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Religion Dispatches
The Satanic Temple, best known for its offer to build a monument to Satan in an attempt to challenge the Constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma, recently filed a Freedom of…
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Religion Dispatches
Tens of millions of people saw a now-familiar name in their newspaper Friday morning, attached to a now-familiar message: America should be a Christian nation. Every Easter and Fourth of July since…
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Religion Dispatches
Apart from whether or not we like the Hobby Lobby decision, there seems to be some confusion about the ruling evidenced by the fact that people keep asking “What about Blood transfusions in companies…
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Religion Dispatches
While sanctimonious conservatives and godless liberals alike await the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, two more suits with serious church and state implications are quietly making…
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Religion Dispatches
Seemingly to prove the thesis of God’s Not Dead—i.e., that colleges and universities are bastions of secular liberalism, staffed by arrogant professors bent on destroying the faith of their students…
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Religion Dispatches
Arguments in the Supreme Court’s first public prayer case in 30 years are more complicated than they at first appear to be.
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Religion Dispatches
Will the challenge to build “an homage to the historic/literary Satan” at Oklahoma’s capital actually change anything?
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Religion Dispatches
A new book by a Constitutional scholar argues that the founding document does not protect religion—it protects religious freedom.
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Religion Dispatches
In response to churches that refuse to quit electioneering Church-State watchdogs are demanding action… but what if there were a way for churches to constitutionally endorse candidates and do all the electioneering they like? Well, here it is…
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