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DENVER – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin describes herself as a “hard-core pro-lifer” and expresses confidence that in spite of disheartening polls, “putting this in God’s hands, that the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4.” In an interview with evangelical leader James Dobson that…

(UNDATED) “It took Jesus a thousand years to die. Images of his corpse did not appear in churches until the tenth century.” Those are the provocative opening sentences of the new book, “Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire” (Beacon Press), by Protestant scholars Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca…

Lori Lipman Brown has had her fill of God-talk. “It’s a very frustrating time,” said Brown, director of the Washington-based Secular Coalition for America, the first lobbying organization devoted to secular issues. “All of us have been very hopeful that at the end of the Bush administration, we would stop seeing theology impose itself on…

More than eight in 10 white Americans would vote for a racial minority for president, but fewer whites who take the Bible literally or who worship in an all-white congregation would do the same, according to a recent survey. Research from Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion found that 84 percent of non-Hispanic white…
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