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...basic truth is that America, like Iraq, is a religious country. The fact that Americans haven’t been killing each other over religion doesn’t negate that fact. Every American president has been Christian—some arguably less than others. The Supreme Court and Congress open every session with a prayer. Oaths from the Pledge of Allegiance to the presidential oath of office include phrases such as “under God” and “so help me God.” Presidential candidates and legislators of all stripes try to make...
...CIA’s estimation of 78 percent. However despite weighty numbers, a 2006 Pew poll shows only a relatively paltry 40 percent attend religious services on a weekly basis. Most Americans want their president to believe in God but few want governance based upon Holy Scripture. Americans like religion on their own terms. This isn’t that surprising. After all, the original American colonies were founded by religious zealots who didn’t like governments telling them what to believe. For better or worse, this has never quite left our cultural...
...what will America's top guerrilla docu-comic do after Sicko? "I think it's time for a romantic comedy," he told TIME. But surely there are other bones of contention sticking in his throat. The political use of religion should appeal to this leftie who's still a practicing Catholic. Or how about the threat of climate change and the waters rising over Moore's Manhattan home. What if he were to blend the two issues? He could take as his text this quote from God, straight from the Bible: "I establish my covenant with you, that never again...
While India's image makers may want the world to believe that business is the country's new religion, for many here there are older faiths - and faith-driven feuds - that matter more. At least five people were killed Friday in the southern city of Hyderabad, when a bomb exploded in a mosque crowded with worshipers attending Friday prayers. Police say they found and defused two other bombs close by. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack...
...Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who happened to be opening a conference on interfaith harmony Friday, said that there is no place for religious intolerance in India. "Any political formation trying to incite people in the name of religion, whatever religion, is in fact betraying both religion and our constitution," the Prime Minister said. All nations, "big and small will have to come to terms with their growing internal diversity. No modern and open society can be a monolith...