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Answering bogus charges against Christianity

Robert Meyer A recent vitriolic anti-Christian editorial brought out the usual boiler-plate responses from both sides of the ideological continuum. One respondent argued that people are entitled to believe whatever they want, but then in the next ...

From ROBERT MEYER, Renew America,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Fred Phelps,  Richard Dawkins

The fundamental disagreement between the religious right and religious left

Robert Meyer There has much conversation in recent years about both the religious right and religious left, as to why their views differ. Since both movements claim to be functionally Christian in their orientation, we need to examine why they often ...

From ROBERT MEYER, Renew America,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Tony Campolo,  Jim Wallis

Health insurance reform: socialism American-style

Robert Meyer One of the drawbacks of the current health care debate is that this issue is debated in terms of facts (which side is dishonest or misinformed about provisions of pending health care bills), rather than in reference to ideas (is universal ...

From ROBERT MEYER, Renew America,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Congress,  James B. A. Robertson,  Thomas Jefferson

Freedom from religion: deconstructing the First Amendment

Robert Meyer When my local newspaper published the an article related to the latest folly of the Madison Wisconsin based Freedom From Religion Foundation, under the heading "Anti-Religious group...," somebody finally got the characterization correct. ...

From ROBERT MEYER, Renew America,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: John Dillinger,  G. K. Chesterton

‘Global Warming: Religion or science?’

If we have seen it once, we have seen it a thousand times: somebody writes an editorial claiming that man-made global warming is a irrefutable scientific fact, and the rest of us who are stubbornly skeptical might as well be charter members of the flat ...

From ROBERT E. MEYER, NewsByUs,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Ben Stein,  NASA

Who Has the Best Chance of Catching the Cardinals in the NL Central?

The Cardinals are rising high, with Albert Pujols leading the way. Pujols leads the league in home runs, RBI, and slugging percentage. Despite Pujols doing so much, the Cardinals still only have a 2.5-game lead over the second-place Brewers. The Cubs ...

From ROBERT MEYER, Bleacher Report,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Albert Pujols,  Ryan Braun,  Yovani Gallardo,  Carlos Zambrano,  Ryan Dempster

"Originalism" is not conservative judicial activism

Robert Meyer Recent diatribes have appeared in the media criticizing and misrepresenting the rationale of those opposed to the Sotomayor nomination to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor has been lauded ad nauseam for her desire to be empathetic in her ...

From ROBERT MEYER, Renew America,  16 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Newt Gingrich,  Thomas Jefferson

My personal trial by fire

Robert Meyer Every now and then, some event in life occurs that changes your entire outlook on things. Such an event merits writing about despite the fact that it deviates from the usual political analysis in this column. The information shared or ...

From ROBERT MEYER, Renew America,  27 May 2009

‘The state establishment of atheism?’

Along with the “coming out” of militant atheism in recent years, there has been a growing perception that freedom of religion is tantamount to public freedom from religion and, such pursuit is a legitimate objective of The First Amendment. Such ...

From ROBERT E. MEYER, NewsByUs,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Joseph Story,  U.S. Congress,  Potter Stewart,  William Rehnquist

Criticism Of Warren Invitation Unwarranted

To the consternation and disappointment of many ardent Obama supporters, Rick Warren, the famous mega-church evangelical author, was asked to officiate at the presidential inauguration of President Barack Obama. Rick Warren has recently been maligned ...

From ROBERT E. MEYER, NewsByUs,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Rick Warren,  Barack Obama,  Jerry Falwell,  Gene Robinson,  Tony Campolo

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