Posted on February 9th, 2010 by armineh
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 4, President Barack Obama asserted that his administration has “turned the faith-based initiative around,” implying that his policies represent a sharp break from past practices.
That’s news to me. In fact, from where I’m sitting, the core of Obama’s faith-based initiative looks pretty much identical to the deeply [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2009 by armineh
Posted on March 15th, 2009 by armineh
Humanists and Atheists
Peter Bishop has the key. Al Dow quotes him as saying “Humanists talk about God less.” [Humanist Community Newsletter, March 2009].
Paul Beattie’s “The Prospect for Humanism” discusses the way the word “God” is employed. He observes “The Humanist does not use the word ‘God’ in describing his religious perspective.”
“Occasionally,” he says, “a Humanist [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by armineh
From the NY Times
March 1, 2009
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON — Terry Bradshaw stared intently into the camera, his eyes moist, as the interviewer asked him if his faith in God had helped him through his bouts with depression.
“Oh, yeah,” answered Mr. Bradshaw, the Hall of Fame quarterback. “Well, I’m a Christian for one thing so, yeah, [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by armineh
Obama clearly singled out the policy during a campaign speech last July, declaring that “if you get a federal grant, you can’t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can’t discriminate against them — or against the people you hire — on the basis of their religion.”
But once he [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by armineh
New York Times
January 27, 2009
Essay
Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy
By DENNIS OVERBYE
All right, I was weeping too.
To be honest, the restoration of science was the least of it, but when Barack Obama proclaimed during his Inaugural Address that he would “restore science to its rightful place,” you could feel a dark cloud lifting like a sigh from [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by armineh
Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent
The Guardian, Tuesday 27 January 2009
Article history
Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week’s Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: “They tell me to [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2009 by armineh
The Roman Catholic Church has blocked a plan to put atheist slogans on buses in Italy.
To read more…
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by armineh
Rob Boston comments on Barack Obama’s decision to ask Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the Inauguration, 2009. On MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”. December 17, 2008 - Click here.
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by armineh
Monday, January 12, 2009
Bush Initiative Was Focused On Politics, Not Policy, Charges Church-State Watchdog Group
Today’s White House report on President George W. Bush’s “faith-based” initiative seeks to mask the shortcomings of a badly failed policy, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
“The Bush initiative played crass politics with social service funding and jeopardized [...]
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