The First Amendment to the Constitution reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." the phrase "respecting an establishment of religion" is the Establishment Clause and prohibits the government from establishing any religion as an official religion in America. Read broadly, it means the government cannot prefer, endorse, or promote any religion over any other, or even religion generally.

 

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The rationality and objectivity of our decision-making process is something that we should always hold open to question. Even those who are trained to make decisions in as neutral and fair of a manner as possible can be influenced to make unfair decisions. Some of those influences are obvious, like politics and ethnicity. Some are bizarre, like when you last ate! Read More...

Some Christians get really upset when confronted with the fact that they don't 'own' Christmas -- that Christmas is a holiday which has been secularized and which is enjoyed by non-Christians. What's more, the 'arguments' many try to offer in rebuttal to this reality can be quite sad. Read More...

It's often said that violence doesn't achieve anything, but if that's true why do so many people use violence in order to achieve various goals? To be more specific, it appears that even when violence is being employed senselessly, more often than not that those employing it are doing so because they think it is as justified means for achieving some specific goal: justice. If we understand why people engage in violence, we have a better chance of preventing it.

 

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