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Is Religion a Hobby?0
- July/August 2014
- July 2, 2014
Two views of the role of religion in American public life clashed this spring in oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. On one side attorneys for the government argued that religious conviction is really a private, personal matter that should be kept at home, or within the confines of the church and its closely
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Slouching Toward Capernaum 0
- July/August 2014
- July 1, 2014
People with strong convictions of any kind often function best when believing themselves under siege. So long as it is believed that contemporary trends and prevailing forces are inflicting notable harm on one’s cherished values, justification for one’s persistence in proffering and practicing an alternative is easily found. This is even truer in the religious
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Fuel for Thought 0
- July/August 2014
- July 1, 2014
It’s a matter of presuppositions, really. For a theist, right makes might, which explains how America became great. But for an atheist it works the other way around: might makes right, and this is logical, natural, and even fitting, since it is nature’s method for ensuring survival of the fittest. Humans are just advanced animals.
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Respecting Existential Reality 0
- July/August 2014
- July 1, 2014
Prince Saud Al Faisal can be an imposing figure. The Saudi foreign minister is a large man with decades of experience dealing with Saudi Arabia’s place in the global universe. Much of that aura disappears, however, when the conversation begins. I was in Riyadh seated across from the prince, illuminating the nooks and crannies of
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