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Tag: Religion

Reports: Contraception and the Cost of Culture Wars

Cartoons: Flock This Way

Reports: America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out

Ear to the Ground: Boehner Goes on the Attack Against Contraception Policy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets Ready to Defend Birth Control Policy

Ear to the Ground: Catholic Churches Bring Birth Control Debate Into Sunday Services

Reports: Obama Owes More on Religious Freedom

Reports: California and the Rapture-Ready Candidacy of Newt Gingrich

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Raising Cane Against the ‘Morality Police’

Ear to the Ground: SCOTUS Says Religious Groups’ Job Choices Are Theirs to Make

Arts and Culture: God Is Dead

Reports: James Cone’s Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised

A/V Booth: Not So Fast, Mitt

Truthdig Podcast: Not So Fast, Mitt

Reports: America’s 5 Political Parties

Arts and Culture: Norman Lear Is a ‘Born Again American’

Cartoons: Tebow’s Prayers

Reports: Fewer and Fewer Reasons for the West to Fixate on the Mideast

Ear to the Ground: Israelis Clash in a Struggle of Orthodoxy

Reports: ’Tis The Season of Fake Outrage

Arts and Culture: God of the Oppressed

Arts and Culture: The Story of the ‘Iranian Schindler’

A/V Booth: Hedges on Hitchens

Cartoons: Tebow Time

Reports: War With Iran? School Prayer? Just More Republican Campaign Promises

Reports: Government-Sponsored Sinner

Reports: Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

Reports: The GOP’s Rational Reality Show

Reports: Jesus and the 99 Percent

Arts and Culture: When Jewish Upon a Star

Reports: The Fog in Our Future

Cartoons: Attack of the Amish

Ear to the Ground: Amish Hair-Cutting Posse Busted in Ohio

Cartoons: Handoff

Ear to the Ground: Egyptian Pyramid Closes Over Woo-Woo Ritual Rumors

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Feast of Sacrifice

Reports: The Politics of the Heavenly and Unheavenly

Reports: The Vatican Meets the Occupiers

Truthdig Podcast: The Spiritual Side of Occupy Wall Street

A/V Booth: The Spiritual Side of Occupy Wall Street

Reports: What Romney’s Religion Reveals About His Politics

Reports: Getting Romney’s Religion

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Egypt’s Black Sunday

Ear to the Ground: Bloody Sunday Shakes an Egypt in Transition

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Reports: A Come-to-Jesus Moment for American Religion

A/V Booth: Bachmann Blames Deadly Natural Disasters on God’s Wrath

Arts and Culture: A Graham Greene Classic Better Left Alone

Reports: Prosecuting War Crimes? Be Sure to Read the Fine Print

Reports: Race and the Church of Denialism

A/V Booth: Jim Hightower and Rick Perry’s Army of God

Arts and Culture: Worms and Fishes

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Ramadan, Revolution and Rumors

A/V Booth: The Obama Administration’s Changing Attitude on Medicinal Marijuana

Truthdig Podcast: The Obama Administration’s New Crackdown on Medicinal Marijuana

Reports: Norway Attacks and Europe’s Failed Immigration Policies

Reports: Sam Harris Responds to Chris Hedges’ ‘Fundamentalism Kills’ Column

Reports: Fundamentalism Kills

Reports: The Influence Industry of Rage

Reports: GOP Candidate Cain Gets Away With Bigotry

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Reports: Extremely Unctuous

Arts and Culture: Masturbation: The Typing Requirement

Ear to the Ground: Indonesia Frees ‘Playboy’ Editor

Truthdig Podcast: The Body Baggers of Iraq

A/V Booth: The Body Baggers of Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Another Failed War

Cartoons: Forgiveness

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: The New Corporate World Order; Religion in American Politics

Cartoons: Jesus Saves

Reports: The Sleeping Giants of Tiny Bahrain

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Predict the End of Religion in These 9 Countries

Reports: The Revenge of God

Reports: The Hooey King

Cartoons: Peter King Hearings

Reports: The American Inquisition of 2011

Reports: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

Cartoons: Adam

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: The Prophet’s Birthday

Reports: The Leadership Vacuum

Reports: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Cartoons: Showoff

Reports: Self-Obsessed Washington’s Confused Response to Egypt

A/V Booth: What Obama Prays For

Reports: Countering the Usurpers

Reports: The Lives of Dictators

Ear to the Ground: Your Guide to Papal Beatification

Reports: Blizzard a Case of God-Blocking, Robertson Says

Cartoons: Mary Quite Contrary

Cartoons: No Angel

Ear to the Ground: Trendy French Straights Have Co-Opted Civil Unions

Reports: The Pope’s Progress

Cartoons: Pope Knows Condoms

Reports: Saying Goodbye to Compassionate Conservatism

Reports: The Cowardice of America at War

Reports: Why the Rest of Europe Isn’t Happy With France and Germany

Reports: Race and the Tea Party’s Ire

Reports: Beyond Kingmaker: Moqtada al-Sadr and the Future of Iraq

Reports: Too Much Fox-Flavored Kool-Aid for Juan Williams

Reports: Thugs on the Right

A/V Booth: Christine O’Donnell’s Staggering Ignorance

A/V Booth: ThreatDown: Muslim Edition

Ear to the Ground: Open Call: Obama’s Town Hall

Cartoons: Sins of the Father

Cartoons: Trick, Treat or Talking Points

Ear to the Ground: Poll Finds Overlap Between Tea Party, Christian Right

Ear to the Ground: Obama Reaffirms His Christianity

Ear to the Ground: Atheists Know More About Religion Than the Pious

Reports: The Ironies of Bishop Long

Reports: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens

Arts and Culture: Discovering Muslims and Christians of All Kinds

Cartoons: This Much

Reports: Wisdom of the Terrorist’s Son

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on Tensions Between the West and the Muslim World

Ear to the Ground: Fashion Police: France Votes to Ban the Burqa

Ear to the Ground: Preacher Cancels Quran Burning Over ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Claims

Reports: Getting to Know Our Celebrity President

Cartoons: Fanatics

Ear to the Ground: Florida Church Determined to Burn Qurans Despite Warnings

Ear to the Ground: Bollywood Jesus

Ear to the Ground: Vatican May Seek to Prevent a Stoning in Iran

Ear to the Ground: Stephen Hawking Says Creation Was Godless, Inevitable

A/V Booth: Utah Sen. Hatch Speaks Up for Manhattan ‘Mosque’

Ear to the Ground: A Handbook for Killing Non-Jews

Reports: Church Picnic With a Buzz

Cartoons: Fanaticism Infringement

Reports: The Speech Glenn Beck Meant to Give

Cartoons: An I for an I

Ear to the Ground: Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Causing Harm, Consternation

Reports: Fox and Friends Trying to Bully and Buy Their Way Back to Power

Ear to the Ground: Ron Paul Condemns ‘Hate and Islamaphobia’

A/V Booth: Mosque Mania Hits New York (Update)

Cartoons: Why I Am Not a Muslim

Cartoons: DesperateShirts.com

Arts and Culture: Norman Podhoretz in Black and White

Ear to the Ground: Howard Dean Sounds Like a Conservative Blogger (Update: Dean Responds)

Cartoons: GOPanic

Reports: Mosque-Issippi Burning

Ear to the Ground: Harry Reid Opposes ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

Reports: Jefferson Would be Ashamed of Republican Mosque Panderers

Ear to the Ground: Obama Defends Ground Zero Mosque Plans

Reports: Democratic Values, Islam and the Judeo-Christian Tradition Fallacy

Reports: Germany’s Good Fortune Tips the Scales Against Its Neighbors

A/V Booth: ‘Dying’ Hitchens Talks Mortality, Religion

Cartoons: What Would Sleestak Do?

Cartoons: An Apple a Day

Reports: Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich Need a History Lesson

A/V Booth: Bloomberg Defends ‘Freedom to Worship as We Wish’ in NYC

Ear to the Ground: Fundamentalists and Extremists Go to the Rescue in Pakistan

Arts and Culture: The Day the Music Died—in Iran

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges Testifies About the Lies and Losses of War

Ear to the Ground: Battle Over Ground Zero Intensifies

Arts and Culture: All the Rest Is Commentary

Cartoons: The Prophet Palin

Arts and Culture: Man Who Made ‘South Park’ Threat Arrested

Ear to the Ground: Big Oil’s War on Earth

Ear to the Ground: Vatican Issues New Rules for Tackling Sex Abuse Cases

Arts and Culture: Russia Fines Art Mongers for Provoking Church

Ear to the Ground: Glenn Beck University

Ear to the Ground: Noam Chomsky on Iran

Cartoons: The HolyFather

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan to Watch Web for Blasphemous Content

Reports: Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening

Ear to the Ground: Brown v. the Board of WTF

Cartoons: Half Fool Half Empathy

Cartoons: Death of a Salesman

Ear to the Ground: Palin’s Payday, Flotilla Folly and Priest-Love, All in One

Reports: Family Values and Glass Houses

Arts and Culture: Anthony Kenny on ‘Atheist Delusions’

Ear to the Ground: First Female Priest to Raise Italian Eyebrows, Blood Pressure

Ear to the Ground: Worst Popes Edition

Ear to the Ground: How Rude: France Condemns the Veil

Ear to the Ground: Lingua Franca Edition

Cartoons: If I Had a Hammer

Reports: After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck With Nietzsche

Ear to the Ground: Boca Edition (Update: Now With More Rent Boy)

Ear to the Ground: Hava Nagila Edition

Ear to the Ground: ‘Fake’ Bob Dylan Edition

Cartoons: What Would Benedict Do?

A/V Booth: Sam Harris: ‘The Separation Between Science and Human Values Is an Illusion’

Cartoons: Better Dead Than Red

Cartoons: The Flock

Reports: There Are Crazies on One Side

Reports: Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?

Cartoons: Daddy Dearest

Reports: How the Pope Can End the Scandal

Reports: The Crisis of Catholicism

Cartoons: Vow of Silence [A Cartoon From Austria]

Reports: On Health Care, Listen to the Nuns

Reports: The Truth About American and Israeli Interests Comes Out

Reports: NYC’s Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser

Ear to the Ground: Beck’s Jeebus Boo-Boo

Reports: Calling All Rebels

Reports: The Fat Line Between Free Speech and Defamation

Ear to the Ground: Danish Paper Apologizes for Cartoon

Cartoons: Bible Study [A Cartoon From Germany]

Ear to the Ground: Scientologists Hire Journalists to Investigate Journalists

Ear to the Ground: Haiti Frees Most of the Jailed Missionaries

Reports: Kidnapping Is Not Charity

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