The United States trumps Europe in the three preconditions of securing religious liberty for minorities.

Should it be a point of pride that America does religious tolerance better than Europe?

Read more: Churches, Temples, Mosques: The New Religious Intolerance

The Top Five Tricks of Religious Writers: the five tricks, tropes and memes that pervade religious news, religious media, and religious writing.

Do you think that the media presents the religion/politics/science position they want us to have, or are they just responding to what we want?

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While all aspects of the Prohibition War are tragic and absurd, here are six ways that the criminalization of marijuana defies all reason and logic.

Who do you think is working harder to keep weed illegal- big pharma or the drug cartels?

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The founding fathers saw the state as guarantor of freedom from persecution. Now, the Church is trying to cast it as persecutor.

What do you think is more important- freedom from religion, or freedom of religion?

Read more: How Corrupt Catholics and Evangelicals Abuse Religious Freedom

How do we know the Founding Fathers wanted to keep american government secular? Their own words and actions…

Was the United States founded as a Christian nation, meaning that the framers of the Constitution established a government whose laws would not only reflect but also enforce the rules of a particular brand of Christianity? No, period. The answer is as clear as Santorum’s pronunciation of Judeo is slurred, and the explanation can be found in the old (i.e., pre-1980) American practice of identifying oneself by denomination.

Read more: Godless Constitution: How Founding Fathers Wanted a Secular America

How do we know the Founding Fathers wanted to keep american government secular? Their own words and actions…

Was the United States founded as a Christian nation, meaning that the framers of the Constitution established a government whose laws would not only reflect but also enforce the rules of a particular brand of Christianity? No, period. The answer is as clear as Santorum’s pronunciation of Judeo is slurred, and the explanation can be found in the old (i.e., pre-1980) American practice of identifying oneself by denomination.

Read more: Godless Constitution: How Founding Fathers Wanted a Secular America

‘Libyan authorities on Tuesday passed legislation governing the formation of political organisations which rules out religious, regional and tribal platforms and bans foreign funding.’

Read more- Sharia Spring: Religion-based parties banned under new Libya law

‘Despite what many Americans believe, the majority does not rule when it comes to religion. Core freedoms depend on no vote.’

Read more- 5 Supreme Court Decisions Pandering to Christianity

‘This proscription against an official national religion and against government interference with individual speech is central to our democracy. But something peculiar has happened over the years when it comes to the public’s understanding of what the First Amendment means. Many people now think freedom of speech is either absolute or tantamount to freedom from repercussions.’

Read more: Freedom of Religion: What First Amendment is – and isn’t

‘Two young Tunisians have been sentenced to seven years in prison for posting cartoons of the naked prophet Mohammad on Facebook, in a case that has fueled allegations the country’s new Islamist leaders are gagging free speech.’

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