It was Obama who said that small-town Americans, embittered by a lack of jobs and government accountability, "cling to guns or religion … She knows that her neighbors don't cling to guns or religion because there's nothing left on which to hang their hopes. … They cling to guns to hunt and to protect their families; and they cling to religion because they believe in a power higher than themselves…
They will say it’s her politics, her religion, or possibly the whiff of scandal some have managed to ladle upon her. … His critique of religion so perfectly fits probamaism that one is forced to conclude the latter is but a new flavor of the former.…
power to destroy, and churches have always been exempt from taxation under the principle that there is no surer way to destroy religion … This tax rule is a surefire way to destroy the free exercise of religion.…
What Newberg reveals through what is called single photon emission computed tomography is not religion, but the physical basis for … For societies, this biological basis for spirituality provides an explanation for the universality and persistence of religion.…
elite) stereotypes others – consciously or unconsciously, favorably or unfavorably – on the basis of age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion … Indeed, Barack Obama himself has done it, with his comments about the “bitter” people “clinging” to guns and religion; similarly, most…
The root causes are moral and ethical in nature.For decades, secularists in America scoffed at religion and her offspring, morality … They removed religion from the realm of "truth" and reduced it to mere "opinion." … Since that could not be accomplished with religion (at least on this side of eternity), "religious truth" was deemed an oxymoron. …
Hoberman decries the movie in the headline as an "adolescent case against religion." … Maher announced, "I don't like the word atheist because to me it mirrors the certainty of religion. … It is amazing that Maher thinks it's religion that's the "supreme hustle," and not his lying movie.…
The First Amendment of the Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting … "They use that to keep religion out of morals," says another pastor, Rev. … "There is a cultural elitism in America that would like to keep religion privately comforting but publicly irrelevant!…