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Psalm 109: 8. It just gets worse and worse. Scared yet?

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The non-Establishment principle trumps student free speech. And I am puzzled, but I haven't read the briefs yet. I can't help but think that a valedictorian's message is not the school district speaking, and that, yet again, we don't really understand how to make the First Amendment *mean* rhetorically in the absence of lawyerly clause-bound readings:

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According to Pat Robertson, most Halloween candy has been "prayed over by witches." This was so over the top that CBN has removed the news item. Let me remind our readers that being a graduate from Robertson's Regent University law school was an excellent credential for employment in W's DOJ. Are they insane? Completely in a bubble? Lying for Jesus?

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Frank Schaeffer, son of Francis Schaeffer (arguably the intellectual godfather of the Christian Right) and convert to Eastern Orthodoxy discusses the religious sources of Obama hatred. Every year I've spent in Texas I have seen southern evangelicals become ever more insular and hateful. I am frankly scared.

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From Kirk Cameron's ministry, "how to shut up a Jew."

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Happy New Year. May you all be inscribed for a good year. And here's a moving story for the occasion. As the Texas Board of Education continues to debate whether our textbooks should talk about our "Christian nation," it helps to remember where such language leads us.

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Glenn Beck is one weird guy. A recovering alcoholic (on one wicked dry drunk, though, as people in AA would say) and convert to Mormonism, it turns out he is a follower of a fringe Mormon writer with a bent for conspiracy-mongering (you may remember having seen a book in school called The Naked Communist). Why is that with more information and evidence available than ever before our ideologies seem ever more resistant to reality-testing?

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Gregory Paul continues his research on the relationship between socioeconomic conditions and popular religiosity: "popular religion is usually a superficial and flexible psychological mechanism for coping with the high levels of stress and anxiety produced by sufficiently dysfunctional social and especially economic environments."

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