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  • ​An Anomaly in the Paradigm0

    An unfunny thing about political revolutions (the ones that succeed, anyway): those who “rage against the machine,” the revolutionaries, upon taking power eventually become the establishment, the powers-that-be, the “machine” (even if another model) that they once raged against. And with rare exceptions, the new machine becomes as dogmatic and intolerant of dissent as what

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  • An American Agenda0

    "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," wrote the famous New England poet Robert Frost. Certainly that is an apt description of the attitude many fundamentalist Christians have developed toward the "wall of separation" between church and state. Many Christian leaders and organizations have adopted the position that the concept of separation of church

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  • An Act of Faith0

    From earliest days I was taught to respect the Bible as God's holy Word. In particular that meant respecting the actual physical Bible. It was to be handled with reverence; never thrown away carelessly, and never stacked under lesser books. It was even suggested by some that I not mark up my Bible; but I

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  • Amish v. State0

    Illustrations by Tim Foley For more than 300 years the Amish, also referred to in this country as the Old Order Amish or "Plain People," have practiced a way of life that revolves around their deeply held religious beliefs. Believing in a literal interpretation of the Bible, these intensely private individuals point to Romans 12:2,

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  • Amish Child-Labor Exemption0

    Federal labor laws prohibit children under 16 from working in manufacturing, and children under 18 are restricted from working in other dangerous occupations. The Amish contend that these laws infringe upon their religious beliefs and traditional work ethic, and they

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  • American Exceptionalism Examined0

    If Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), the celebrated French author of Democracy in America, awakened in present-day America, he would likely be deeply shocked by the polarization, radicalism, and most of all the hostility between liberalism and religion. For what he found so exceptional during his visit to America in the 1830s was that, contrary to

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