Archive for September, 2008

• September 30, 2008 Too Sacred for the Internal Revenue Service posted in reason tagged All Saints Church, candidates, churches, complaints, congregation, endorse, Internal Revenue Code, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, nonprofits, PACI, Political Activities Compliance Initiative, politics, preaching, pulpit, separation of church and state, sermon, substantiation, tax, tax-exempt, White House, written advisories
• September 29, 2008 Follow-up to Pulpit Freedom Sunday posted in reason tagged belief, candidates, Dallas Morning News, endorse, faith, Georgetown Blog, Insights, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Jacques Berlinerblau, law, Martin Marty, non-profit, politics, religion, tax-exempt, taxes, Wall Street Journal
• September 29, 2008 Should We Be Content to Believe and Obey? posted in reason tagged atheism, atheology, belief, Christianity, faith, hope, Islam, Judaism, justification, Michel Onfray, obedience, progress, quality of life, questioning, reason, religion, science, scientific method, Terry Eagleton
• September 27, 2008 Churches To Break Law, Endorse Political Candidates posted in reason tagged Alliance Defense Fund, atheism, atheist, candidates, conservative, endorse, endorsement, exempt, faith, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, ministers, Onfray, politics, protest, religion, religious expression, separation of church and state, tax, tax-exempt
• September 26, 2008 Choosing Wisely, Again posted in reason tagged anarchist, anti-semitism, assassination, atheism, atheist, Berkman, birth control, Charles Darwin, Christoper Hitchens, Czolgosz, disdain, Emma Goldman, faith, Frick, gay rights, H.L. Mencken, hatred, Jew, Jewish, Mckinley, murder, racism, religion, social commentary, The Portable Atheist, Thomas Paine
• September 25, 2008 Children As Expressions of Faith posted in reason tagged Abraham, agnosticism, atheism, belief, children, Christianity, End of faith, faith, Iran, Iraq, Isaac, Islam, Jephthah, Julia Sweeney, minefields, morality, morals, murder, politics, religion, Richard Dawkins, sacrifice, Sam Harris
• September 24, 2008 Can We Survive Our Religious Differences? posted in faith tagged action, belief, differences, End of faith, enemies, faith, inaction, Islam, Princess Diana, reconciliation, religion, righteousness, Sam Harris, scruples, survival, torture, transformation, war, weapons
• September 23, 2008 The Anger of Islam? posted in faith tagged anger, atrocities, Bush, christian, dangerous, destruction, End of faith, faith, George Bush, Islam, perception, President Bush, religion, Sam Harris, technology, truth, violence, weapons, worldview
• September 21, 2008 It Doesn’t Count posted in faith tagged blindness, Catholic, church, distrust, faith, free will, freedom, holy mass, inculcation, intelligence, mass, obligation, religion, strangle-hold, Sunday, surrender, thought
• September 19, 2008 Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Matrix posted in reason tagged civil, conservatives, discourse, emotions, evolution, flourishing, haidt, jonathan haidt, liberals, moral matrix, morals, partisans, political process, politics, pyschology, TED