May 25, 2011 – government has no more right to interfere with prostitution or heroin than it does to limit the right of the people to “practice their religion … conservatives would nonetheless vote for him “if they understand my defense of liberty is the defense of their right to practice their religion … Paul ought to understand that the First Amendment explicitly protects “free exercise” of religion, but says nothing about a right to…

May 24, 2011 – This column first appeared at Patheos.com, a website for dialoguing about religion.…

May 24, 2011 – They seem to confirm for them not only how absurd these end-of-days predictions are, but how absurd religion is in general.…

May 24, 2011 – The ludicrously named "Arab Spring" is more like an Arab winter that will never end as long as radical Islam is the established religion…

May 23, 2011 – adhered to in Indonesia, or prevents other people from adhering to such a religion. … activities that might be considered a deviation of a recognized religion. … stipulates that all citizens may choose and practice their own religion.…

May 22, 2011 – Unfortunately many Jews in America seem quite indifferent about their own cultural and faith heritage (whether or not they take the religion … no better than Islam, Israel is no better than the Muslim nations, etc…); B) The only reason that an adherent to a particular religion…

Jun 9, 2011 – George Washington: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable … And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”…

Jun 8, 2011 – but you would never learn that from the average cynical European, who appears either indifferent to or apologetic about both his religion…

Jun 8, 2011 – "It sounds like the same old religion, the same thing we tried and failed with that led us into the recession."…

Jun 8, 2011 – Peters, she flatly declared: “In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion.” … First, there’s the obvious conclusion that when the Times “substituted for religion” in the Abramson household the newspaper didn’t … majority of her fellow citizens who, in the words of one currently prominent social critic, “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion…

Jun 7, 2011 – Specifically, our enemies are using our tolerance of religion to create an infrastructure of mosques here that incubate the Islamic…

Jun 6, 2011 – The tooth relic was brought to the island nation of Sri Lanka because the Buddha is said to have declared the Buddhist religion safe…

Jun 6, 2011 – Does the Constitution guarantee our free expression of religion in the public arena? Absolutely.…

Jun 6, 2011 – . -- Millennials and religion: They are the least religious generation in American history. … Only 13 percent of Millennials considered any type of spirituality to be important in their lives; most don't think about religion…

Jun 6, 2011 – Or at least those bitter patriots who cling to their religion and their guns, named Palin, Revere, Bachman, Cain, Romney, Paul, Pawlenty…

Jun 3, 2011 – "The law of our land has always guaranteed its people freedom of religion," said Penny Wiegert, the Rockford Diocese's director of … Denying this exemption to faith-based agencies leads one to believe that our lawmakers prefer laws that guarantee freedom from religion…

Jun 2, 2011 – "In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion,” she said. “If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth."…

Jun 2, 2011 – But he is most peeved by what he sees as the theological implications of exceptionalism, what he calls the “huge role of religion in…

Jun 2, 2011 – Islam claims to be an all-inclusive religion where economic justice is part and parcel of its tenets, even if it has to be accomplished…

Jun 2, 2011 – In Europe, by contrast, they seem to have gotten religion about how to jump start an ailing economy.…

Apr 9, 2011 – I thought Islam was a religion of peace and that opium was a sedative!…

Apr 9, 2011 – Several alternative suggestions were made, with some Representatives referring to “denominations,” “sects” and “societies” of religion … Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed … To say that it is, is a contradiction to the Christian Religion itself, for every page of it disavows a dependence on the powers of…

Apr 8, 2011 – "But this is against the constitution that allows the freedom of religion." … University professors reportedly are having difficulty recruiting students for religion classes, and attendance at weekly prayers appears…

Apr 8, 2011 – Two other key challenges would be the language problem and the traditional Buddhist religion and culture in the affected areas.…

Apr 8, 2011 – So is patriotism, mainstream religion and heterosexuality.…