Religious Freedom
September 3, 2019
To this day, the assailants that closed in on Ryan’s fallen body and riddled it with rifle and shotgun blasts have not been...
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Religious Freedom
August 23, 2019
There’s a day that now comes right after the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism. Because...
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Religious Freedom
August 15, 2019
Some smells made customers stay longer. Others had them fleeing the premises. The research also found odors needed to be appropriate—the...
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Religious Freedom
August 3, 2019
More than 30 years ago, Ivanir dos Santos began combating racial discrimination and promoting rights of members of minority...
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Religious Freedom
August 3, 2019
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that a 40-foot-high cross honoring residents of the Maryland town of Bladensburg...
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Religious Freedom
July 24, 2019
It was a big event: on its final day, a participant reported, “Close to 900 members of civil society and religious groups...
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Religious Freedom
June 25, 2019
In the weeks prior to the tragic raid, one such demagogue, the notorious convicted felon Rick Ross of the now defunct Cult...
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Religious Freedom
May 29, 2019
Religion is extremely valuable to society, but only when people are free to examine the subject for themselves and draw the...
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Religious Freedom
February 26, 2019
The origins of Islam in the U.S. today trace back to one simple concept, one word, three syllables: sla-ve-ry. When Ilhan...
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Religious Freedom
February 22, 2019
The case seems simple at first. Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray was convicted in 1995 of the rape and murder of a 15-year old...
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Religious Freedom
February 6, 2019
Reading this recent article about a jailed neo-Nazi trying to hide behind “religious freedom” to protect his hate speech...
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Religious Freedom
February 4, 2019
Somewhere, thousands of years before Christ, deep in China, a spark was lit. We don’t know if it was a man or a woman but...
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Religious Freedom
January 20, 2019
Probably everyone reading this post has personally observed the large and growing problem of homelessness in the United States....
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Religious Freedom
January 18, 2019
Somehow religion and government, these two important arenas of human interaction, must come to terms with one another and...
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Religious Freedom
January 8, 2019
Until the mid-1300s, witchcraft and magic had been quietly accepted as part of the mystic melting pot that was Europe. That...
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Religious Freedom
January 8, 2019
Isn’t that one of the key reasons religion exists? Besides recognizing and enhancing the spiritual aspect of humankind,...
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Religious Freedom
January 2, 2019
Some people see freedom as dangerous. They see people who cannot be enslaved as dangerous. They are the type who think that...
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Religious Freedom
December 19, 2018
On September 11, 2001, all that changed. As the nation focused on the War on Terrorism, religious freedom was no longer a...
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Religious Freedom
December 13, 2018
These “Bloggers of the Round Table” are an eclectic bunch: musicians, writers, lawyers, pilots, business owners, clergy…...
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Religious Freedom
December 3, 2018
One of my personal goals in 2018 has been to speak out, loudly and as often as necessary, to protect my religion, Scientology,...
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Religious Freedom
September 20, 2018
Growing up as an agnostic, John did not give religious matters too much thought. Nor did he assess his actions against any...
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Religious Freedom
September 12, 2018
You’ve probably never heard of Cyrus the Great, but if you admire and enjoy freedom of religion, freedom from slavery, and...
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Religious Freedom
August 13, 2018
Was Jonestown one of the worst massacres of innocent American men, women and children in history? What purpose could the deaths...
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Religious Freedom
July 16, 2018
Dr. Mootoo did not waver in his assessment of what had happened: the vast majority of Jonestown residents were victims of...
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Religious Freedom
July 11, 2018
The decision is a victory for the rights of religious groups to uphold standards for membership based on their own religious...
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Religious Freedom
July 1, 2018
In November 1988, the Chicago Tribune featured his comments in an article by Bruce Buursma. Holsinger, Buursma wrote, “has...
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Religious Freedom
May 15, 2018
Religion has been attacked and even its symbols are being aggressively removed from our society. School prayer, the Ten Commandments,...
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Religious Freedom
April 19, 2018
Just as scientists don’t rely on the blessings of priests to practice their disciplines, priests do not need the approval...
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Religious Freedom
April 1, 2018
Too often, man has seen rebellion as simply the opportunity to “do unto others as you believe they have done unto you.”...
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Religious Freedom
February 12, 2018
Religion in sports is sometimes a touchy subject. Sometimes after a big win, in a postgame interview, an athlete may thank...
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