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Ira Chernus

Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado and author of “MythicAmerica: Essays.” He blogs at MythicAmerica.us.   

 

 

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Religion Dispatches
Though Zionism sought to establish a state of normalcy, Israel has become an institutionalized mechanism for perpetuating a sense of abnormality.
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Religion Dispatches
Maybe the real “straight-talk express” should run for the nation’s highest office himself; the one test for president Wright cannot pass is the one the mainstream media insist on more than any other.
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Religion Dispatches
What should be more offensive to a political candidate, a claim that God is fully in charge of history, or a claim that the biblical text, not human thought, is the source of truth? It’s the latter that violates the spirit of the first amendment…
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