Religion Dispatches
In the race to define race, the issue for modern science is bound up in a paradoxical reality: while most scientists believe race is a social construct, over 10,000 articles have been published in the past 5 years on the role of race in disease. What can Obama do?
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Religious right boycotters have a new product to avoid along with Charmin toilet paper, Tide detergent, Pampers, Bounty paper towels, Duracell batteries, Mallomars (oh, the torture!), Oscar Mayer hot dogs, Nilla wafers, and Big Macs…
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Intellectual and philosophical encouragement for America’s largest and most invisible minority: atheists, agnostics, secularists, and the undecided.
Read MoreFundamentalist Mormons are in the news again, in Canada, where two men are being tried for polygamy. But what if it were legal? Women might benefit.
Read MoreSure it was nice that Obama gave a shout out to nonbelievers, but the president’s actions during the campaign give pause to the nation’s atheists and agnostics.
Read MoreWhen is an apology not an apology? When it’s just part of a public relations campaign.
Read MoreThe disgraced pastor is in the spotlight again, apologizing for past misdeeds. But we should not allow the focus to remain on his personal failings; it’s his politics and worldview that need to be challenged.
Read MoreFocus on the Family condemns “No Name Calling Week” in schools as a ploy by homosexuals to get people to accept them. How devious.
Read MoreBenedict decides to rescind the excommunications of four bishops, all of whom are antagonistic toward Judaism, and one of whom is a holocaust-denier.
Read MoreHouse Republicans need to choose their battles wisely; so far wisdom has not entered into the equation.
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