Schlagwort-Archive: USA

Why are American politicians more pious than their constituents?

Date: 10‑02‑2021 Source: The Economist As Americans ditch the church, Congress still fills the pews   AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION is explicit: “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office.” Yet Americans expect piety from their politicians. … Weiterlesen

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The mark of Cain

Date: 10‑07‑2020 Source: The Economist Lexington A Christian pollster argues that a reckoning is due in America’s churches Few things about Donald Trump’s rise are harder to explain than the fact that some of the most religious Americans were behind … Weiterlesen

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Thank God, American Churches Are Dying

Date: 21‑02‑2020 Source: The Wall Street Journal By Ericka Andersen As thousands close across the U.S., lively new congregations are taking their place. As thousands of churches close across the U.S., many fret about the inevitable decline of faith in … Weiterlesen

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America’s Sacred Politics

Jan 9, 2020 Ian Buruma, Project Syndicate Ian Buruma is the author of numerous books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Year Zero: A History of 1945, and, most recently,  A Tokyo Romance: A … Weiterlesen

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Evangelicals Take On Artificial Intelligence

Date: 10-05-2019 Source: The Wall Street Journal By S. Joshua Swamidass As the technology advances, science and religion should each give the other its due. Science fiction often depicts artificial intelligence as technical minds embodied in humanlike bodies. Think Commander … Weiterlesen

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The Trump era has exposed divisions among Catholics and evangelicals

Date: 31-03-2019 Source: The Economist: Erasmus But in a secular age, Christian groups find common cause VERY NEARLY a quarter of a century has passed since a sort of joint manifesto was published by some of America’s most prominent Roman … Weiterlesen

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Francis on the ropes

   Date: 08-11-2018 Source: The Economist Clerical sexual-abuse scandals strengthen the pope’s conservative critics Launched in optimism, Francis’s papacy is bogged down in infighting and scandals As an fbi agent for 29 years, Philip Scala led the operation that jailed … Weiterlesen

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Revelations: The political beliefs of evangelical Christians

Einer Sache bin ich mir sicher: mit solchen „Mitchristen“ will ich nichts zu tun haben! (hfk)    Date: 29-06-2017 Source: The Economist Personal morality in politics is negotiable TEN MINUTES BEFORE the Sunday morning service begins at the Free Chapel in … Weiterlesen

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Unappetitlich!

Date: 14-02-2017 Source: The New York Times Subject: For Religious Conservatives, Success and Access at the Trump White House Over the last year, Trump and the Christian right have strengthened a mutually beneficial arrangement that is already nudging government in a … Weiterlesen

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Religious Right Reinvigorated by Donald Trump

Date: 11-12-2016 Source: The Wall Street Journal Encouraged by Trump’s cabinet picks, conservative Christians want many of Obama’s social policies reversed Donald Trump’s election has reinvigorated evangelical Christians. Above, Mr. Trump with Jerry Falwell Jr. in January 2016. CHARLESTON, S.C.—After … Weiterlesen

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