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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was...

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So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; whil...

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As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked...

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Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adher...

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Christopher HitchensPrepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was...

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The bigger the government, the more the corruption. It's almost never mentioned, and it might be the...

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But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that on...

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Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument mach...

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If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy m...

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I decided (after listening to a "talk radio" commentator who abused, vilified, and scorned every nob...

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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for i...

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Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and wil...

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My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of ...

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The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural ...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbo...

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Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, abou...

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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul...

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I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am asto...

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