Tag: Politics

Does the Texas governor believe his idiotic religious rhetoric, or is he just pandering for votes?

(T)he Tea Party ranks lower than any of the 23 other groups we asked about — lower than both Republicans and Democrats. It is even less popular than much maligned groups like “atheists” and “Muslims.”

Atheists and agnostics have a lot to learn from gays about the essential role of coming out in any long-term battle for personal respect and political recognition in American society.

Using freedom of religion as an excuse, Republican lawmakers in New York state plan legislation to shield religious organizations from laws that prohibit discrimination against gays.

Several conservative presidential aspirants see David Barton as a source of historical and biblical justification for their policies.

Evangelical Christian groups are quietly organizing an effort to mobilize their followers for political voice.

Leading Republican warns that America might become dominated by secular atheism and radical Islamists.

I’ve never run for public office, but I know exactly what I would need to do to get the votes of people too ignorant to base their judgment on any real, substantial issues.

I’d just tell them that God told me to run for office. He spoke to me. In a dream. Really.

A new book by political observer Marci McDonald takes a look at rising Christian nationalism in Canada.

In an essay written in 1890, Ingersoll discusses the purposeful absence of God in the Constitution.

Richard Dawkins calls for atheists to come out of hiding and cease being timid about their convictions.  He highlights and rejects stereotypes associated with atheism, and notes that only when they organize, will they have a voice loud enough to hear.

Even though the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has lobbied the federal government in favor of universal health insurance for 30 years, a growing number of bishops are now opposing President Obama’s plan.

Why the GOP is falling out of love with gun-toting, churchgoing, working-class whites. The intellectual elite of conservative America is looking for a return to a more logical and intelligent basis on which to appeal to voters and set a future political agenda—a return to reason and a sustainable philosophy

This is a satirical piece which utilizes author Phil Zuckerman’s research found in his book “Society without God,” to demonstrate the superiority of irreligious democracies.  If your a fan of Stephen Colbert, you’ll like this editorial.

There are Democratic sex scandals to be sure, but Democrats didn’t build a franchise on holier-than-thou moral rectitude. The Republicans did. They used sexual morality as a weapon and now it’s shooting them in the foot.

It’s difficult to see the assimilation of science into Peter Mandelson’s new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as anything but bad news.

This wasn’t really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country—from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.

In his inaugural address on January 20, President Barack Obama said, to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward based on mutual interest and mutual respect. But, without further defining mutual respect, how can the President’s remark be anything but words or a vague and indefinite platitude?