As Steven Waldman, no conservative, writes in "Founding Faith," a book that has been praised by Left and Right, "Each felt religion … Leftism functions as a secular religion, and its adherents understand that the major obstacle to the dominance of Leftist policies … and values is traditional religion, specifically Christianity.…
Not only is this evidence of the growing animosity towards the Christian religion in certain corners of American society, it also reveals … Without the resurrection, the Christian religion would be cruelly deceitful.…
Despite his skills, it is above President Obama’s pay grade to construct some kind of civic religion that stands above traditional … The problem is that when you start to water down what people actually believe in an attempt to construct a religion of the “family … But if a president wants to water down religious beliefs in an attempt to find a synthesized religion of the ‘family of man’, you end…
The dominoes began falling with the election of a “Freedom from Religion” activist, Robert Tiernan, to the Colorado House in 2010. … The majority opinion by Justice Keith Ellison, the former congressman newly appointed by President Obama, ruled that “religion” in…
Bush occupied the Oval Office, the radical anti-theist group (read: atheists on steroids), “Freedom From Religion,” filed a lawsuit … Religion—well, let’s be fair, anything related to Christian or Jewish religion—is increasingly being relegated to stepchild status. … New Deal said that those heroes storming the beaches of Normandy that fateful day were doing so to “preserve…our religion.”…
Moreover, the founders believed religion and religious teaching to be essential to the maintenance of a free society. … Therefore, reasoned Rush, “the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. … farewell address, George Washington said, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…
Stevens argued that a state law that defined life as beginning at conception violated the First Amendment by -- yes, establishing a religion … He has long found any religious practice not crushed by the government to be an "establishment of religion."…
In case you skipped social studies this is the text:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting … We're pretty clear on the Religion clause.…
Marx’s writing was painfully ambiguous, though certain identifiable elements emerge, from his revulsion of religion to disgust of traditional … (Click here for my 2007 lecture on the communist war on religion.)…
His is an interesting thesis to ponder in light of a recent article in USA Today discussing religion and the Millennial Generation. … the individual reign, but it's worth considering Schaeffer's argument that – whether we realize it or not – our understanding of religion … If anything, we regard the move from religion to "spirituality" as one more step up the ladder of progress – a natural evolution from…
