the Muslim population has surpassed Catholicism as the world's largest religion, with 48 members of the U.N.…
Obama Didn't Get the 'Truce' Memo
https://townhall.com/columnists/janetmlarue/2011/12/20/obama_didnt_get_the_truce_memo
– candidates have mostly heeded Daniels’ naive advice instead of going on offense against Obama on social issues, including freedom of religion … Rick Perry (R) rightly calls it Obama’s “war on religion.” Consider just a couple of Obama’s IEDs. … The constitutional right to free exercise of religion for the rest of us ends where Obamacare begins.…
Why Thomas Friedman Abetted Anti-Semitism
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2011/12/20/why_thomas_friedman_abetted_antisemitism
– He wrote it because he is a leftist.Leftism poisons everything it influences -- from journalism to the arts to universities to religion
The Atheists and the Savior
https://townhall.com/columnists/billmurchison/2011/12/20/the_atheists_and_the_savior
– The title of a best-selling book he published several years ago was, "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything." … He decided there were no two ways about this religion business. The world had got it wrong. There were no gods. None. … There was, religion aside, a lot to admire about Hitch and his rude, broad-shouldered journalism.…
BP Ledger, December 19 edition
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/19/bp_ledger_december_19_edition
– was considerably widened, and the punishments sharply increased, in an Amending Law changing other laws relating to freedom of religion … Since both new laws restricting freedom of religion and belief were adopted, the Religion Law has been increasing used to close places … Under the new Religion Law anyone - whether a Kazakh or foreign citizen - regarded by officials as engaging in "spreading a faith"…
The 'New Atheism' is confronted in journal
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/19/the_new_atheism_is_confronted_in_journal
– to work its way into popular thought through Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion," Christopher Hitchens' "God is not Great: How Religion … Dawkins promotes naturalistic evolution and claims that religion is merely its byproduct, and Howell finds a weakness in this claim…
SHEA: Wrong way to address 'Islamophobia'
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/19/shea_wrong_way_to_address_islamophobia
– Notwithstanding Clinton's final speech defending freedoms of religion and speech, the gathering was folly. … Resolution 16/18 was adopted in place of one that endorsed the dangerous idea that "defamation of religion" should be punished criminally … The administration erred in viewing resolution 16/18 as a meeting of minds between the OIC and America on freedoms of religion and…
5,000 rally in support of embattled nativity display
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/19/5000_rally_in_support_of_embattled_nativity_display
– -based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), at the behest of an anonymous Henderson County resident, sent a letter to county officials … Religion is but a myth & superstition that hardens hearts & enslaves minds." … Religion is not myth. It is not a superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.…
On Vaclav Havel and Chris Hitchens
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulkengor/2011/12/19/on_vaclav_havel_and_chris_hitchens
– At the core of that evil was what Mikhail Gorbachev characterized as a “war on religion,” which, among other forms of malevolence,…
Speak Not of Evil
https://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2011/12/19/speak_not_of_evil
– the gap between our First Amendment rights, on the one hand, and the Islamists’ belief that anyexpression that “offends” their religion … ill-advised road by cosponsoring in 2009 an OIC-drafted resolution in the UN Human Rights Council that condemned “defamation of religion … religiousminorities, including Muslims, without explaining our relatively exemplary achievement of upholding individual freedoms of religion
Christopher Hitchens: Evidence of a Divine Being
https://townhall.com/columnists/frankturek/2011/12/19/christopher_hitchens_evidence_of_a_divine_being
– “Religion poisons everything” was his subtitle, which is a witty way of saying that religion is evil. … Hence, by complaining that “religion poisons everything,” Hitchens was borrowing from God in order to argue against Him. … (The truth is religion doesn’t poison everything—everything poisons religion.)…
The Economics of Life and Marriage
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2011/12/19/the_economics_of_life_and_marriage
– Henry Potykus, a Senior Fellow at FRC’s Marriage And Religion Research Institute, confirms, human capital is the key to our economic…
That Ol' Time Religion
https://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2011/12/19/that_ol_time_religion
– President Obama spoke at the annual meeting of the Union for Reform Judaism last week, and he gave the attendees that ol' time religion
When Did Atheists Become Persnickety, Litigious Anti-Christmas Whiners?
https://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2011/12/18/when_di…_atheists_become_persnickety_litigious_antichristmas_whiners
– Case in point: This past week Fox Business Channel’s Eric Bolling had Dan Barker, spokesman for the Freedom From Religion Foundation…
Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/12/18/email_hate_mail_and_comments_from_readers
– JustMCMC wrote: Ironically, there is a SUPERB South Park multi-part episode that seems to have a better grasp of the illusory false religion … That’s my biggest problem with the global warming religion. They don’t want to police their own.…
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