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From Anne Hutchinson to the HHS contraception mandate.

Religion plays a central role in making transnational lives possible, something migration scholarship has not really explored.

The bell of evil tolls for thee.

Yes, Episcopal priests have embraced other traditions. But Ross, the Church didn’t embrace those priests.

I was excited to read Religion for Atheists—really I was. Here’s a confessed atheist, pop philosopher Alain de Botton, who nonetheless actually believes that religion is worth looking at, unlike his more militant friends in the New Atheist camp. .

A familiar end-of-the-primary-road refrain.

New studies on “death reminders” suggest it’s agnostics we should really be looking at…

*headdesk* Right. Cute dog videos it is, then.

On penalties and taxes and mandates and burdens.

Billboards, rallies, biting commentary—all this is meant to deconstruct the cultural worlds framing sacred texts and ideas, and to do deep damage to the stronghold religion has on life in the United States. I’m in favor of billboards, as well as other organized efforts to advance progressive values and life-affirming ethics. Why should theists alone be allowed to present their ideas in grand ways? The anger coming from theists when confronted with the absurdity behind some of their own faith commitments shouldn’t silence non-theists, and it doesn’t require special handling by public figures.