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A Catholic Legacy Even before 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella vanquished Granada, the last stronghold of Muslim rule on the Iberian peninsula, the Roman Catholic Church set a rigorous religious tone for Spain. For centuries, the Catholic faith - and the patriarchal family structure that it inspired - was the...
Allowing people to practice their religion is also entirely consistent with secularism—the ideological basis of modern Turkey. Secularism has its roots in the Enlightenment tradition of tolerance and the idea that religion is a choice subject only to individual sovereignty. Using force to prevent religious observance is...
My odyssey with Christianity began last summer at Wal-Mart, when I saw a teen New Testament amongst the romance novels and bargain blenders. Since I’m Jewish, I’d never gotten to read the Holy Bible and was quite curious. Sadly, it lacked a barcode...
These days, it seems that many Washington insiders are confused about the controversial interrogation tactic known as waterboarding. During his Senate confirmation hearings, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey was unwilling to take a stance on the procedure since he didn’t “know what?...
Then my friend made the mistake—a cardinal sin really—of revealing a dispassionate aesthetic appreciation for the game of baseball, complimenting a Colorado Rockies’ hitter with a pretty innocuous observation: “Good eye, there.” Of course, this elicited...