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This isn’t the only example of the religious right’s impact on faith-based initiatives; in 2004, conservative Christian psychologist James Dobson put pressure on United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, to sack global health director Anne Peterson over her marginal support of condom usage, according to a Boston Globe investigative report last month. Dobson, known for heartily endorsing the corporal punishment of children and for once declaring, “homosexuality…will destroy the Earth,” is only one of several evangelicals who have forced the government?...
...neutrality,” an essential safeguard against the sort of theocratic repression the government condemns in the Middle East. Except that didn’t work out, either: David Kuo cites one OFBCI grant analyst who admitted, “When I saw one of those non-Christian groups on the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero...
...wasn’t surprising that students sat up and took note when posters advertising an event entitled “How to be a Great Lover” began showing up all over campus. Most intriguing of all? It was to be sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship...
...Christian? Are you a Muslim? Or perhaps you’re a Buddhist. Did you willingly decide to believe in a certain God or were you simply brought up that way? If your answer is the latter, your parents are in deep trouble—at least according to the famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins...
...author then quotes Thomas Jefferson, “The Christian God is a being of terrific character—cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust...