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Fear and Homophobia: Not Dead Yet! Thanks, Maine!

Mark Morford | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, Washington State, Bible, Gay Rights, Love, Gay Marriage, Maine, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

Sadness and confusion have come 'round once more, chalked up yet another little victory, this time in the twee state of Maine, where the trees are exceedingly lovely this time of year.

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Was Mary a Template for Today's Feminism?

Petru Popescu | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Christianity, God, Feminism, Mary Mother of Jesus, Bible, Virgin Mary, Mary of Nazareth, Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Living News

The mother of Jesus became an icon a long time ago, and in many ways her icon is more powerful and haunting inside our psyche than the icon of her famed son.

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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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National Association of Evangelicals Provides Moral Model on Immigration Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Undocumented Immigrants, Nae, Biblical, Immigration, Immigrants, Evangelicals, Migrants, Leith Anderson, Legislative Debate, Immigrant, Immigration Reform, Biblical Foundations, Bible, National Association of Evangelicals, Politics News

Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.

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Susan Hutchison -- Washington State's Sarah Palin?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Washington State, Susan Hutchison, Bible, Evangelicals, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Next week, "nonpartisan" Susan Hutchison will be vying for the role of County Executive in King County, Washington. Is she a stealth right-winger and closest fundamentalist as some are saying?

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A Time for War, A Time for Peace Prizes

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: General Mcchrystal, Bible, Terrorism, War, President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Ecclesiastes, Peace, The Byrds, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

The Nobel Committee's puzzling decision to award President Obama with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize inspired me to return to Ecclesiastes.

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Not The Bible -- The Ultimate and Eternal Parody

Tony Hendra | Posted 10.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Andrew Schlafly, Conservative Bible Project, Christianity, Bible, Comedy News

Earlier this week, an enraged righty named Andrew Schlafly, fruit of his Blessed Mother Phyllis' virgin womb, together with some of his fellow pseudo-...

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The Brick Testament: The Bible Retold With Legos (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology

Read More: Illustrated Bible, Bible, Online Bible, Brick Testament, Rev. Brendan Powell Smith, Slideshow, Lego Bible, Reverend Brendan Powell Smith, Bible Told With Legos, Legos, Technology News

*See photos below* The world's largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible isn't at the Louvre, or the Prado, or the Met: It's on the web, and it's...

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Moses vs. Jesus: Who is America's Prophet?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Bible, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Thanksgiving, Jesus, George W. Bush, Liberty Bell, Christian Right, Pilgrims, Statue of Liberty, Moses, Barack Obama, Politics News

The themes of Moses' life -- social mobility, standing up to authority, balancing freedom and law, dreaming of a promised land -- would make any short list of America's defining traits.

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Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative Bible, Conservative Bible Version, Conservative Bible Group, Conservative Bible Project, Conservative New Bible, Bible, Bible Too Liberal, The Conservative Bible Project, Politics News

Lo and behold, the Bible has gotten too liberal, according to a group of conservatives. And it needs a little editing. That's the inspiration behind...

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Christians Vote on the Worst Verse in the Bible

Valerie Tarico | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Biblical Literalism, Biblical Inerrancy, Christian Fundamentalism, The Bible, Bible, Living News

It's a pleasure to land in the virtual company of believers who have no problem saying that sexism and homophobia and slavery and genocide are Bad, no matter how well credentialed their endorsers.

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A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Commandents, Yom Kippur, Right Wing Media, Nazi, Bible, Hitler, Chofetz Chayim, Judaism, Bloggers, Rosh Hashanah, Propaganda, Temple, Right Wing, Obama, Hebrew-Bible, Barack Obama, Michael Gerson, God, Mind.Body.Soul, Jewish, Torah, New Year's Resolution, Washington Post, Repentence, Confession, Hate Speech, Slander, Adolf Hitler, Loshon Hara, Ira Forman, Living News

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

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Where Have All the Christians Gone?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion and Politics, Religion, Atheistis, God, Jesus, Bible, Living News

In the coming months, America will become a minority Protestant nation for the first time since the Pilgrims. Non-believers now represent the third-highest group of Americans, after Catholics and Baptists.

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Do the Ten Commandments Support Gays in the Military?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Bill Clinton, Bible, Harry Truman, Moses, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Ten Commandments, Politics News

The Ten Commandments do not mention homosexuality. But the Five Books of Moses do, in ways that have plagued homosexuals for centuries.

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New International Version Bible To Undergo Revision

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home

Read More: New International Version, New International Version Bible, Bible, Bible Revision, Home News

The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen ...

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Why I Failed As an Atheist

Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Family Feud: If It Bends...

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Bill Cosby, Comedian Sunda Croonquist and Mother-in-Law, Bible, Kathy Griffin, Dylan Ratigan, Ruth Zafrin, Sunda Croonquist, Woody Allen, New York News

Oh, Ruth and Sunda. A lawsuit? Really? Mrs. Zafrin, Sunda is your son's wife and the mother of your grandchildren; a comedian in a long, long line of comedians who poke fun at their mothers-in-law.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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Charlton Heston the Face of the USA? How Moses Was Chosen for the Great Seal

Bruce Feiler | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Adams, Charlton Heston, Thomas Jefferson, Moses, Fourth of July, Red Sea, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Politics News

The committee's report offers vivid, behind-the-scenes evidence that the founders of the United States viewed themselves as acting in the image of Moses.

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Bible Story: Obama Awards "Moses" Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bruce Feiler | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Joshua Generation, George Washington, Mayflower, Bible, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Pilgrims, Moses, Harriet Tubman, Barack Obama, Exodus, Politics News

Obama is not the first president to connect the American spirit to the story of Moses: Washington compared the Revolution to the Exodus; Jefferson quoted Moses in his second inaugural.

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Q&A with Robert Wright (Part 1): There Is Some Larger Purpose At Work in the Universe

Terrence McNally | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: History, Religion, Qur'An, Purpose, Bible, The Evolution of God, Agnostic, Human Rights, God, Robert Wright, Evolution, Living News

In his new book, The Evolution of God, Robert Wright follows God's changing moods in ancient scripture, to see what circumstances brought out the best and worst in religions.

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Bible Study in Public Schools: Let's Pray on It

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Religion, New Testament, God, Bible, Old Testament, Biblical Stories, The Bible, Biblical Literalism, Separation of Church and State, Exodus, Church and State, God's Creation, Politics News

Let's agree to teach the bible in all of its bloody, misogynous, murderous, fratricidal glory. Let's teach our impressionable children the following facts about the word of god.

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Sudan's Female Genital Mutilation Countered By Henna-Dyed Hands

NYCity News Service | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Sudan has tried to eradicate female genital mutilation since 1946 to little avail. But now women's health groups have taken the crusade in their own hands--or rather, their own painted hands--in an effort to subvert the practice.

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When Being Jewish is Enough

Tamar Abrams | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Jews, Religion, Germany, Judaism, Bible, Hebrew, Christianity, Yiddish, Newfoundland, Tikkun Olam, Conversion, Mezzuzah, Living News

In the past several weeks, I've opened my front door to well-dressed people -- men and women, Black and white -- whose sole purpose seemed to be to talk to me about Jesus.

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