Why Egypt is America’s Enemy
So what should we do now? Nothing.
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My God, David Brooks
One senses that in Brooks’ reading of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age the principle of choice becomes its own form of transcendence.
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Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”
When we read of Enlightenment efforts to rehabilitate the image of Islam alongside the fact that outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann raised more than $1 million in 25 days from a Muslim-themed witch hunt, it’s easy to ask how such openness could curdle into such paranoia. But that would be too simple.
Read MoreAmerican Infidel: Robert Ingersoll Was the “Great Agnostic” of the (Last) Gilded Age
My grandfather, born to immigrants in 1878, was undoubtedly familiar with the all-but-forgotten figure of Robert Green Ingersoll, the “Great Agnostic,” who popularized Darwin for the millions, who championed the disgraced Thomas Paine, and who kept alive the important tradition of American free thought during the last quarter of the 19th century.
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Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion
The debate over the “Defense of Religion Act” in North Carolina played out with the predictability of a sitcom. I offer this modest proposal, then, to remind both sides that if this is a war, then they have fought to a stalemate, and it is time for some new tactics, by which I mean: the history of religion in America demonstrates that the winner of the culture war will be the side that does the opposite of everything they are doing now.
Read MoreSecularism Destigmatized
That’s just step one.
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New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers
Almost half of the world’s countries have laws or policies that penalize blasphemy, apostasy, contempt of religion, or religious “hate speech.”
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Why the Great Religious Realignment is a Great Secular Opportunity
On freedom of religion in campaigning and beyond.
Read MoreWhy the Culture Wars Aren’t on their Way Out, Despite Rise of “Nones”
But there’s an opportunity for secular politics.
Read MoreDoes the Secularism Movement Need to Check into Rehab?
A bloggingheads discussion.
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