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Reality Check for Religious Nuts: Laughing at You is Not Persecution
Religious nuts hate being mocked and laughed at when they say catastrophically stupid things, but that’s freedom of speech, not persecution
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7-Year-Old Banished Student Feels Wrath Of Evangelical’s Religious Freedom
In February of this year, a seven-year-old 2nd grade student in Indiana was “banished” from having any contact with other students because his teacher, a playground supervisor, and a school administrator concluded that the child’s “bad ideas” persecuted (offended) another student.
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No, Being Told You Can’t Persecute People is Not Persecution
Dr. Richard Land calls opposing persecution of others “ugly…thuggish…brutish. It’s the totalitarian left in all of its ugly face.”
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Pew Report Details the Sorry State of Religious Tolerance in the World
Pew tells us restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39% of countries and that Muslims are as likely to be persecuted as Christians
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Under Religious Right Threats, Duke University Backs Down over Muslim Use of Chapel
After granting Muslim students use of the school chapel bell tower for call to prayer, Duke University backed down in the face of Religious Right outrage
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America’s Reaction To 9/11 Played a Role In Paris Terror Attack
Of course down through the ages violent wars have been waged over imposition of a particular religion, but in modern times the basic premise among religious people was to live and let live. All that changed after the terror attacks on 9/11.
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Religious Purity Movement By Right-Wing Fanatics Threatens Faith in America
What is curious, is that although America is not, was not, and never will be a Christian nation, there are signs that a religious purity crusade is gaining traction.
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The Specter of a Controlling Islam Hides a Controlling Religious Right
It’s a neat trick, pretending facts don’t exist so you can replace them with some agenda-friendly invented facts. *Cough* Benghazi *Cough*
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Propaganda Demonizing Islam Is Starting to Infect Public Schools
Of course the Americans putting Goebbels’s propaganda tactics into practice are Fox News, neo-conservatives, Republicans, and their religious right sycophants, and their big lie is that the greatest threat to this nation is every person who adheres to the Muslim faith.
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It is Time for Peaceful Christians to Speak Up for Coexistence
According to the Religious Right, Islam is the enemy, and ISIL, or ISIS as it is often called, is a manifestation of all the hate and intolerance inherent in the world’s second largest religion. When President Obama says that ISIL is not Islam, the Religious Right quakes in outrage. Islam is the enemy! Sarah Palin…
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Pope Francis Condemns Those Who Use Religion to Promote Violence
“Let no one consider themselves to be the ‘armour’ of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!”
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The Persecution of Pagans Continues in the United States
This is the “freedom” demanded by the Religious Right – the freedom to hound those of whom they don’t approve, right out of town, and out of existence, if possible
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Bryan Fischer Says Sharia Law Preferable to First Amendment
Fischer says, “Just as we screen immigrants for contagious physical diseases, so we need to screen immigrants for contagious cultural diseases”
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Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Allow Them To Break Any Law
If Arizona Republicans are successful a new bill will give any Arizonan the right to break any law with impunity if it is in the name of religion.
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The Pope Calls Failed Christians Pagans – He is Wrong and This is Why
For the Pope, humility-challenged Christians are Pagans but it was the Church that found Jesus’ poverty and humility too radical to tolerate
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While Persecuting Everyone Else, the Religious Right Cries Persecution
Obama administration is the “modern-day equivalent” of ancient Rome, where each citizen is made to worship Caesar with progressivism.
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Religious Right Claims If We Allow Gay Marriage We Are Persecuting Christians
More cries of persecution coming out of the Religious Right: if we allow gay marriage we are persecuting Christians
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Grandmother Says She is Persecuted if She is Not Allowed to Convert Grandson
Visiting Grandma should not carry with it the prerequisite of conversion
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The Demographics of Progress and the Demise of the America of Conservative Dreams
The numbers don’t lie: they didn’t lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when they prove that America is becoming more, not less progressive.
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Sorry GOP: We Do Not Need Churches in order to Prosper Economically
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
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The Right’s Religious Liberty Lie Hides the Heart of the War on Women
Religious liberty proponents don’t understand that Obama’s policy does not require any man, or woman, to use contraception or to abandon their own religious prohibition against using birth control.