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• Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | David Shariatmadari

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | David Shariatmadari The pope warns of radical secularism; storm grows over closure of Ireland’s Vatican embassy; Gaudi inspires Catholic conversion• Rome has had a busy few days. Before advising the faithful on the uses and abuses of ...
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• Who is Ready to be Secular?

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 101
  1/25/2012—I am now working on a series of reflections that will become a paper for the April 13, colloquium at Duquesne Law School, at which representatives from three law schools will present forms of works in progress. My contribution will be entitled The End of Religion in Law , and it will flow from a précis ...
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• Jesus Hopped the A Train

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 101
  1/22/2012—Saturday night, I saw a play at the New Hazlett Theater on the Northside in Pittsburgh, just a few blocks from our house. It was a powerful experience. The play is set largely at Rikers Island and examines the relationship among two prisoners—Angel Cruz and Lucius Jenkins—a lawyer representing Cruz ...
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• One Market Under God

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 101
  1/21/2012—Kevin Kruse, Associate Professor of history at Princeton, hyped his upcoming book, One Nation Under God: Corporations, Christianity, and the Rise of the Religious Right , by writing a piece on January 17, on the New York Times blog, Campaign Stops . I hope the book is better than the column. The basic ...
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• Foiled Bangladesh coup shows army is pro-democracy: experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) The Bangladesh Army, which has earlier seized power, has proved its loyalty to democracy by foiling a coup attempt aimed at ousting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, experts in Bangladesh and India said Friday.The army moved decisively by arresting two former army officers who had plotted the ...
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• Citizens Sue to Stop ‘Lord’s Prayer’ Recitation at Delaware County Council Meetings

  
  Jehovah's Witnesses News and Archive — Authority: 139
  Intense debate over the presence of prayers in the public square — especially Christian ones — is nothing new. In recent weeks,  we‘ve covered a teen atheist’s successful campaign  to ban a prayer mural in a Rhode Island public high school. Now, there’s another battle brewing in Wilmington, Delaware, over ...
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• Daily Blend: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

  
  Preliator pro Causa — Authority: 120
  Sen. Beth Moura (R-RI) Let’s hope today becomes known as The Day That Both the Internet and SOPA Died TM . Lawsuit : CT Muslim college student reports sexual harassment, gets reported for terrorism by harasser and expelled. Another Rhode Island politician, Sen. Beth Moura (R) [pictured] , feels the ...
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• Stand against homophobia on the Vancouver School Board

  
  Terahertz — Authority: 100
  Robin Perelle, writing for Xtra!, gives a good background on the swell of opposition to anti-homophobia policy in the lower mainland. Basically, NPA trustees Ken Denike and Sophia Woo have been caught red-handed in videos lying to the Christian Social Concern Fellowship that Vancouver has no anti-homophobia policy, ...
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• 19/01/90: When Kashmiri Pandits fled Islamic terror

  
  Agent Provocateur — Authority: 396
  First they came for the Communists, and I didnt speak out because I wasnt a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didnt speak out because I wasnt a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didnt speak out because I wasnt a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out ...
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• The God bone’s connected to the Tebow: Tom Bartlett

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 411
  By Tom Bartlett I know everyone will agree with me that it is unseemly seeing inter-racial couples showing affection in public. Don’t get me wrong – I acknowledge that they have a right to get married, but do they need to rub it in the faces of the rest of society? Hand-holding and a peck on the cheek should be ...
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• But Why Can’t People Just Practice a Scientific Way of Life?

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 101
  1/18/2011—I was talking to members of the Center for Inquiry in Pittsburgh about the power of religion, and its capacity to promote healthy ways of life, when someone asked the above question, why can’t we all practice science? I answered that the practice of science is inevitably only for an elite, not for ...
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• Video: Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0

  
  One Furious Llama — Authority: 97
  An excellent, insightful talk by Alain de Botton that covers some things that Atheism/Secularism can learn (and steal) from religion; useful things that religions do (no really, they do some actually useful things, strange as that may sound…) very well that secular society seems not to. He makes several ...
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• Queen Mary’s Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society, cowed into silence by Islamist extremists at University of London

  
  eChurch Christian Blog — Authority: 470
  To some of us it will come as no surprise that this incident happened at the University of London: ‘Five minutes before the talk was due to start a man burst into the room holding a camera phone and for some seconds stood filming the faces of all those in the room. He shouted ‘listen [...]
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• Five Steps to Civil Rights in a Secular Ireland

  
  michaelnugent.com — Authority: 92
  These are five steps to civil rights in a secular Ireland. Atheist Ireland is lobbying to promote these proposals on an ongoing basis. We welcome any feedback before we send the final version of this list to all TDs and Senators. Overview Atheist Ireland wants a secular Irish State, where we each have the right to ...
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• Quote of the Day

  
  eChurch Christian Blog — Authority: 470
  A molecular biologist friend of mine in Cambridge once told me that the saddest aspect of the work of people like Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins was the way they identified evolution with atheist materialism. The result, among those Christians, Muslims and others who had little understanding of science, was ...
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• Freedom of Religion and the Secular State now published

  
  Talking Philosophy — Authority: 106
  Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (by Russell Blackford, 2012) If we use Amazon’s date for it, at least the date that is there this morning, today is the publication date for Freedom of Religion and the Secular State . In practice, the book will be available at slightly different times in different ...
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• Moving Secularism Forward, March 2012

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 558
  Because of scheduling conflicts* I can’t make ScienceOnline2012 (I had planned to make it). But I thought I would put in an announcement here that in a month and a half I’ll be at the Moving Secularism Forward conference put on by the Center for Inquiry . I’m going to be on a political panel on Saturday ...
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• Can you have freedom of religion without freedom from religion?

  
  dwnomad — Authority: 111
  Its common for the religious right, people like my own representative in the House of Representatives, Mike Simpson (R-ID2) to make claims like : I am deeply concerned about the recent trend toward judicial attacks on our religious freedoms. The freedom of religion that America’s early immigrants sought—and ...
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• Legal Periodical by William Saunders: “Does Neutrality Equal Secularism? The European Court of Human Rights Decides Lautsi v. Italy”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 445
  William Saunders The Federalist Society Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011: Religion can be an intensely personal activity. However, the idea that religion is only a private, personal devotion with no public political consequences is relatively new. For many nations in Europe, religion, in particular ...
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• Daily Blend: Sunday, January 15, 2012

  
  Preliator pro Causa — Authority: 120
  Rep. Peter Palumbo (D-RI) Rep. Peter Palumbo [pictured] (D-RI) claims “evil little thing” 16-year-old Jessica Ahlquist was “coerced by evil people” into getting rid of her school’s prayer banner. Kindly remind him of his loyalties. (via @pzmyers ) Moral Panic of the Day: Super-alcoholic ...
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