Jewish history; God is often depicted as androgynous and no longer either demanding or judging (He just loves all the time); and religion … So religion, too, has become yet another place where boys encounter few men, and few masculine models (even in God, as noted, is no…
Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. … The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence … Nonetheless, there is much at stake in getting people to subscribe to the global warming religion.…
Every religion has its abusers. And anecdotal evidence alone cannot establish the truth or falsity of any religion. … But there comes a point when we being to see patterns and must admit that a religion simply does not “work” when it comes to providing…
The kid in the audience -- he seems a kid to me, just 20 years old -- asks me a question:
"You say gay marriage will lead to the use of the law to repress traditional faiths including Christianity. But I was raised in a Southern Baptist family. When I came...
Separation of Church and State: Our Founders thought it would be a bad idea to have a national religion. … No college professor (of religion, no less) would say “I don’t know whether there is a God and, by the way, I am blissful about my … It will be geared towards converting students to my own religion of Christianity.…
Even with its centuries-old roots throughout the region, is Christianity history in the West?
In a speech at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., the visiting archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, warned that "trends questioning the Christian foundation of Europe, and aggressively opposing it, are...
Obama seemed to be suggesting that the Bush administration had been promoting the idea that all of Islam was our enemy and the religion … Time and time again, President Bush hailed Islam as a peaceful religion and made clear that the United States was not at war with Islam … , only with the extremists who distort the religion.…
Maybe so, one Buddhist blogger replied, but Buddhism is a religion of peace without any of those nasty crusades lurking in its past … My point in all this is not to suggest that Buddhism is a religion of violence—it rarely is these days—but that it can be. … Buddhism gets a great press in the United States, but it is one more man-made religion that reflects our naturally sinful natures.…
