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...assures the Dresden crowd. "We're just telling you in plain and simple language what we're going to do." As she finishes, the strains of the Rolling Stones' 1973 hit Angie fill the air. The song has become Merkel's theme tune in a campaign that has her Christian Democratic Union (cdu) and its Bavarian sister party, the csu, 14 points ahead of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his Social Democratic Party (spdYet the polls also show two other trends: a surprisingly large number of Germans say they don't know who they will vote for on Sept...
...consider myself a fairly devout Catholic, yet I cannot help reacting critically to the extreme religious conservatives trying to push intelligent design as science. Every priest and religion teacher I have ever spoken to has vigorously confirmed that according to Christian beliefs, evolution and intelligent design are wholly compatible. Even my school--a Catholic one--teaches evolution in all its science courses. I generally take a conservative view of politics and social issues, but that movement clearly goes...
...long ago as 1997, he wasn't particularly optimistic: Islam features "a very marked subordination of woman to man," he says in his interview book Salt of the Earth. Islam "simply does not have the separation of the political and religious sphere that Christianity has had from the beginning." Just a few months before being elected Pope, he spoke out against predominantly-Muslim Turkey's candidacy to join the European Union, insisting that Europe is defined by Christian values. His views of religious fundamentalism, regardless of the faith, are also worthy of note. Faith "was intended precisely for the simple...
...These subjects are controversial enough that I do expect, and have already received, some knee-jerk reactions: on the right, saying that this [is a way of saying] that the origins of this nation aren't Christian, or some kind of politically correct glorifying of savages; and on the left, saying that I am trashing them by saying they are violent, and not perfect stewards of nature. In fact, Indians were human beings, just like anybody else. Like anybody else, they did some absolutely amazing stuff, and some stuff that makes you roll your eyes...
...given that Angela Merkel would boot the Social Democrats out of office. But now, with the campaign in full swing, it's beginning to look as though her only option will be to form a cumbersome grand coalition with her political opponents. For now, Merkel's Christian Democrats (cdu) are still ahead of Schröder's Social Democrats - by 13 points in the Election Research Group's latest weekly poll for zdf television. But missteps by the cdu and its sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union, are making it unlikely that, if elected, Merkel will be able...