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Religion Dispatches
But he won’t leave Fox entirely.
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Religion Dispatches
The conservative group behind the Texas “Traditional Values Centers.”
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Religion Dispatches
In a video released on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin insists that violent rhetoric plays no role in influencing actions while claiming that those condemning the use of angry rhetoric and images are themselves manufacturing a “blood libel” that may well “incite…violence.” So which is it?
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Religion Dispatches
Rejecting forty-three years of legal precedent the court voted 5-4 to devote public money to religious institutions. Justice Kennedy wins the 2011 Tortured Judicial Casuistry Award for his remarks.
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Religion Dispatches
Scientists like roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil advocate uploading our minds into robots or virtual reality so that we can live forever. They believe that our minds can be replicated outside of our brains if we simply copy the pattern of neuro-chemical activity taking place in our bodies. That pattern, rather than the brains in which the pattern takes shape, “is” the personality. If it can be transferred to a digital medium, it can be made immortal. Surpassingly intelligent robots—our Mind Children, according to Moravec—will populate the universe, converting physical reality into a cosmic interweb of thinking machines.
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Political Research Associates
Steven K. Green is the Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He is the author of The Bible, the School…
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Religion Dispatches
Is Rand Paul a fringe candidate or a rising star in the Republican Party?
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Religion Dispatches
The Mormon church and social media.
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Religion Dispatches
Something is clearly up (or down) with religious affiliation, but reading that data calls for the art for interpretation, not mathematical modeling. That’s what makes this story far more interesting—and far less funny.
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Religion Dispatches
Televangelist supports possible war criminal to keep “ring of shari’ah” at bay.
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