May 29, 2012

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Christian America

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Gitmo And Hypocrisy: Selectively Living By The Intentions Of The Founders And The Bible

Julie Ingersoll | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Guantanamo, Founding Fathers, Religious Right, Christian America, Tea Party, David Barton, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Religion News

Yet exactly half of those first 10 amendments in the Constitution, that we call the Bill of Rights, explicitly protect the rights of the accused.

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Gingrich Panders To Biblical Worldview Crowd

Julie Ingersoll | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Christian Reconstructionism, Christian America, Newt Gingrich, David Barton, Biblical Worldview, Gingrich Religion, Religion and Politics, Gingrich Christian, Gingrich Christian Right, Religion News

Either Gingrich really would look to two extreme institutions to fill court vacancies, or he just thinks saying he would will secure him support from a key part of the GOP base.

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The Return Of 'Christian America'?

Kevin M. Schultz | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Christianity, Religion, Judeo-Christian, Mike Huckabee, American Religion, Trifaith, United States, Civil Religion, Christian Nation, Christian America, Religion News

There is a long history to the idea that the United States is a Christian nation. The idea has come and gone with the prevailing politics.

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What Does It Mean To Be An 'Ex-Christian'?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christian Decline, Drew Dyck, Generation Ex-Christian, Converting From Christianity, Christian America, Leaving Christianity, Christianity in America, Christianity Today, Religion News

By Greg Richter Religion News Service (RNS) Drew Dyck didn't lose the Christian faith of his childhood when he became an adult, but he noticed that l...

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The History Of Yoga And Religion In America

Leigh E. Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoga used to make a Christian nation writhe; now it has become an embodiment of the country's religious and social elasticity.

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The Christian Right in Context: The Obama Years

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Christian America, Jim Wallis, God's Politics, Kingdom of God, James Dobson, Tea Party Movement, Christian Right, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, Restoring Honor Rally, Christian Fundamentalism, Sarah Palin's America, Christian Social Justice, Values Voters, Christianity in America, Glenn Beck Rally, Religion News

The "Christian America" vision pushed by the Christian Right stands in stark contrast with the biblical vision of the kingdom of God.

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The Christian Right In Context: Politics Over Persuasion

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

By the 1960s, the world was out of joint again, prompting the rise of the Christian Right.

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The Christian Right In Context: Building A Christian America

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biblical Criticism, Kingdom of God, Christian Right, Christian America, American Religion, Second Great Awakening, Christian Fundamentalism, American Revivalism, Christianity in America, Christian Fundamentalist Movement, Christian Social Justice, Religion News

The Second Great Awakening and the Fundamentalist Movement sought to transform the United States into a distinctly Christian nation and, in that way, paved the way for the Christian Right of our own time.

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The Christian Right in Context, Part 1: The Long View

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert N. Bellah, Kingdom of God, Christian Nation, Civil Religion, Christian Right, Christian America, American Religion, Christian Conservatives, Christians in America, American Revivalism, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Right, Islam in America, Religion News

The Christian Right has claimed from its inception that others -- liberals, secularists and humanists -- were eroding the values of the nation that they sought to affirm and protect. In that claim we find the seeds of the current American crisis.

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A Third Way For The 'Christian Nation' Debate

Gabe Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: America Religion, American Pluralism, Religion in America, Religious Plurality, Christian America, Christian Nation, America Christian Nation, America Religious Tolerance, Religious Pluralism, Christianity in America, Tripoli, Religion News

Rather than being engaged in a divisive cultural war in the hopes of turning back time, Young Christians are engaged in pressing social concerns that benefit the common good -- not just the Christian good.

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Increased Numbers Now Link Christian Faith To Being American

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christian American, Christian Faith America, Christian Identity America, American Identity, Christian America, Purdue Survey Christianity, American Christianity, Christianity in America, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) As the U.S. has grown more diverse, more Americans believe that being a Christian is a key aspect of b...

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Searching for Life Amid the Death of "Christian America"

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Christians, Christianity, Christian America, Gabe Lyons, Millennial Generation, The Next Christians, Western Religion, The Future, American Christianity, Religious Trends, Book Review, Religion News

One of the foundational questions asked by Christians throughout history has been, "Can people experience life after death?" But with the faith's decl...

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The Myth Of A 'Christian Nation'

Religion News Service | By A. James Rudin | Posted 05.25.2011

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By A. James Rudin Religion News Service (RNS) The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited with saying that "everyone is entitled to their own o...

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No, Mr. Beck, Congress Did Not Print a Bible for the Use of Schools

Chris Rodda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Historical Revisionism, Glenn Beck, American History, David Barton, Christian America, Christian Nation, Media News

David Barton, the pseudo-historian from Texas who's probably more responsible than any other individual for spreading the erroneous belief that America was founded as a Christian nation, has now teamed up with Glenn Beck.

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Christopher Hitchens Debates Kenneth Blackwell About Religious Influence In America (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.17.2011

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Christopher Hitchens was a guest on Hardball tonight along with Kenneth Blackwell, from the Family Research Council, to discuss Newsweek's recent cove...

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The End Of Christian America: Newsweek

Newsweek | Jon Meacham | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Christianity America, Religion, Christianity, Christian America, American Religion, Healthy Living News

The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now--and what, as a ...

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