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• The Case for Writing More Accurately About Religion in America
  3 May 2007
  A recent “Holy Crap” installment of Mike’s Blog Round-Up links the Time magazine cover story, “The Case for Teaching The Bible,” by their senior religion writer, David van Biema. (The cover, as you can see above, says “Why We Should Teach the Bible  (...)
• USA: Religion Without Truth
  3 May 2007
  In 1992, at a conference of Republican governors, Kirk Fordice of Mississippi referred to America as a “Christian nation.” One of his colleagues rose to say that what Governor Fordice no doubt meant is that America is a Judeo-Christian nation. If  (...)
• Chocolate Christ exhibition cancelled
  3 May 2007
  The overwhelming force of the religious right was demonstrated yesterday when an exhibition by an international artist to be held in mid-town Manhattan was cancelled after a campaign was launched against it on the ground that it was  (...)
• The Rise of Christian Fascism and Its Threat to American Democracy
  2 May 2007
  We must attend to growing social and economic inequities in order to stop the most dangerous mass movement in American history — or face a future of fascism under the guise of Christian values.
  Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at  (...)
• Lying Religiously: The Hindu Students Council and the politics of deception
  2 May 2007
  Contents:
  * PROLOGUE
  CHAPTER 1: THE PUBLIC FAÇADE OF THE HINDU STUDENTS COUNCIL o 1.1 “LIBERAL” HINDUISM? o 1.2 SOME REASONABLE CONCLUSIONS
  * CHAPTER 2: THE HIDDEN BODY o 2.1 OF WELL-DEFINED LINEAGE  (...)
• We say no to a medieval Kurdistan
  2 May 2007
  Around seven months ago, a draft constitution for the Kurdistan region was made available for discussion, suggestions and amendments. Article seven of this proposed constitution states: This constitution stresses the identification of the  (...)
• Algérie. Femmes et sociétés arabes : Tarboucha, pour succéder à Ubu
  2 May 2007
  Oui, Monsieur le Président, nos femmes se font agresser dans la rue sans susciter la moindre réaction de défense. C‚est aujourd‚hui le sort peu enviable de toutes les personnes du sexe faible et du sexe fort affaibli par l‚âge. La violence physique  (...)
• Québec : Petits arrangements avec les dieux
  2 mai 2007
  Montréal envoyée spéciale
  Après neuf mois de combat, Renée Lavaillante a eu gain de cause. Les fenêtres de la salle de gymnastique où cette artiste vient se détendre trois fois par semaine seront prochainement remplacées pour laisser de nouveau entrer  (...)
• Letter from Washington: Evangelical feared, but multifaceted
  17 April 2007
  WASHINGTON: The evangelical Christian movement conjures up a very negative picture to many Europeans and to more than a few Americans. A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll last year found that more than one-fifth of Americans would not vote for an  (...)
• Entre Dieu et le dollar
  15 avril 2007
  Une puissante vague religieuse submerge le Moyen-Orient et emporte tout à la fois musulmans, juifs et chrétiens : beaucoup font la confusion entre Dieu, nationalisme extrémiste et justice. Il n’est pas d’autre région dans le monde où règne une telle  (...)

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