Church-state disputes as human dramas
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"God on Trial: Dispatches From America's Religious Battlefields" (Viking, 362 pages, $26.95) &#151; Peter Irons: Combining legal analysis with good storytelling, a lawyer-professor explores church-state disputes.
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A look at the religion's theological roots and how the faith took hold in the region.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- When university professor Khalid al-Dakhil was growing up, clergymen had a say in everything.
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Benedict XVI has been wary of inter-faith dialogue. But now he's making a show of ecumenical unity
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Squabbling over who served tainted what to whom masks deeper rifts.
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Political rivalries, ethnic strife and poverty have fueled the clashes, but that has not stopped combatants from invoking religion and challenging the devotion of their rivals.
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Child labor. Forced abortions. Religious persecution. Jailed dissidents. Cultural cleansing in Tibet and ethnic cleansing in Africa.
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Â· Catholic leader demands NHS block on terminationsÂ· Communion challenge to pro-choice politicians
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A VALLETTA, Malta, DEC. 2, 2004 .- This island nation's Catholic bishops are protesting against the pressures exerted by a U.N. Commission on Malta to legalize abortion in certain circumstances.
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Leaders consider compromise to prevent global rupture in Anglican communion.
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La polemica:                                          La bandiera della laicitÃ                                                                                    MICHELE SERRA
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: I'm an atheist but still I resent this joker in Rome slighting my community. A residual theological chauvinism is aroused.
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The ongoing sexual-abuse crisis. Dioceses declaring bankruptcy. What to do with Catholic politicians who don&#39;t hold to church teachings.
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The US church now awaits response from traditionalists. Will schism be headed off?
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If as some have suggested religions are viruses of the mind, then it might make sense to separate the components of any given religion into two parts. The first part being those things which are necessary to maintain viral infection and which assist in the infection of new hosts. The second part is the payload: Those instructions which the virus writer wishes those who have been infected to carry out or execute.     My hope is that this method of analysis will assist others in understanding the structure of existing religions as well as those who aim to write one from scratch
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I've heard thousands of sermons over the years, and a ton of them were about sex and money (or substitute: lust and greed). It's as if the two issues are synonymous, and in a way, they are.
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How both sides of the debate reach for Biblical authority to back their positions