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The current Supreme Court of the United States might well not reach the same decision that it did 39 years ago in Roe v Wade. The Republican Party has made overturning that decision central to its campaign ideology. That view is partlesser form of humanity. Michele Goldberg argues that many of the economic and cultural challenges facing the world could be solved or ameliorated by treating women as fully equal to men. Perhaps women should even have the same rights in America as corporations. Author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, Ms. Goldberg’s prior book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, was a New York Times best-seller. She has written for Salon.com, The New Republic, The Nation, Glamour and Rolling Stone magazines in the U.S. and The Guardian in the U.K. She is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast.
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Next: James Carse Too often we confuse religion with belief. Belief systems are closed. Religion, says Jim Carse, is an open, seeking, questioning, "horizonal" process. Truth is an illusion. Truth seeking is the path to knowledge and understanding. Those who assume they know the truth are ideologues and fundamentalists ... and dangerous. Even scientists succumb to the lure of certainty. The Religious Case Against Belief continues Professor Carse’s long-time public engagement with religion in the modern era, a role he fulfilled for many years on CBS-TV in New York City. His widely admired book, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility has been continuously in print since first published in 1968, becoming a slow-motion best-seller. His other books include The Silence of God, Breakfast at the Victory and The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple. Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion, Dr. Carse directed New York University’s Religious Studies Program for 30 years. This Program with James Carse will be here at 11:00 PM GMT, Sunday, February 5. |
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Paula's regular commentary is available on The Huffington Post.
New Post added: January 22: What, Are They Thinking? With fulsome media support, Newt Gingrich has made a career pawning off glibness as intelligence, bombast as insight. One of the most vicious politicians of our era seems blissfully unaware of the irony of his attacks on the "vicious" media... a lack of awareness that the media seems willingly to share. ... |
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