haven’t been “read your rights” lately … these, prominently, include:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion … Yet a government forcing those whose religion considers it a mortal sin to provide or subsidize this non-enumerated right obnoxiously … violates the plenary Constitutional ban on the government’s “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion.…
America and the Caribbean, 24 percent in sub-Saharan Africa and 13 percent in the Asia-Pacific region, the study by the Pew Forum on Religion … Most of the world's population, 5.8 billion or 84 percent, affiliates with a particular religion, leaving 1.6 billion, or 16 percent … affiliation hold religious or spiritual beliefs, such as a belief in God or a universal spirit, while not identifying with a particular religion…
But leftism is the religion of the west, the most dynamic religion in the world for the last century. … Because until the contemporary period, religion and/or conscience development were ubiquitous.…
He defined religion as "ultimate concern," following the logic of the late philosopher Paul Tillich; culture as "religion externalized … "Whatever a man is ultimately concerned with, whatever concern is his passion, his motivation, that's his religion, regardless of whether … "The orphan care is a measure of what true religion is about -- caring for widows and orphans.…
"And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. … The administration is now arguing in federal court that the First Amendment right to "free exercise" of religion does not prevent the…
They are a religion-based solidarity group. … Islamists insist that one’s primary identity is — and must be — based on religion, not nationality, not citizenship, not race, not … More to the point, they demand that their religion be acknowledged as superior to all others.…
They include the right to “inheritance of our parents and the consolations of religion.” … Many of us will continue to seek and find consolation in religion.…
Yet religion breeding poverty and corruption is where Cuba's and Iran's failed revolutions entwine. … Khomeini's Shia Islamic revolutionaries argued that when everyone got religion right, and the supreme leader would know when that happened…
In effect the administration is asserting, apparently successfully, that it is the arbiter of what is and is not an exercise of religion … Religion became what the government decided it was. … And it has set itself up as the authority on what is to be considered the free expression of religion.…
denouncing “religious intolerance” and “condemning the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on their religion … The “War on Terror” is to be rephrased as “a global challenge, which transcends geography, culture and religion.”…
For years we've been hearing about how the peaceful religion of Islam has been hijacked by extremists. … Worse, what if the peaceful hijackers are losing their bid to take over the religion? … The religion has long since been hijacked, and it's now moving on to even bigger things.…
"This generation is not negative to Christianity or religion in general; it's just not on their radar screen," he said. … "As we began to speak with them and ask some questions about religion in general and Christianity specifically, they would come back … "People just saw religion as something that was there," he said.…
