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Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford
Mission to Moscow (Theocon Edition)
This is about a piece that comes from the Daily Beast, so a few caveats are in order, even if we ignore a headline (“Why American Social Conservatives Love Anti-Gay Putin”) that may not be the work of James Kirchick, … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, politics, Religion
Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, homosexuality, Pussy Riot, Religious Right, Russia, Russian Orthodoxy, Theocons, Vladimir Putin
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On The Unlearning of History
An atheist group is opposing the use of a Star of David in the design of a Holocaust memorial that is to be built on government property near the Ohio statehouse: …In the negative space between the two structures is … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State
Tagged atheism, FFRF, Fundamentalism, Ohio
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Trampled in Trebizond
Cross-posted on the Corner: The Economist reports: On July 5 the mufti of Trabzon gathered with other citizens for the first Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, not at a mosque but at an ancient Byzantine church. … Continue reading
Innocent Guilty
Yes, yes, there’s a back-story, and, yes, yes, a later version of the document did get the papal nod, but this snippet of history is too entertaining not to repeat. The Financial Times reports: It was, as these things go, … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, history
Tagged Innocent III, Magna Carta, Vatican
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Happy Independence Day
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia (1782): “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
Belly Dancing and Magic Spells
Florida.newszap.com reports: PAHOKEE—Pahokee residents, church members, and pastors are outraged over an upcoming event at the Lake Okeechobee Resort and Marina. The marina will be hosting its first Lake Okeechobee Summer Solstice Festival – a program that organizers hope will … Continue reading
Erdogan’s “Interest-rate Lobby” and Other Stories
Cross-posted on the Corner: So what have those scamps from Turkey’s “mildly Islamist” AK (the Economist) been talking about lately? Here (reported in Hurriyet) is President Abdullah Gül, an individual generally seen as more emollient than thuggish Prime Minister Erdogan: … Continue reading
Luke 6: 42
The Guardian (2008): The Roman Catholic Church is calling for the effective closure of secretive tax havens as a ‘necessary first step’ to restore the global economy to health. In a policy paper from the Holy See, Pope Benedict pins … Continue reading
Of Monks and Monetary Union
Cross-posted on the Corner: The New York Times ran this oddly revealing story a day or so back: [L]ate last year, the National Bank of Slovakia announced that the European Commission, the union’s executive arm, had ordered it to remove … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, culture
Tagged Church-state, EU, Euro, Slovakia
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