Religion
Muhammad vs. Muhammad: Myths and Realities About Islam's Founder
Robert Spencer | 27 January 2012
There are numerous reasons to question the historicity of the early Muslim accounts of Muhammad's life.
There are numerous reasons to question the historicity of the early Muslim accounts of Muhammad's life.
Santorum and the Mullahs Agree on the One Thing That Matters
Michael Hurd | 18 January 2012When Rick Santorum claims, as do many conservatives, that we are free only at God's discretion, they have done something the Founders of the United States never did. They have introduced religion into the equation.
Santorum for Ayatollah 2012
Michael Hurd | 12 January 2012A conservative like Santorum will claim to be against Big Government, but he's all in favor of it when it comes to shaping personal or family life in the way he wants to see it shaped.
Rivals for Your Life: Religious Conservatives vs. Islam
Edward Cline | 9 January 2012The Left allies itself with Islam because of shared totalitarian yearnings and ends. Religious conservatives, however, oppose Islam basically because it is a rival creed, a "competing faith."
Religious Conservatives vs. Islam
Edward Cline | 8 January 2012The Left allies itself with Islam because of shared totalitarian yearnings and ends. Religious conservatives, however, oppose Islam basically because it is a rival creed, a "competing faith."
Religion Does Not Lead to Liberty
Michael Hurd | 18 August 2011Exasperated people who favor liberty and individual rights, but who also favor separation of church and state, often say to me: "Why is this our choice? Why do we have the socialist Obama on the one side, and the religiously insane Michele Bachmann on the other? Why do capitalism and freedom go hand-in-hand with religious nuttiness?"
Islam's Viral Stasis
Edward Cline | 3 June 2011Islam fosters cultural, political, and economic stagnation because individualism is an anathema to it. An absence of freedom of speech inculcates minds that lack any measure of intellectual vigor in any realm of human action, whether in politics, science, or art.
Thomas Jefferson, The Establishment Clause and the Separation of Church and State
Sylvia Bokor | 18 May 2011From the beginning of our nation, Americans recognized the principle of separation of church and state as a safeguard against religious intolerance and protection of one's right to choose to believe, or not. A brief look at man's history underscores the need for such a separation.
Thank God For...
Michael Hurd | 10 May 2011Many people -- thank God for saving them from some calamity (such as a tornado, earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, flood, etc.), but they don't blame that same God for causing the disaster in the first place (and possibly killing hundreds or thousands of others, including animals and children).
The Moral Crime of the "Religious Right"
Derron Matthews | 22 February 2011The religious right insists that the American decay comes from abandoning the Christian principles of a "Christian country." Principles have been abandoned, but they were the principles of the Revolution.
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?

