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Faith, Power, Pluralism

Faith, Power, Pluralism

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Jesus Is Not a Republican By RANDALL BALMER Volume 52, Issue 42, Page B6 Nicely thought-out piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education – worth your time to read. A sampling to whet your appetite: Equally striking is the rhetoric that leaders of the religious right use to motivate their followers. In the course of traveling around the country, I have been impressed anew by the pervasiveness of the language of militarism among leaders of the religious right. Patrick Henry…

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Keep on, Al Gore

Keep on, Al Gore

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I just sent a message to Al Gore, who’s been attacked in his efforts to raise awareness on the issue of global warming. So far, right-wing talkers have compared him to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, and one even likened Gore’s pursuit of solutions to global warming to Adolf Hitler’s pursuit of genocide. Tell him thank you and that he should keep fighting here: http://www.democrats.org/keepfighting I wanted to take a minute to tell you thank you, and to keep fighting….

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