Courageous Muslims Should Be Supported
It is time to stop pretending that the "more violent and extreme elements" within Islam constitute a tiny minority and that this violent minority has nothing to do with the "real" Muslim religion.
Religion & Leadership Archives
November 29, 2006 12:45 PM
Comments (17)June 6, 2007 8:14 AM
Hail to Chief Executive, Not Chief Theologian
The frequent references to their personal faith as a rationale for public policy by all of the Democratic candidates this year is straight out of a playbook by political consultants who, for the past four years, have repeatedly told Democrats that they must make every effort to take back the pious religious high ground from Republicans.
December 13, 2007 2:05 PM
Religion No Panacea For Social Injustice
People who are living longer with AIDS and HIV today owe their continued existence not to religion or religious leaders but to scientists who have developed new drugs in laboratories over the past two decades. Religion has, historically, been used more frequently to foster resignation in the poor, sick, and oppressed--by promising them an eternal reward in the next world--than it has been used to change the conditions of their earthly lives.
