
Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 17, 2020
Religious Stigma Isn’t Created by Your Neighbors
A poll found that 82% of Americans feel that it is very important for Christians to be allowed to practice freely, while only...
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March 17, 2020
A poll found that 82% of Americans feel that it is very important for Christians to be allowed to practice freely, while only...
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March 15, 2020
The very bottom of the money-making barrel, in my mind, would be selling drugs or people. I don’t know whether Ortega has...
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March 8, 2020
I never heard about Scientology when I was in high school. Most likely because news didn’t travel so fast back when I was...
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March 2, 2020
Turns out they were attending a meeting of Baptist pastors at the hotel. Once we straightened out our respective denominational...
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February 19, 2020
Dr. Singer is long dead now, gone to whatever religion’s Hell will deign to accept her. But she has her disciples who carry...
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February 7, 2020
It was one of those moments in which every single second seems to last a painful eternity.
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February 7, 2020
You are talking to a percentage of the population that would hate YOU if you caught their attention enough.
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February 7, 2020
Well, is religion that dangerous or irrelevant? Should we consider being evangelical about the gospel of Nothingness? Shall...
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February 6, 2020
It got me thinking: who actually works at tabloids like that? What are their story pitch meetings like? Do they know that...
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February 4, 2020
This is how it played out: At around midday on November 22, a passenger sitting in the train pulled out his phone to film...
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February 3, 2020
I actually saw this question in an online forum the other day: “If I wanted to start my own cult, how would I do it?”...
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January 26, 2020
No one’s religion was cause for offense. No difference in color, social standing, job or education impacted the way we interacted.
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January 25, 2020
The thing that Scientologists take issue with is the lack of science behind so much of the psychiatric community’s categorizations...
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January 21, 2020
Sometimes the bar isn’t set very high, like the year my son said that his primary objective for the next 12 months was to...
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January 16, 2020
Last week I had an unusual phone conversation with a client I’m doing some screenplay rewrite work for. He was somewhere...
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January 14, 2020
I made it 31 minutes in, to the scene that managed to insult Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Rastafarianism, and...
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December 30, 2019
When I was traveling through Arkansas with a business partner, our host pointed out a burned-out establishment and proclaimed...
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December 30, 2019
If bigotry were simple, we would have already solved it. But it isn’t and we haven’t. So here’s a look at the roots...
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December 29, 2019
There’s a Jewish legend about what happens to us before we are born. An Angel appears and introduces us to all the high...
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December 28, 2019
Then there have been a slew of high-profile tragedies including the New Zealand mosque attacks, the Easter Sunday bombing...
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December 27, 2019
On August 3, 2013, Kayla Mueller was kidnapped by ISIS fighters outside of a hospital in Northern Syria. She had traveled...
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