The Same Right to Be Wrong About God
You don’t have to believe your Muslim neighbor is right about God to believe he has exactly the same right to be wrong about God that you do.
When religious disagreement becomes an argument about who belongs in America, we’ve crossed an important line.
Happy 4th: “Christian Nation” and Other Fairy Tales
If early America could call itself a “Christian nation,” it’s partly because Native religions were erased, enslaved Africans weren’t counted as fully human, and Muslims, Hindus, and others were kept an ocean away.
New on the blog: “Christian Nation” And Other July 4 Bedtime Stories—a wry, pointed look at founding documents, Deists, Baptists, and why the Constitution never made “Christian nation” our official status.