Iannaccone argues that religion is more vibrant in the U.S. because the American government has mostly left religion alone. … In Europe, governments subsidized religion or set the rules. … "Religion is a market phenomenon like other ones," Iannaccone says, "and when you make the government the arbiter, the funder, (religion…
of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual’s race, color, religion … , sex, or national origin, or to classify or refer for employment any individual on the basis of his race, color, religion, sex, or … ) to exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his race, color, religion…
The most dynamic religion in the world over the past hundred years has not been Christianity or Islam, but Leftism. … We have departments of Political Science, History, Economics, Philosophy and Religion and Psychology; and we’re about to open a department…
For a long time, the Supreme Court took the free exercise of religion to mean that believers should sometimes be excused from requirements … This fit the constitutional notion of neutrality: Just as the government shouldn't reward citizens for embracing religion, it shouldn't…
Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, one of President Obama's new best friends along with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, was extremely unhappy last week as truth-tellers worldwide observed the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide. By the time the killing concluded an estimated 1.5 million Armenians lay dead...
Founding Fathers -- George Washington, John Adams and others -- noting the inseparability of a free nation from the principles of religion … the greatest book ever written about the United States -- wrote in 1835, "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion…
exercise of religion. … Here it is generally assumed that religion is a good thing. So good that everybody ought to have one. … Why invent conflicts between religion and state in a country where anybody is free to invent his own faith?…
In an April 19 Salon.com screed headlined, “Marco Rubio’s deranged religion, Ted Cruz’s bizarre faith: Our would-be presidents are … “This is scandalous, given the electorate’s gradual, relentless ditching of religion.”
Gradual?…
silent until forced to make a statement, Chu finally admitted: 'I don't understand how it can be said that there is freedom of religion … and at the same time freedom to attack religion. … He and some other Jesuits -- including Father William Ryan, who would later teach religion at San Francisco's St.…
“How dare you impose your religion on us,” shouts the world to us incessantly. … If members of a secularist society turn to religion at all, they do so because they are looking for something other than what that … Religion that is ‘more of the same’ is not likely to be very interesting.”…