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Václav Havel: Democracy as Spiritual Discipline

…le still sitting president, and before Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Havel bared his mind, heart, and soul in a remarkable collection of essays written in the summer of 1991 and published in English by Knopf the following year as Summer Meditations. In contrast to Hitchens’ pyrotechnic polemics, these essays are imbued with a quiet conviction that politics should be a high moral calling.   Twenty years later, Havel’s m…

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The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion

…y. Christian nationalism will remain an existential threat to the American republic for decades to come. But for now, like Lincoln, we are celebrating a passing danger. A narcissist and would-be tyrant is out of power, and a man who, whatever you think of his politics, at least cares about other people has assumed the most powerful office in the history of the world. We are celebrating the triumph of empathy over cruelty. But while I believe that…

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Why Don’t Republicans Want to Allow Pastors to Endorse from Pulpit?

…er-present threat to religious liberty. It might help the voters that gave Republicans both house of congress, but it wouldn’t help those Republicans to help those voters quite that much. Taking the cynical view, the Republicans would seem to be better off keeping the toothless law that offends a little bit without actually keeping churches out of politics. Especially since removing that offense would only give Walter Jones, Jr. a legislative vict…

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Is ‘Beyond Doubt’ Correct About the Decline of Religion? Yes… Sort Of.

…nizing” nations, like the United States, China, Australia, Thailand, Czech Republic, and many more are becoming less religious by the day. Plus, the authors see good reasons to believe that this trend will continue for years to come. Beyond Doubt is written like a victory speech. It delivers a comforting message to nonbelievers and anyone else worried that Christianity—particularly its evangelical iterations—will continue to dominate American poli…

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Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24

…eep state. We will demolish woke tyranny, and we will restore the American republic to all of its radiant glory, and with God’s help and your support, we will make America powerful again. We want to have a powerful country. We need to have a powerful country. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. That’s what we want. We want strength. Think of your heart pounding, we will make America proud again. We will make Amer…

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Godless Oaths of Office

…—one that holds up religious heterodoxy as the very engine driving the new Republic, freedom of conscience as the very pulse-beat of her new traditions of innovation. Several years ago, I was called before a local magistrate to give testimony. The Judge asked me to raise my right hand and said, “Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you?” I waited a moment for the next word. But it never came. It is onl…

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Secede, For The Kingdom of Bernie Has Come Near

…ms more like it: As Thomas H. Naylor, the originator of the Second Vermont Republic, says, “Vermont provides a kinder, gentler, more communitarian alternative to a nation obsessed with money, power, size, speed, greed and fear of terrorism.” This is just warmed-over hippiespeak, of course. But then it was the hippies who moved “back to the land” and settled in communes, providing the most recent model for how the Benedict option might actually wor…

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The Muslim Ban May Be Unconstitutional, But It’s Not Un-American

…d more about protecting status. Coursing through the national veins of our republic is the poisoned blood flow of white supremacy. White supremacist logic marginalizes, subjugates, and often defines non-white minds and bodies in America as deficient “others.” With this broad ban, the 109 detained persons, countless others abroad, and all Americans are victims of constitutional violence. It is becoming abundantly clear that this normative gaze of A…

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Family Research Council’s Restoration Of “Christian” Morality

…tion. In his speech, Perkins issued a threat not just to Democrats, but to Republicans as well. “It’s absolutely essential that we send a message to Washington and the rest of the liberal establishment that we are not going anywhere,” a warning, no doubt against a developing theme that the tea party movement has somehow displaced the religious right. “Once we replace these politicians who ignore the people and the Constitution, then we must repeal…

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