Mar 24, 2008 – Appreciate one point of Obama's Philadelphia speech this week on race and religion.…

Mar 24, 2008 – This semester, I learned that one of my colleagues is teaching our Sociology of Religion course with two supplemental texts, neither … (The latter is an especially odd choice because it merely documents all the bad things members of each religion have done. … Because of my concern that Sociology of Religion could become a course in Sociology of Atheism I decided to set up a more balanced…

Mar 21, 2008 – Keller argues that the main criticisms of religion require "blind faith" of their own, and he urges people to begin by doubting their…

Mar 21, 2008 – The reason is that  sooner-or-later, someone might think your religion is "weird" and should be targeted. 2. …

Apr 9, 2008 – Now that we’ve broken barriers with history’s first viable female and African-American candidates, opponents of organized religion … of England, the President functions as head of the “Church of America” – that informal, tolerant but profoundly important civic religion…

Apr 7, 2008 – Among the rights guaranteed (not “given” as Bill Clinton believes) to you in our Constitution are: Freedom of religion Freedom…

Apr 7, 2008 – After all, if you just make the slightest effort, you can inevitably find better reasons to despise people than their race, their religion…

Apr 7, 2008 – Secular humanism became my only religion.…

Apr 6, 2008 – “Two people who are identical with respect for age, religion, politics, sex, and race.…

Apr 5, 2008 – bill of impeachment against state Judge John Coughlin on two counts of "malfeasance in office for denying the right to freedom of religion…

Apr 4, 2008 – In addition to that, DuBois posts updates on the Web site with Obama’s latest media and events related to religion.…

Apr 3, 2008 – In contrast, Republicans count on religion (not government) to help humans attain a higher level of perfection. …

Apr 3, 2008 – I'd argue he can probably get away with toning down his own religion talk more than he otherwise could have because Huckabee overdid…

Apr 2, 2008 – This can be attributed to the rather simple fact that Christianity is the world’s largest religion. … But Christianity simply cannot be characterized as the religion most hostile to free expression. … Were he to seek to keep religion “out of public policy” altogether his goals would be laughable.…

Apr 2, 2008 – false juxtaposition, but I would have a lot more respect for the folks who believe it if they aimed their brave contempt for religion…

Apr 1, 2008 – As summarized by the religion editor of the Kansas City Star (March 29, 2008): "Scholars and black clergy say Wright … simply reflects…

Apr 1, 2008 – People convert from non-faith to faith, or from one religion to another, or within faiths to different denominations all the time. … When someone converts to Islam, the religion the person left behind doesn’t issue threats or express fury.…

Mar 31, 2008 – It includes the answers we give to questions of philosophy, religion, ethics and theology.…

Apr 19, 2008 – pastor Jeremiah Wright, and what he meant when he told a San Francisco audience that small-town Americans “cling to” guns and religion…

Apr 19, 2008 – , his remarks about wearing an American flag lapel pin, his comment that "bitter" small town Pennsylvanians "cling to guns and religion…

Apr 18, 2008 – “I think she is so great that she should start her own religion -- that’s how much I love her,” the woman enthuses. … After all, Oprah has, in all the ways that matter, already founded a religion. … “Spirituality is not religion,” she asserts. But it is a guiding framework for her life.…

Apr 18, 2008 – That's why people do need religion, rules, and social pressure to be convinced to behave.…

Apr 18, 2008 – They become sputtering ranters, openly championing their sheer hatred of religion.…

Apr 17, 2008 – The Catholic Church long was suspicious of America as a freewheeling Protestant nation that rejected the state support for religion … The separation of church and state as practiced in America has given religion the space to flourish and the respect necessary for it … The Holy Father quoted the Father of Our Country for the proposition that morality and religion are the "indispensable supports" of…

Apr 17, 2008 – Barack Obama said the people in the small towns of Pennsylvania “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like … Obama offends millions of Americans by his remarks about people in small towns, guns, religion and immigrants, and then dismisses it…