Killing For Religion, Not God
Among other things, Anders Breivik is foolish.
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Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial
Accused shooter’s pits “nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jews” against “Israeli nationalists.”
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Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?
In a video released on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin insists that violent rhetoric plays no role in influencing actions while claiming that those condemning the use of angry rhetoric and images are themselves manufacturing a “blood libel” that may well “incite…violence.” So which is it?
Read MoreTea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate Rally
The shocking video.
Read MoreCan Jewish Funds for Justice Oust Glenn Beck?
Jewish social justice group delivers 10,000 letters to Rupert Murdoch calling for Beck’s ouster.
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Pope Benedict’s Blind Spot on Holocaust
On numerous occasions Pope Benedict has ignored the connection between Christian anti-Semitism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism, and when posed a question about German responsibility for the Holocaust he fails to address it directly.
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Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement
Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent.
Pope Benedict ended his heavily protested visit to England…
Read MorePastor Has Novel Response: Read the Qur’an Day
Rather than burn it.
Read MoreMasculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination
The Week in Religion, Poetically
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Does Helen Thomas Work for Israel?
When I was a graduate student, a professor once told me “there are no coincidences.” Last week I believed him. In the wake of the Gaza Flotilla disaster (it was a disaster any way you look at it, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine), Israel was engaged in a fight it has not known for some time:…
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