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  1. 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…
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. 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.…
  7. 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.…
  8. 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…
  9. 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…
  10. 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…
  11. "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.…
  12. 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.…
  13. 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…
  14. 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.…
  15. 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"…
  16. 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…
  17. 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…
  18. 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.…
  19. 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,…
  20. 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…
  21. 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.)…
  22. 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…
  23. 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…
  24. 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…
  25. 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.…