The big “buzz” in the American religious community is the recently released report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. … The keyboards of the “experts” began to hum, churning out what all this means for the future of religion in America.…
Such movements derive from a deep human desire to find meaning in our lives—a meaning that has been traditionally found in religion … Traditionally politics has been understood to be concerned with the body, while religion concerned with the soul. … Political freedom as we know it is based upon the separation of politics and religion.…
worked as an organizer in the South Side of Chicago:
Obama, his mother a nonbeliever and his father absent, grew up without religion … to speak at a church -- might endear him to some conservatives who view the "separation of church and state" as an assault on religion … As you'll recall, Mike Huckabee was criticized for wearing his religion on his sleeve. …
If we proclaim Islam (or any other religion) as an “enemy of the state,” then we’ve clearly abandoned our cherished First Amendment … Recognizing that we simply can’t succeed in “a war against Islam” isn’t to say that the followers of Mohammed have built “a religion…
Or so the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Reports this week, having extensively surveyed "the U.S. religion landscape." … Because religion embodies Truth, or claims to do so. … For the simple reason that religion isn't consumerism. It's religion.…
Human beings seem to have a yearning for the transcendent -- hence thousands of years of religion -- but we have lately shied away … Global warming is the new religion. Vegetarianism is the new sacrament. Hooking up, the new prayer. … It's all religion by any other name.…
Keep in mind that a recent Pew Foundation survey on religion in America reported that 26 percent of Americans are evangelicals. … that President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, 67 percent knew that protections of freedom of speech and religion…
They said the statement that the United States is a nation “under God” is an establishment of religion. … How in the world the hearing, not even the saying, of the words “under God” in the Pledge to the flag establishes a religion, nobody … , or even of religion over non-religion.”…