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Who’s the Enemy?  The Catholic Church.  Chicago Cardinal Francis George is unhappy that the gay pride parade will pass a local parish on the final Sunday in June–and that the Catholic leadership was not consulted about the new parade route.  Today on Fox Chicago News the Cardinal compared gay “rhetoric” to that of the Klu Klux Klan. (h/t Anthea Butler)

Plea Inbred.  If you haven’t yet read Matthew Shaer’s latest for New York magazine, go do so now.  He covers the Borough Park murder case of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky by a member of the Hasidic community.  The accused’s lawyer is now claiming his client is inbred. Continue Reading →

Killing Religion Journalism

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By Jeff Sharlet

Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in paperback by Free Press / Simon & Schuster. When my co-author Peter Manseau and I set out to make Killing the Buddha, we wrote that “we had lost faith in the way faith gets talked about in America, the way it’s seen as either innocuous spirituality or dangerous fanaticism, perfume or mustard gas. After years of writing about religion, for newspapers and magazines and in letters to each other, we’d come to think that it is almost always both: Show us the truth and we’ll show you a lie, prove God is dead and we promise a resurrection.”

Great — but how do you tell that story?
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