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Christian Conservatives Turn Off A Generation Of Voters (Or Maybe Not)

…e political dimensions of religion as being conservative, and that’s been true in America over the last 20-30 years, but that’s not been true in America historically….Progressives at their peril ignore the power of religious rhetoric and religious organization and religious motivation for making social change. Nor does disaffiliation mean, as is sometimes argued, that conservative Christians are winning the hearts and souls of the church over more…

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No Need to Choose Between Religious and Secular America

…ellow secularists as well as for believers. The national motto, In God We Trust, raises the question whether reality is trustworthy or is just random events? These questions have nothing to do essentially with the existence of supernatural beings. There is a great deal of common ground possible here. We don’t have to choose between being a secular nation or a religious one. Is there anything you had to leave out? In three books, I said everything…

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To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

…mopolitan, egalitarian, and cooperative counterculture, the Waltons of the world created one that now spans the globe. Equally striking is that their world looks to them the same way we would see ours: grassroots, anti-establishment, humane, and compassionate. Moreton’s scholarship and accessible style make this revelation all the more chilling. Wal-Mart won the hearts and minds of a generation while we, focused on our own battles, missed the war….

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Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

…boring, or ultra-secretive candidates? As of now, I’m afraid the answer is that they will be thus undone. That’s so depressing to contemplate. What the bien pensant class is doing now to Ron Paul—latex gloves and all—augurs an increasingly flat political world; a world without subtlety that this correspondent would rather not inhabit. *This passage has been altered to more accurately reflect Paul’s contortions over the years with respect to the co…

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Pope’s Liberal Defenders are Missing the Point

…at he is not going to promote division in the Church by supporting the old politics of thinly-veiled homophobia and misogyny that accompanied so much previous episcopal politicking on matters of sexuality, gender, and the family. That change in tone is so constructive—but by itself it’s insufficient. This is the point that the flame war over the Francis-Davis meeting completely smoked out: When it comes to the matter of same-sex marriage and the n…

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Revisiting Philip Roth’s 2004 Novel that Predicted the Trump Election

…reading is not a story of political hatred, but an intimate family drama. Politics takes place in the home, and those politics are mundane, sad, and humiliating. Jews shed each other’s blood as they fight, clumsily, over what to do. Anxious parents hit their children. Roth’s villain—the man who implements the whole grim assimilationist scheme—is a pompous, ambitious New Jersey rabbi. This is starkly different from the heroic-and-tragic, good-vers…

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Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion is Fair Game

…ng generous), they’re wrong. They assume, for one thing, that religion and politics can be disentangled. Sometimes they can be. Sometimes they can’t. For another, these liberals behave as if politics is somehow taking religion hostage. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote Monday night: “When politicians use faith as an excuse to pass and uphold laws that seize control of people’s bodies but not guarantee them healthcare, feed the poor, she…

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Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

…ish fails to mention that while the US Constitution provides for a secular politics, it’s a different kind of secular politics than that of some European nations; premised as it is on respect for conscience—especially religious conscience. The document is not grounded consistently in the strident form of liberalism that Fish portrays. Indeed, it is curious that Fish refers to the Smith decision, while ignoring the significant controversy it sparke…

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Trump’s CPAC Meltdown Wasn’t Just Comedy Gold, It Was Groundbreaking Extremism

…ns’s southern accent. SNL’s writers just let the clips roll, knowing that Trump’s truth was funnier than anything they could make up. However, it’s important to point out that no other president prior to Trump has actually spoken at public right wing events like CPAC and The Values Voter Summit. Occasionally, a Republican administration official may make an appearance like at the 2006 Values Voter Summit when then-White House Press Secretary Ton…

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On Guns and Religious Liberty, Ben Carson “Not an Authentic Adventist”

…itness to God’s government and coming kingdom, not to promote the might of worldly empires. That would appear to be a religious worldview that would alarm some of Carson’s biggest fans. Hines hopes that Carson isn’t asked on the national stage to explain Adventist eschatology, which portrays the American government as one that will eventually, in league with the Catholic Church, persecute Adventists for their observance of the Saturday Sabbath. It…

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