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Bob Johnson: European Court of Human Rights Shows Religion Not Required for Morality The European Court of Human Rights last week ruled that the religious practice of slaughtering animals while they're fully conscious, as is required by Islam and Judaism, is a violation of morality. This helps to make the important point that religion is not necessary for people to be moral.
Hamza Toghoj: Do You Condemn Likud? This opinion piece discusses the Likud political party and its role in perpetuating the Israel-Palestine cycle of violence. I argue that the extremism of Likud's revisionist Zionism and Hamas's radical Islam are intertwined and that the two ideologies are similarly detrimental to any genuine peace effort in the region.
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Jay Janson: Einstein Cited Equally Horrific Terrorist Massacre of Arabs + USA Origen of Killing in Palestine Until the U.S. forced through United Nations plan for the partition of Palestine is recognized as having been intended to torch British ruled Palestine while British forces were withdrawing as a prearranged stratagem of an archetypal Colonial Powers crime against humanity, the same genocidal warfare and misery that was calculated and expected, will continue and spread 2 2 Comment Count
Dr. Lenore Daniels: When White Christian Nationalists Come Charging Again, Who Will Stand for Democracy? Another discussion the urgency needed to confront white Christian nationalism before another insurrection in a town near you. 1 1 Comment Count
Muhammad Khurshid: Separating Religion from Politics and War: A Path to Global Peace Let's strive for a world where unity, peace, and understanding prevail over division and conflict. Separating religion from politics and war is a crucial step towards a brighter future. 1 1 Comment Count
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Bob Johnson: Islamic Theocracy is Growing in Hamtramck, Michigan The "revealed" religions are slowly and gradually taking away our rights. In Michigan the city council and mayor of the town of Hamtramck are changing laws to put them more in line with Islam. 7 7 Comment Count
Dr. Lenore Daniels: Jesus to John Wayne and An Anti-Democratic Movement Sanctifying Violence A reading of Kristin K Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne. I'm arguing, as does contemporary socialist philosopher Martin Hägglund, that what is needed is a "deliberating" movement, in which the economic system is abolished. Capitalism and democracy, otherwise, are incompatible. 1 1 Comment Count
Dr. Lenore Daniels: White Nationalism in the US and the Triumph of Christianity This article discusses white nationalism and the rise of evangelical Christian violence. 1 1 Comment Count
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: American Muslims Condemn Church Burnings in Pakistan The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation's umbrella group of national, regional, and local Muslim associations, condemns the armed mob attacks on two Christian churches in Jaranwala, Pakistan, and Christian residents based on unverified accusations of Quran desecration.
Allen Finkelstein: H.stupidis Virus Revisited Last night I had a vision; at least I thought I did. I saw what we, in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim cultures, call "the host of heaven" in a huge uproar over the identification of the worst of all faults...
Allen Finkelstein: Arrogance and the Perfect Autocratic Storm Now, I suppose it's natural for many individuals raised in any given "faith" to feel that it is the "best" religious belief system. This we might call a form of natural "chauvinism" comparable to similar feelings about one's country. In ancient times, while a degree of religious chauvinism could be found in most cultures, there was still, undoubtedly, a grudging respect for other religions...
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Bob Johnson: The Futility of the Religious Left This article makes the point that there is no reason to cling on to the ancient "revealed" religions. It's time to evolve away from them. 2 2 Comment Count
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Thomas Knapp: Religious Freedom Isn't About Employment "Accommodations" There was never any question that Gerald Groff was free to exercise his religion as he chose. Yes, he had to choose between his religious beliefs and any number of jobs that weren't consistent with those beliefs. But we all have to make such choices, don't we? ... Unlike Groff, most of us don't go to court to get our religions unconstitutionally established in law as trump cards that employers must "accommodate."
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Bart Klein Ikink: Every Order Needs a Story Every social order needs a story, and to protect the social order, the elites use propaganda. Every story contains falsehoods, and so does the liberal story that underpins our current order. The alternatives are often worse. But the liberal story is falling apart, so we may need a new powerful story we can believe in. 1 1 Comment Count
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Bob Johnson: Religious Violence is Intensifying in Palestinian West Bank "Revealed" religion, in this case Judaism, is the cause of religious violence in the Palestinian West Bank. Judaism, through its alleged Word of God the Hebrew Bible, teaches that all of that land was given to the Jews for a Jewish state. 2 2 Comment Count
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BK Faunce: Reflections on America A commentary on America, divided into short sections, dealing with support for Israeli violence, Trump's indictment, Hunter's laptop and more. 1 1 Comment Count
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Bob Johnson: Piercing the Vail of Fear-based Religions The "revealed" religions all use fear to win and to keep converts. Belief in witches is a good example of this. The best way to counter the fear-based religions is with God-given innate reason. 5 5 Comment Count
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Bob Johnson: Putting Religion Over Reason Demands a Very High Price Whenever we turn our backs on our reason, we are opening ourselves and our loved ones up to danger and harm. The "revealed" religions require people to turn their backs on their innate God-given reason. This too often results in irreversible harm, as in the case of Lori Vallow Daybell and her children. 9 9 Comment Count
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BK Faunce: The Cross or the Sword Analysis of the dangers posed by the rise in christian nationalism in the US. 1 1 Comment Count
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Michael Chavers: Vote For A Democrat If You Want To Keep Our Republic It's either going to be Joe Biden or the twice-impeached criminal ex-president, or the book-banning, history white-washing, don't say gay guy, Ron DeSantis. 3 3 Comment Count
Muhammad Khurshid: Understanding the Roots of Division Between Christianity and Islam: A Complex Issue The relationship between Christianity and Islam has been a topic of discussion and debate for centuries. While both religions share some common beliefs, such as the belief in one God, there are also significant differences between the two that have led to conflicts and divisions.
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Bob Johnson: Most Christians Do Not Believe What is in Their Bible A claim that prayer cause a woman's amputated toes to grow back is a lie and can only be believed if you've given up your innate God-given reason for what the clergy call faith. Most Christians don't believe in "miracles" like this due to their lack of knowledge of what is in their own Christian Bible. 12 12 Comment Count
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Bob Johnson: Hypocrisy of Religious People Regarding Women The misogyny of all of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions needs to end. It won't end if people ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. Our innate God-given reason is the best tool to use to end it. 14 14 Comment Count
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Bob Johnson: Judaism: An Insurmountable Obstacle to Peace As Henry David Thoreau made clear, to solve a problem we must strike at its root. The root problem regarding peace between the Jewish state of Israel and Palestine is Judaism and its promotion of religious violence and Jewish superiority. 3 3 Comment Count
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Worldwide condemnation of Quran burning in Sweden The Muslim Islamic world condemns the burning of a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, by a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist, Rasmus Paludan, in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party, under the protection of police and with permission from the government, burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm.
Arshad M Khan: The Christmas Message and Its Savage Contrast A remembrance of Christmas and a look at its contrast with the war in Ukraine. 2 2 Comment Count
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Charles Hailey: Moderate Republicans DON'T Exist - Witness Domestic Terrorists in the People's House! Even the fringe of the fringe, represented by "Big Lie" promoter, Ginny Thomas, is falsely labeling the Republican fringe, represented by Keven McCarthy, as "moderates" just to make themselves, the fringe of the fringe, seem less extreme. 11 11 Comment Count
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Mark Lansvin: Afghan women are doomed under repressive Taliban One of the reasons the Taliban oppresses women is because they believe that women should be subordinate to men and that their primary role is to be mothers and homemakers. According to their interpretation of Islam, women should be covered in public, should not be allowed to work or go to school, and should not be allowed to participate in public life. This must change. 1 1 Comment Count
Arshad M Khan: The Contrasts in Our World of Rich and Poor The rich north and the poor south in contrasts on the eve of Christmas.
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Mapping anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe & North America NGOs and activists are warning of rising anti-Muslim hatred and islamophobia across EU member states, according to EURACTIV Media Network for Europe. EURACTIV has released a report about anti-Muslim sentiment in France and Germany, the two EU countries hosting the majority of European Muslims. The report looks at the measures the EU is preparing or has already put in place to tackle islamophobia.

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