Feb 6, 2009 – Many items on the list of horribles laid at the door of religion are libels or exaggerations. … But the record is clear: When religion is infected by racism, ideology or extreme nationalism, it can become a carrier of hatred instead…

Apr 20, 2009 – The French Enlightenment, with its worship of Reason is a prime example of this kind of religion. … Hence, modern dictionaries include definitions relating religion to impersonal principles rather than persons. … Meaning “religion” in only this broad, even purely metaphorical sense, the atheist may bristle at the notion that his “religion” entails…

Dec 3, 2009 – took a front page position, and Anne Graham Lotz felt burdened to convey the message that the one true God is not interested in religion … "Abraham is considered the patriarch of these religions, but he actually left religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with … "God has not invited us to a religion or a denomination or an organization.…

Jan 13, 2010 – Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. … The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence … Nonetheless, there is much at stake in getting people to subscribe to the global warming religion.…

May 12, 2010 – will come to anything but total secularism when our right to free speech seems more often to extend to those who want to bash religion … conventional wisdom that the First Amendment's establishment clause — 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion … ' — means the U.S. government must purge all religion from public life. … [This argument] is fatally flawed because America's historic…

Aug 23, 2010 – And one notable contrast between today and the sixties is our sense of religion and its relationship to the freedom we so cherish. … King’s words, we can appreciate that for him religion was the handmaiden of freedom, not its adversary. … party that he leads as “friendly” to religion.…

Oct 13, 2011 – in response to a question from a reporter at last weekend's Values Voter Summit in Washington that he believes Mormonism, the religion … If I am in need of surgery, it may be of some interest to me what religion, if any, the surgeon happens to believe in, but I am far…

Jun 24, 2008 – I just filed a story about James Dobson's radio program today in which he attacked Barack Obama's views on religion and the Constitution…

Jul 1, 2008 – try to translate some of our concerns in a universal language so that we can have an open and vigorous debate rather than have religion … In Catholicism, this is the heresy of indifferentism, which holds that one religion is just as good as another and all religions can…

Sep 14, 2008 – religion into the closet, and they cannot stand to watch a politician speaking publicly about her faith. … Those in the media who are assailing Sarah Palin's religion would do well to reflect on the words of Mr. … Their attempts to exorcise religion from the public square will inevitably cause more harm than good.…

Oct 29, 2015 – It has been said that “religion is box office poison.” … Meanwhile low budget Christian films made by a church from Georgia show over and over that religion is not box office poison.…

Oct 30, 2010 – And then there is religion. The fear of God takes on a whole new meaning this time of year. … of former Scranton altar boy Joe Biden stop pretending that the Constitution enshrines a hermetically sealed separation between religion … The upside to this all is what you saw during the (still ongoing) health-care debate: an acknowledgement that religion absolutely plays…

Sep 28, 2012 – In other words, they fight for one religion while treading on others. … lies in the First Amendment, where the Founding Fathers made clear, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…

Jan 18, 2012 – Over at RealClearReligion, Jeremy Lott analyzes the state of religion in America -- and, happily for us all, concludes that the MSM … Then, of course, there are those sad folks for whom, as they proclaim the waning influence of religion in America, the wish is father…

Feb 4, 2012 – Maryland’s proposed Civil Marriage Protection Act, which would legalize same-sex “marriage,” is not about tolerance. It’s about using the law to force people to recognize a counterfeit as the real thing. In fact, it should more accurately be called the Attack on Religious Freedom Enabling Act. That’s because...

Nov 21, 2012 – In the aftermath of the re-election of President Barack Obama, conservatives searched the heavens and the earth for answers. Some suggested that Mitt Romney lost because Republicans didn't reach out more to Latino voters; some suggested that Romney lost because his "get out the vote" system fell apart on Election...

Jul 31, 2013 – I had lunch yesterday with one of the smartest guys I know, Steve Bell. Steve is a long-time Hill budget and tax expert. I am, as you know all too well, arithmetically challenged. This was largely a one-way conversation. Steve talked and I nodded, pretending to understand what...

Mar 19, 2019 – Religion? Worship? Ho-hum. Who cares? A swarm of implications flows from such a finding. … We may all the more appreciate, taking in today's news, John Adams's assertion in 1776: "It is Religion and Morality alone which can…

Mar 21, 2021 – Many have observed that “wokeness” functions much like a religion, with its own infallible doctrine (supposedly science, but in actuality … However, there is one thing virtually every major religion offers that wokeism does not: the possibility of redemption. … The “religion” of wokeism offers no such comfort.…

Nov 18, 2014 – Just another routine day in the religion of pieces. … I mean what does it tell you when Obama himself won’t claim the religion as his own? … If Islam wishes to be a religion of peace, it can simply be one.…

Dec 9, 2015 – attack in San Bernardino, he was careful to build a wall of separation between the terrorists who had murdered 14 Americans and the religion … He argued that the court was taking a step toward empowering federal judges to rewrite the moral rules of a religion. … How can it be any clearer that the law substantially burdens the plaintiffs' free exercise of religion?…

Jan 28, 2015 – angry”, apparently taking a page from the Barack Obama 2008 campaign when then candidate Obama said that Americans “cling to their religion … Indeed we do cling to our religion which guides us and gives us strength in times of need, and faced with the Obama Administration…

Oct 30, 2019 – In 1798, Timothy Dwight, the president of Yale, warned, “Where there is no religion, there is no morality…With the loss of religion … Yet our cultural elites do so much to banish any vestiges of religion in the public square. … to this day, we are still dealing with the damage caused by these court cases which have driven expressions of Judeo-Christian religion…

Aug 23, 2022 – The great Rush Limbaugh used to say that "the modern environmentalists worship the created, not the creator." I was reminded of that after listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once President Joe Biden signed the fiscally unconscionable $750 billion tax-and-spend Inflation Reduction Act, which gives another $369 billion to the...

Mar 11, 2009 – This is something I've heard very little reported about in the mainstream media. Minnesota is becoming the first state to make new mortgages available to individuals based strictly on their faith. While there are a few private banks and lenders who offer this type of mortgage in the U.S., Minnesota’s...