…of for-profit charter schools that siphon off public dollars for the private enrichment of corporate managers, provide public dollars for religious education, and remain totally unaccountable to the taxpaying public…

…poor people looking for jobs. Religious leaders want more credulous minds and donors filling their pews in church, and labor unions want a flood of fresh laborers to swell their…

…was such a good idea it lasted through the millennia and was coded into religious law: “honor thy father and thy mother so that thy days will be long in…

…of a believer’s belief system. A belief system, whether from peer pressure, parental teaching, religious training, … allows for interpreting reality without applying thought or reasoning. Thought, the product of…

…politics, with these largely defined by their religious affiliations. This collapse has become life threatening, with Juan Cole reporting that as many as half of the children in the nation…

…their religious beliefs on the rest of us. And, there are a lot, a craven lot, of Congress Critters, and a couple, and now more, head-case Supreme Court Justices, more…

…some have even accused him of engaging in “the War on Christmas” with his suggestion.  A quite religious colleague of mine who was a journalist once upon a time wrote…

…of the calling. I ran this conjecture by a leading Godwin scholar who found it entirely plausible and consistent with his own writing on Godwin’s secularization of religious motifs. “The…

…complainants are individuals and small companies wanting to buy insurance that excludes coverage for contraception and pre-exposure prophylaxis. The complainants object to on religious and moral grounds. The kind of…

…always, perforce, we need ask, “how should it be?” Why do we punish? Was the threat of punishment adopted as a way of maintaining ‘law and order’? Social order? Religious…