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Profits Over Principles for Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…e undoubtedly gave such sermons and lessons. Certainly, as a missionary in France when he was 19-21, Romney would have warned investigators of Mormonism who were using tobacco that they could not be baptized without completely quitting their tobacco habit. But in his business life Romney was willing to promote products which he knew to have a deleterious effect on users. As a consequence of Bain and other companies’ promotion of Big Tobacco, cigar…

Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…e able to. Just review the last one hundred years of Mesopotamian history. France and Britain had long desired to control the Ottoman Empire’s Levantine territories, Zionists aimed to colonize Palestine, and the Russians wanted the Bosphorus. World War I gave them their chance. But let’s focus on Iraq. Largely Indian forces, mostly Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus under British command, seized Baghdad from the Ottomans by the end of the First World War….

Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value

By Daniel Schultz

…in religious faith. Given the hard-line separation of church and state in France, this isn’t a perfect fit; the protests were directed at the church, rather than any political authority, after all. But it’s a tantalizing angle worth drawing out for further exploration. More to the point of media criticism, it’s a big fat old ghost that the main character of the story is pointing directly at. Why on earth would you not want to pursue it in some de…

American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

By Brian Kaylor

…ideration of those pesky little voices from unholy and sinful nations like France and Germany. We could find ourselves demanding that other nations follow our commandments and dictates because we know better than they about how they should live their lives. We could find ourselves believing—as George W. Bush blasphemously declared during his 2003 State of the Union Address—that the American people have replaced Jesus with their “power, wonder-work…

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

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ronically, even Lady Liberty herself is a foreign immigrant—an import from France. As Customs and Border Protection personnel detained “dozens and dozens” of people, Lady Liberty was uncrowned of her justice, her guiding torch extinguished, and the liberative tablet shattered. How long can Lady Liberty stand without her righteous regalia, and how will the Liberty Bell ring for freedom with its widening crack? The so-called colorblind and religious…

The Pope is Not a Biblical Literalist

By Kate Childs Graham

During Pope Benedict’s recent visit to France, he spoke at the College des Bernardins in Paris to “representatives from the world of French culture.” In his speech he spoke out against Biblical Literalism and fundamentalism. He stated: Scripture requires exegesis, and it requires the context of the community in which it came to birth and in which it is lived. This is where its unity is to be found, and here too its unifying meaning is opened up….

The “Religious Freedom” Issue That May Cost the Accused Boston Bomber His Life

By Anthony Santoro

…rgued that potential jurors might be biased based by the recent attacks in France, or because the region was so traumatized by the 2013 marathon bombing, there may be quite another cause for concern. At the beginning of January, more than 1,200 people were summoned to the federal courthouse in Boston. These potential jurors in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s forthcoming trial were questioned in groups of 200 as the presiding judge winnowed the multitude down,…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…again.” A priest in Canada was convicted of sexual abuse and then moved to France, where he was convicted of abuse again in 2005. Massachusetts priest Father Pezzotti was credibly accused in several cases of abuse, one of which settled for $175,000 in 1993. However, from 1970 to 2003, Pezzotti was in Brazil, where he worked with the Kayapo Indians. Pezzotti went to Italy in 2003, but returned to Brazil in 2008. A few months later, the man he had s…

Talmud on Trial: Interfaith Dialogue in the 13th Century

By Michael Schulson

In 1240, King Louis IX of France took the unusual step of holding a trial for the Talmud. Books rarely receive judicial proceedings, but Pope Gregory IX was urging European leaders to take action against the big book of law and lore that is both central to rabbinic Judaism and, according to Gregory, potentially offensive to all of Christendom. A group of French rabbis appeared in the book’s defense. The prosecutor, Nicholas Donin, who’d converted…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…he globe. During the weekend, there were (mostly young) men and women from France, Italy, Germany, Russian, Israel, the U.S., Japan, Argentina and India. Some, like us, were there for a short stay, but others came to study at the multiversity for a week or even several months. Still others worked at the resort, supplying volunteer labor in exchange for courses. Seekers came to Osho to satisfy their spiritual needs. Most wanted to find their best s…