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Little Green Footballs A Pakistani Shiite Muslim girl stands before a banner at anti-Israeli rally in Karachi Pakistan on Wednesday May 16 2007. Jihad Watch Last night in the Republican candidates debate Tom Tancredo said quotMy dear friend Ron here I dearly love and really respect but Ill tell you I just have to disagree with you Ron about the issue of whether Israel Down the avenue An interesting piece in the latest issue of The New Yorker on religion and GOD. quotGreat portents and disasters turn some minds to God and others away from him.quot Post 911 out came quotThe End of Faithquot and Breaking the The Independent Mitt Romney the Mormon running for US President has condemned his religions former practice of polygamy but acknowledges it could harm his chances of winning the Republican nomination next year. Yahoo News AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he also is troubled by the Mormon church039s past practice of polygamy but that he can overcome voter concern about his religion.
New book provides unprecedented look at role of religion over a lifetime
TruthBook Religious News Blog Newswise A new book by University of New Hampshire Professor Michele Dillon provides an unprecedented portrait of the dynamic role religion plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lifetime. In the Course of a Lifetime relies on a unique 60-year study of close to Hitchens aims venomous darts at god, religion (rocky mountain news)
God Is Not Great How Religion Poisons Everything The sharpton/hitchens smackdown.
Slate You know youre in for a raucous dialogue when the guy who wrote a book called God Is Not Great is the less controversial of the two speakers. A week ago Slate contributor and God Is Not Great author Christopher Hitchens and the Rev. Al Sharpton faced off in a debate about religion at the New York Chastity ring centre of new school religion row (guardian unlimited)
A Christian teenager will go to the high court this summer to challenge the decision of her school to ban her from wearing a celibacy ring on the grounds that it is her basic human right to express her religious beliefs. Like or loathe him, falwell was amazing
Detroit Free Press - That may be because he treated me fairly in my religion reporting days when I covered him and his nascent Moral Majority for the Free Press. In all those years he called members of the national religion press by their first names. He always had Peggy levitt: religion isn't one-size-fits-all (huffingtonpost)
When the newspapers reported last week that six Muslim men were arrested for plotting to kill soldiers at Fort Dix I told you sos rang out all over the country. They came from people who were convinced by September 11th that all Muslims are extremists who cannot be trusted. They came from secularists and liberals who firmly believe that any kind of religion is up to no good. And they came Olasky, hitchens debate god (austin american-statesman)
Religion on the spot at LBJ Library. One mans poison is another mans salve. The debate between nationally known writers Christopher Hitchens a self-described anti-theist and Marvin Olasky a devout Christian did not attempt to answer all the questions that separate believers from nonbelievers. Perking
AKMAs Random Thoughts I8217m mulling over what I8217d want to say in an essay on digital technology and religion for an intro textbook on religious studies. 8220What8221 I hear you say 8220You have four other essays to finish plus book reviews before you get to the religion and technology essay8221 Oslo conference on religion, democracy and extremism
Norway Post - The Conference was convened on Tuesday by The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights OC and The Foundation for Dialogue among Civilizations FDC in collaboration with the Club de Madrid CdM and sponsored by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mama dog nurses baby tigers
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ScienceBlogs Fascinating post on Scotts shtetl-optimized on logical inference religion and the parsimony of evolutionary optimised reasoning Read the whole thing. There is always a worry that scientific rationalism is a darwinian dead-end in that it is suboptimal for reproductive fitness and Scott touches Oslo conference on religion, democracy and extremism (the norway post)
The Conference was convened on Tuesday by The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights OC and The Foundation for Dialogue among Civilizations FDC in collaboration with the Club de Madrid CdM and sponsored by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.
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