Category Archives: Religion

September 15, 2012

The Video Was Catalyst, Not Cause, of the Middle East Unrest

More blood has been spilled, American and other, in Benghazi, Cairo, Tunis and elsewhere in the so-called Arab and Muslim “worlds” in recent days. (I say so-called because, as others have pointed out, to speak off-handedly, especially to Americans, of … Continue reading

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May 24, 2012

Improbable Beliefs

It occurred to me recently that one somewhat glib way to define a religious believer is to say that he (or she) is a person who counts every other religion’s narrative as impossibly far-fetched, except his own. If one puts … Continue reading

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