Is Religion to Blame for Violence? Karen Armstrong’s Flawed Case
Just as I finished Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood, which is a very extended attack on…
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Top Five Toxic Religion Stories of 2014
From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.
Read MoreNews Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority
Worsening situation of Burma’s Muslims is instructive.
Read MorePunks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar
Punk rockers in Myanmar are gaining international attention for publicly denouncing Buddhist monks’ genocidal treatment of Muslim minorities.
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Did the Dalai Lama Just Call for an End to Religion?
The Dalai Lama recommends a radical new approach: a religionless religion, stripped of myth, superstition, and narrow dogmatism, and focused on the practical work of transforming human behavior.
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What about the peaceful, warm, accepting, cross-legged men wearing funny, exotic robes?
Read MoreDespite Religious Violence, Egyptian Mosques Calling for Muslim-Christian Unity
Otherwise you might as well send a message to al-Qaeda entitled “You’ve won.”
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Opening the Door to Hell: Jewish Terrorism in Israel
On August 31, a few days before the opening of the current American-led Middle East peace talks in Washington, four Israelis were killed by Hamas operatives in the West Bank. Among them was a pregnant woman. This did not bode well for the future of the talks, about which there was already a great…
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The Return of Christian Terrorism
Threats of right-wing violence have doubled in the past year. What is behind the latest upsurge in the movement to create a Christian theocratic state?
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Politicized Religion Fuels Christian-Muslim Violence In Nigeria
In a poverty-stricken nation with a failed state and rampant political corruption, the recent violence between Christians and Muslims has been blamed solely on religion. But to a reporter who spent two years covering Nigeria, it’s far more complicated than that.
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