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  • The Establishment Clause Assault0

    The Bell and McCord children were verbally assaulted at the school, not just by students, but by the faculty as well. Upside-down crosses were taped to their schoolbooks and lockers. The McCords' family pet, a prizewinning goat, had its throat slit. The parents were "publicly vilified" at a school board meeting. Both families received anonymous

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  • The Enigma of Liberty0

    A few months later, on October 25, 1990, Russia passed its first law guaranteeing the freedom of religion. Its aim was to protect the rights of people of all faiths, not to regulate religious life. The law forbade the establishment of

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  • The Emergence of Toleration0

    Editors' note: This is the fourth in a series of five articles on the history of Christian persecution up to the end of the seventeenth century. The first, second, and third articles can be found here and here and here. The millennium-old Christian consensus that religious diversity was an evil that ought to be crushed

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  • The Effect of Prophecy on American Politics… The End of Time?0

    The title antiChrist has been applied by some to various emperors and popes of the Middle Ages, Napoleon III of France, Hitler, Mussolini, Apollo astronauts, and even to former president Reagan. Armageddon has been associated with World Wars I and II as well as the long-feared World War III. The biblical concept of "Babylon the

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  • The Divided States of America?0

    Richard Land's The Divided States of America? (published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007) has as its subtitle: What Liberals AND Conservatives Are Missing in the God-and-Country Shouting Match! It is a thought-provoking book that analyzes both groups of shouters. Albeit he does seem to come down a little harder on the secular

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  • The Dinosaur of Fundamentalism0

    A few days ago I went with my two children on a school outing to the Science Museum at the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Kids love science—or at least the apparent mystery that goes along with the topic. For example, the spinning wheel with black dashes on a white face that appears to be two other

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