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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we…
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to…
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That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility…
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a…
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We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not…
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If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with…
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The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
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Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of…
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing…
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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well…
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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
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