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Tag Archives: America
Does “Faith” Separate Us?
“You ruined my life,” my mother told me. The first time she said it was decades ago, when I first married, and she’s repeated it more than once since then.
The distress I caused her (which, perhaps oddly, never seemed to impact our loving relationship), was due to my marrying a non-Jew. Nominally, he was Greek Orthodox.
He and I had two children. And, according … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged agnostic, America, atheist, children, Christian, divorce, faith, intermarriage, Jewish, marriage, parenting
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Blessed Are the Happy
“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.”
─ Jean Baudrillard
Molding statistics to fit one’s preconceived conclusions is such a common practice that it’s a cliché even to point out when it occurs. But sometimes, I just can’t resist….
The following headline appeared on the 5 October 2012 on-line edition of Deseret News, Utah’s 2nd largest daily newspaper by circulation:
“Religious … Read more
Posted in Umwelt Utahpia
Tagged abortion, America, Deseret News, happiness, polls, rationality, religiousness, research, statistics, surveys
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