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Religion Dispatches
The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?
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Religion Dispatches
The world of Sarah Palin can be divided neatly into good and bad. The latter category includes Hollywood, John Kerry, Michael Moore, “left-wing professors and journalists,” Nancy Pelosi, the Ninth Circuit Court, liberals, MSNBC, the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Times, Barack Obama, health care, and “all the lawyers and academics and schooled-up ‘experts’ in D.C.”
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Latest poll reveals that while biblical literalism remains substantial it is on the wane.
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A tax-cut filibuster of Biblical proportions
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Civility, in contrast to empty rhetoric, is cultivated in pursuit of a moral end.
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United. Church. Of. Christ. (Okay, that’s four. Sue me.)
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To the moderate political classes calling for more compromise…
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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I Disagree With You but I’m Pretty Sure You’re Not Hitler
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