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Christian Right

Religion Dispatches
In the wake of James Dobson’s attacks on Obama’s Christianity, liberal evangelical Jim Wallis comes to the candidate’s aid. Is Wallis’ subsequent plea for a new Democratic position on abortion strategically timed?
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Religion Dispatches
Note to Pat Robertson: Haiti is not a nation of Vodou practitioners. It is, and continues to be, overwhelmingly Christian.
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Religion Dispatches
The religious right’s new favorite charismatic apostle stirs fears of eugenics and launches a plan to honor King’s legacy by denying people health care.
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Religion Dispatches
Cult of personality or empire?
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Religion Dispatches
And while we’re setting the record straight, let’s remember Robertson isn’t a Baptist minister anymore. Yep, he ain’t a reverend.
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Religion Dispatches
While fundamentalists bicker, and a Turkish crank tries to disprove Darwin, a scientist meets a Buddhist who is able to integrate science and faith…
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Religion Dispatches
Nominee Erroll Southers’ discussion of domestic terrorism threat of “Christian identity” groups does not mean “Christians.”
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Religion Dispatches
Author Stephen Mansfield is getting hate mail. Why does the religious right think that this ex-pastor will roast in hell?
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Religion Dispatches
M. Night Shyamalan’s much-maligned new movie sounds much more interesting if read as an extended argument for religious faith in general and intelligent design specifically.
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Religion Dispatches
Famous for his use of TV to spread the message, Oral Roberts—friend of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion—helped to popularize the notion that the newly founded State of Israel was an indication that God still acts in history and that events prophesied in the bible were at hand.
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