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Day: September 10, 2010

Four New Yorkers on what it means to be Muslim

September 10, 2010 2 Comments

Four New York Muslims on the occasion of the anniversary of 9/11, and in honor of the end of Ramadan share their thoughts about piety, patriotism, the courage and goodness of New Yorkers, and the horrific event that has shaped a generation of American Muslim life.

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Primus of Scotland thinks aloud

September 10, 2010 3 Comments

David Chillingworth is Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He keeps the blog Thinking Aloud, which may make him the only blogging Primate of the Anglican Communion.

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Opposing the “cultured despisers of religion”

September 10, 2010 11 Comments

The point of the report seemed pretty clear to me: it attempted to demonstrate that human religion began as simple—and simplistic—means of social control. The unspoken but seemly logical conclusion was that since humanity had moved past the need for such primitive controls, it was time for us to move beyond religion as well.

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Mutuality and dependence

September 10, 2010 No Comments

The application of this truth to the interests and destiny of the colored race of America is manifest. We are living in this country, a part of its population, and yet, in divers respects, we are as foreign to its inhabitants as though we were living in the Sandwich Islands. It is this our natural separation from the real life of the nation, which constitutes us “a nation within a nation”:

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