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  • The Indispensable Founders0

    Those who disparage the principle of separation of church and state face an inconvenient reality: the religious freedom legacy of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. In 1947, at the cusp of a cold war that would pit “one nation under God” against “godless Communism,” the U.S. Supreme Court entered the fray over the relationship between

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  • The Ideal and the Real0

    Imagine this image: Jewish believers in Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (Hebrew for “Jesus Christ”) living in Israel. Though loyal Jews who love their nation and their Jewishness, they face persecution from religious zealots who, hating the belief in Jesus as the Messiah, try to make their lives miserable, especially when they seek to witness to other Jews

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  • The Idea of Freedom0

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  • ​The Hope of Peaceful Coexistence0

    There is strong empirical evidence in favor of a close connection between religious freedom and peace. That is amply demonstrated in an important book by Brian Grim and Roger Finke, The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century,1 and supplemented by subsequent research by the Pew Research Center.2 Based on

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  • The Hijacking of Religion0

    For a country to move from general tolerance to extreme intolerance in just a few short years speaks to the power of religion and its ready exploitation by those seeking political authority and control. The fuel is human competition. Where there is enough food, land, water, and other resources, the need to fight other communities

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  • The Hidden Danger of Conspiracy Theories0

    Is fluoride in the water a Communist plot? Was World War I a conspiracy of the Illuminati (or the Jews)? Is there a secret government plan to supplant the U.S. dollar with an &”Amero,&” a currency that includes Canada and Mexico? Was the attack on 9/11 a conspiracy by high officials in the U.S. government

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