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      Trump’s EO to ‘Combat Antisemitism’ Wields Jewish Safety as a Weapon to Crush Palestine Solidarity
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      Freedom for ‘Q Shaman’ and Justice for Leonard Peltier Are Mutually Exclusive
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      Despite the GOP Devolving into a White Christian Nationalist Party, Majority of U.S. Does Not Support Christian Nationalism
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      JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
    • Freedom for ‘Q Shaman’ and Justice for Leonard Peltier Are Mutually Exclusive
      Freedom for ‘Q Shaman’ and Justice for Leonard Peltier Are Mutually Exclusive
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      Despite the GOP Devolving into a White Christian Nationalist Party, Majority of U.S. Does Not Support Christian Nationalism
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      JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
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      Trump’s EO to ‘Combat Antisemitism’ Wields Jewish Safety as a Weapon to Crush Palestine Solidarity
    • Freedom for ‘Q Shaman’ and Justice for Leonard Peltier Are Mutually Exclusive
      Freedom for ‘Q Shaman’ and Justice for Leonard Peltier Are Mutually Exclusive

Andrea Bistrich

Andrea Bistrich is a journalist based in Munich, Germany.

(A)theologies, CultureJuly 20, 2009

Interview with Karen Armstrong

By Andrea Bistrich

The best-selling scholar says that the Bible is more violent than the Qur’an, that religious fundamentalism is political, and more.

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