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Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nister of Finance was forced to conclude in exasperation “that it would be cheaper and more efficient to put all of Greece’s rail passengers into taxicabs.” The public schools operate with surprising inefficiency, with students scoring the lowest numbers in Europe despite having four times as many teachers as Europe’s highest ranked system, in Finland. There are there separate government owned defense corporations. As for Greek health care, it is…

Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading

By Stephanie Frank

…it was not simply about consolidating power; it was also designed to make Greece suffer. That is, owing to the psychology of debt, Greece’s pain is not a byproduct, but a requirement. For Nietzsche, civilization is built on our ability to make and keep promises. Angela Merkel’s comments following on the final European proposal revealed a subtext of anger at broken promises: she used the language of ‘trust.’ After the referendum, she lamented, “Th…

SCOTUS Tackles Government Prayer in Greece v. Galloway

By Becky Garrison

…lishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. AU argues that Greece is different for several reasons, according to Boston: One, the prayers are sectarian. Two, it’s local government. In a statehouse or in U.S. Congress, the prayers are directed at the lawmakers. Legislators appoint chaplains, but the prayers tend to be non-sectarian. Legislators don’t have to be present. In Greece, they are broadcast out toward the community. The cr…

Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…elopment has me eating my words. In response to an apparently overwhelming number amount of requests by atheists to give invocations, the Town of Greece has recently changed their SCOTUS-approved policy to one that requires invocation-givers to be members of “assemblies with an established presence in the Town of Greece that regularly meet for the primary purpose of sharing a religious perspective.” The standard of “established presence” is alread…

Americans United To Launch “Operation Inclusion” After SCOTUS Prayer Decision

By Sarah Posner

…ials are, post-Greece, revisiting their policy of non-sectarian prayer, which resulted from a settlement of a lawsuit brought by AU, challenging their practice of reciting the Lord’s Prayer to open meetings. Samuel Wilson, a Republican County Council member, told the News Journal that the Greecedecision “was good news. It might not be for the atheist but it is for the believer.” “Some people are getting the idea that the Greece decision creates a…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

God’s Amicus Curiae on Town of Greece v. Galloway SCOTUS Case

By Peter Laarman

…ogue upon learning that Obama’s Solicitor General has sided with the town: Greece, New York? Oh, right: Those guys have been asking me to show up for their council meetings for a long time. I tried to go once, but it’s really hard to pay attention. Nobody ever watches the meetings on public access TV, so why should I have to sit through them? Snow removal budgets, a new contract for the sanitation guys, that sort of thing. I do remember from that…

After Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations

By Sarah Posner

…ount to an Establishment Clause violation. Given the nature of the Town of Greece prayers, the decision left many wondering how egregious a violation would have to be before the Court would find it unconstitutional. While such a case might exist and become a target of litigation, the humanists are taking another approach: building on Justice Kennedy’s admonition that municipalities must strive to identify a diversity of local religions from which…

After Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations

By Sarah Posner

…ount to an Establishment Clause violation. Given the nature of the Town of Greece prayers, the decision left many wondering how egregious a violation would have to be before the Court would find it unconstitutional. While such a case might exist and become a target of litigation, the humanists are taking another approach: building on Justice Kennedy’s admonition that municipalities must strive to identify a diversity of local religions from which…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…