My response to Fareed Zakaria’s piece in Newsweek is up over at Change the Story. (Formatting is being fixed).
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What would happen if religious ideas were subjected to such a debate? I want to conclude with some speculations. A robust, critical discussion of religious ideas might encourage popular faiths more consistent with modern standards of plausibility, more conscious of the historicity of all faiths, and more resistant to the manipulation of politicians belonging to any party. The long moratorium on sustained, public scrutiny of religious ideas has created a vacuum in which easy god-talk flourishes. Religion has no monopoly on foolishness and ignorance, but our convention of giving religious ideas a “pass” has made religion a privileged domain for wackiness…
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Chris Rock gets how to send a message. Vote for the guy with one house, he’s afraid of losing it. Obama
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Great resource, and I know they have plans for after the election. Islam in America, Islam in the US