Search

This week in religion.

Forget the war on drugs. As Jimmy Carter recently argued in the New York Times, it is time to call off this wasted effort.

What we learn from the story of an undocumented immigrant.

Yes, they do recruit.

NOM’s Thomas Peters boasted this AM about the coalition that had defeated marriage equality in New York. Whoops.

From handing Paul Ryan a marked-up Bible, to a “must-see” video challenging conservative embrace of both Ayn Rand and Jesus, efforts to turn the Republican Party’s ostentatious religious posture against it miss the point.

What Obama’s religion problem has to do with LGBT rights and taxpayer-funded employment discrimination.

The atheist and the interfaith movements actually share a common point of origin: they both started, in part, as a reaction to religious extremism. Much like the atheist movement, the interfaith movement seeks to build inter-group understanding, encourage critical thinking, and end religiously-based sociological and political exclusivism. The fundamental misunderstanding that many atheists have is that they imagine the interfaith movement as disinterested in combating religious totalitarianism and solely existing to maintain religious privilege—as an excuse to show that religion, in its many diverse forms, has a monopoly on morality—but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

If Bishop Andudu of Kadugli, Sudan had not been in Denver in June, he might be in a mass grave right now. In an interview with RD the bishop calls for international intervention to prevent the government’s “final solution” while emphasizing that this is not a war between Muslims and Christians.

Questions raised about Cuccinelli’s understanding of the Constitution.