We seem happiest practicing our religion in the bright, confident key of C Major (“Joyful, joyful!”) while belittling anything that doesn’t sound quite so chipper.
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Author: Chris Walton
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‘What if the Koran isn’t perfect?’
“As a Canadian Muslim, Irshad Manji never eats pork, never drinks alcohol and regularly reads the Koran. Otherwise she is Osama bin Laden’s worst nightmare.”
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Schwarzenegger for enlightened despot?
“I feel if you want to create a strong nation and a strong country you cannot let everybody be an individual, because everybody has his own opinions.”
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Losing my religion.
“Every 20 or 30 years or so, a large portion of every UU congregation seems to look around and say, ‘Where has my church gone?’”
The other “World” magazine puts the fun back in fundamentalism.
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UUA Moderator resigns.
Diane Olson steps down; a replacement will be elected at the General Assembly in Long Beach.
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Sport as ritual.
“Vicariously, we have risked, we have dared, we have struggled, we have won and lost.”
“I may find that I have been mistaken but for now, if she means to replay the fight between Ballou and Channing, I’m rooting for Channing.”
“Beneath this cool tolerant exterior beats the heart of an old reactionary and pulpit-pounder.”
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Wilsongate digest.
Follow all the news about the CIA agent scandal.