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Why Spirituality Matters in America
At the time, 97 percent of Americans believed in God. By 2014, that number had shrunk to 63 percent. Does that mean Americans are abandoning spirituality? The answer is a resounding “no.”
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Why Stuart Wright is Wrong
I just read about Stuart Wright, the neo-Nazi hater of Jews, and God knows who else, who vandalized synagogues, and I’d like to say a few words to him. Francis Salvador, Haym Salomon, Mordecai Sheftall and Reuben Etting.
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What Does it Take to Maintain Freedom of Religion Against Hatred and Intolerance?
I was 28 when I met Gunnar and Lois and their son Anders. When they asked me what I thought about Nixon and Watergate, I had to buy an English-language news magazine to find out what they were talking about.
MEDIA WATCH
The New Trend Is Tolerance and Understanding—You Should Try It
Religion is a deeply personal thing. Don’t trash another’s, for it opens wide the doors for others to trash what you value.
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Anheuser, Please Cancel Your Subsidy of A&E’s Anti-Religious Hate-Propaganda TV
Your company’s reputation has become tarnished since I found out that you advertise on the Leah Remini show which has the sole purpose of spreading hatred and bigotry against the Church of Scientology, which has been my religion for the past 52 years.
MEDIA WATCH
STAND Informs Hollywood Reporter’s John Defore: Your Bigotry Is Unacceptable
While the bulk of our nation has spent the last several months making clear discrimination of any kind has no home in America today, you do not seem to have been following the news.
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The Age: Don’t Misrepresent My Religion Through Propaganda
Having contributed my own funds and volunteer time to my church to enable it to build better communities in Australia through drug education and human rights education programs which promote morals, common decency and more, I am very offended that The Age would allow one of its employees to slander my church and religion.
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STAND to the Daily Beast’s Sandy Boone: Respect Others’ Freedoms, Too
I would tell you that it is a free country and you and all other supporters and members of the Church of the Subgenius are entitled to a sense of humor, but you already know that and are already exercising those rights and freedoms.
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Are Science and Religion Compatible? New Survey Explores the Question
Many Muslims, for example, put forth the idea that science and Islam are compatible in most ways but acknowledged a conflict when it came to the theory of evolution—a conflict shared with many members of the other Abrahamic faiths, Judaism and Christianity, which hold in common with Islam the belief that God spontaneously created the Earth and Adam and Eve.
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Celebrating International Religious Freedom Day
The Religious Freedom Act—the passage of which we celebrate today—established the office of the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and highlighted America’s responsibility to the world in guaranteeing Human Right #18, Freedom of Thought and Belief .
