Hedges Vs. Hitchens
Chris Hedges & VideoNation : Conservatives & The American Right
The so-called "new atheists" may be as extreme as Christian fundamentalists, if not more.
2008
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Missing: The 'Right' Babies
Kathryn Joyce : Europe
Christian-right activists look at falling birthrates among whites and rising Muslim immigration in Europe and warn of a looming "demographic winter."
2007
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The Swift-boating of Mitt Romney
Max Blumenthal : Conservatives & The American Right
Christian conservatives play the porn card in an attempt to discredit Mitt Romney and advance the cause of Fred Thompson.
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The Abstinence Gluttons
Michael Reynolds : Conservatives & The American Right
Meet the religious conservatives at the faith-based feeding trough who are getting rich controlling sex education in America.
2006
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'Arrows for the War'
Kathryn Joyce : Conservatives & The American Right
The Christian "Quiverfull" movement measures a mother's spiritual resolve by the number of children she raises, each one an arrow in the quiver of God's army.
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With the Party of Dobson
At the unofficial GOP midterm convention, Focus on the Family delivered election-day marching orders to the faithful, praising GOP hopefuls and hurling jeremiads against liberals, "faggots" and Fallujans.
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Bush and the Ten Commandments
Brooke Allen & Patrick Doyle : Religion
No President in living memory is as overtly religious as George W. Bush. But just how well have the President and his henchmen kept the commandments?
2005
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Darwin on Trial
Eyal Press : Education Policy & Reform
As the site of a trial on including intelligent design in biology textbooks, Dover, Pennsylvania, is a focal point of a national debate on science and religion. But a look at the town and its residents show that the battle may not be so clearly defined.
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Darwin and God
Dr. Marc Siegel : Science
Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a literal reading of the Bible.
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Left Behind: Bush's Holy War on Nature
Americans care about the environment, but the Bush Administration clearly doesn't. Blame it on Republican ideology and the apocalyptic religious sensibilities of his political base.
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Intelligible Design
Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true.
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Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash
Max Blumenthal : Conservatives & The American Right
Pat Robertson's shadowy relief organization, Operation Blessing, is prominently featured on FEMA's list of charities to receive donations for hurricane relief.
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In Defense of Pat Robertson
The wacky televangelist may have done us a favor by bringing the insanity of Bush Administration tactics into plain view.
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Rick Warren, 'America's Pastor'
His bestselling The Purpose-Driven Life has made him a superstar, but is mega-pastor Rick Warren's true purpose strictly political?
2004
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The Bush Crusade
Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
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Neocon Man
Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against an academy overrun by political extremists. But he is nothing if not extreme himself.
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In Praise of Secularism
Susan Jacoby : Separation of Church & State
To arms, freethinkers! Religious zealots have hijacked your government!
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