Category: 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
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Texas Board of Education Continues to Make Your Kids Stupider
Keep in mind that Texas is one of the main guides for textbooks published across the entire nation: The standard was about the Enlightenment and political revolutions that led to modern liberal democracy. So they removed the Enlightenment references and Thomas Jefferson, who played a key role in the two most prominent revolutions in the […]
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2012 Preview: Republicans v Secular America
Dan Kennedy previews the role of religion in the next presidential race: If you’re part of secular America – that is, if you’re an atheist, an agnostic, a religious liberal or even a mainstream believer who thinks religion should be kept out of politics and vice-versa – then you should be very afraid of what […]
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Satan Gets the Job Done
As we all know, Pat Robertson should be set of fire. Here’s a fun insight into his recent ‘Haiti made a deal with the devil = destruction’ stupidity: Say, what happened during that 1791 slave rebellion when the Haitians allegedly made a pact with the devil? “The Haitian uprising is regarded as one of history’s […]
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Tiller Murder Case May Be Downgraded from First Degree Murder
Tiller’s murderer may argue voluntary manslaughter: As his premeditated, first-degree murder trial begins Wednesday, no one — not even Roeder himself — disputes that he killed one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers. But what had been expected to be an open-and-shut murder trial was upended Friday when a judge decided to let Roeder […]