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Why the press gives McCain a pass for consorting with batshit holy men, but condemns Obama to talk-show hell for the same sin.
By Gary Kamiya
May 20, 2008
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My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit.
By Cary Tennis
May 15, 2008
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How can I live a good life, now that I've come out to my wife? What if I succumb to temptation?
By Cary Tennis
May 12, 2008
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Black religion expert Jonathan Walton on black liberation theology's roots in slavery, MLK Jr.'s "God damn America moment" and what Jeremiah Wright has in common with Gennifer Flowers.
By Sarah Posner
May 3, 2008
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We're both atheists raised by fundamentalists, and we're afraid they'll be indoctrinated.
By Cary Tennis
April 4, 2008
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Holy Week is a good time to ask: Do we really believe or do we just like to hang out with nice people and listen to organ music?
By Garrison Keillor
March 19, 2008
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Foreign correspondent and intellectual provocateur Chris Hedges explains why New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens are as dangerous as Christian fundamentalists.
By Charly Wilder
March 13, 2008
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According to author Amy Sullivan, liberals don't have to sell their souls to convert Christian Republicans.
By Vincent Rossmeier
February 26, 2008
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Former born-again Christian John Marks journeyed back into the evangelical America he'd left behind and discovered the promise -- and limitations -- of faith.
By Louis Bayard
February 25, 2008
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Step right up, folks, and read the one true guide to Western and Eastern esoteric societies from the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians. Relics, totems and secret handshakes revealed!
By Laura Miller
January 28, 2008
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Mike Huckabee's affinity for religious extremism is no secret. But is biblical law at the heart of his presidential vision?
By Joe Conason
January 18, 2008
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My experience contradicts what I have been taught. I feel guilty and alone.
By Cary Tennis
January 18, 2008
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Forget Christmakkah and Festivus. Our interfaith holiday involves a magical rooster who fills the children's pants with presents.
By Christopher Noxon
December 22, 2007
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Do not pity me: I prefer solitude.
By Cary Tennis
December 20, 2007
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Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?
By Laura Miller
December 19, 2007
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The messy history of cleanliness, and why our obsession with dirt may be making us sick.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
November 30, 2007
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Now that Giuliani has embraced Pat Robertson's endorsement, the mayor should have to answer for the preacher's extremism and outright loony talk.
By Joe Conason
November 9, 2007
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I've been lying to my family, my friends and my religious university -- I don't believe in God! I don't! I don't!
By Cary Tennis
October 25, 2007
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I don't believe in God but I want to allay her fears.
By Cary Tennis
October 4, 2007
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Doesn't everybody shower? Sixty percent of the men I meet on eHarmony say, "I can't stand someone who is not clean."
By Cary Tennis
September 26, 2007
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In "The Stillborn God," a history of the separation of church and state, Mark Lilla urges the West to remember the religious fanaticism in its past -- or risk its return.
By Laura Miller
September 24, 2007
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Do they actually believe my boyfriend and I aren't having sex -- can't they see I'm an adult?
By Cary Tennis
September 17, 2007
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Patrick Henry College grooms fundamentalist kids to be America's future leaders. A new book looks at how these elite students cope with the pressure to bridge secular and religious worlds.
By Elizabeth Svoboda
September 6, 2007
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Just how "Christian" is "domestic discipline"?
By Lynn Harris
August 22, 2007
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We do our Christian charity and then drink mimosas at a fancy hotel up the street. And that just seems so wrong!
By Cary Tennis
August 21, 2007
Psycho Christians and the media
The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?
Wright's theology not "new or radical"
Thinking weaselish thoughts at Eastertide
I don't believe in atheists
How to turn white evangelicals into Democrats
Are you going to hell?
The big secret about secret societies
Holy Constitution!
Irving the Snowchicken is coming to town
America's first Me Generation
The filthy, stinking truth
Rudy's new best friend
Divine politics
Jesus is my dorm advisor
Spare the rod, spoil the wife
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