Word: religione
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...ever accused Hollywood of having guts. American movies have routinely made mock of priests and ministers, but in R-rated comedies and miniature indie dramas. Yet when the notion is raised of being faithful to a popular fantasy series that takes a caustic view of organized religion, the moguls become as cautious and pious as Republican presidential candidates...
...Gomes is afraid: he is afraid that the gospel of Jesus, the radical and “scandalous” good news he brought, has been lost in the rest of the Bible. The effort to reclaim the message constitutes the subject of the latest book by Gomes, a religion professor and the minister of Memorial Church. “It is no accident that although Jesus came preaching a disturbing and redistributive gospel, we do not preach what Jesus preached,” he writes. “Instead, we preach Jesus.”In his latest work...
...Rumors about Mormonism continue to swirl on the ground in states like Iowa and South Carolina; earlier this year, an eight-page document titled "Mormons in Contemporary American Society: A Politically Dangerous Religion?" that referred to the founder of the Latter Day Saints as a "gold-digger" and compared him to the Muslim prophet Muhammed was mailed to conservative activists in South Carolina...
...Romney, who has previously sought to highlight areas of agreement between his faith and evangelical Christianity. Now he is attempting to take it one step further, drawing a circle around religious conservatives that includes evangelicals and Mormons, and defining them as in common cause against what he termed "the religion of secularism...
...Romney campaign's decision to try and reframe the religion debate in the Republican Party was shrewd. And the candidate left no buzzword untouched, name-checking nativities in public squares, strict constructionist judges, and the phrase "Under God." All are much ballyhooed causes of religious conservatives, especially during the December season when charges of a "War on Christmas" fill cable airwaves, and they build on the foundation set by the series of "Justice Sunday" events that the Family Research Council and others have put on over the past three years...