National Public Radio posts an excellent satire of Satan’s open letter to Pat Robertson. The Onion has a similarly humorous/dismissive response.
The Guardian interviews Shlomo Sand, author of the popular book The Invention of the Jewish People. What might have been another standard anti-Zionism piece brings the public contestation of religion into it quite clearly.
Key excerpt: “But, say Sand’s critics, since all national identities are myths, why pick on the Jews? Only a few fundamentalists think God actually promised Israel to Moses. Meanwhile, millions of Jews feel a cultural and religious attachment to Zion. It is in their liturgy and their sense of self. It is no fiction.”
Muslim Voices discusses the relationship between European and Muslim identities.
The National Catholic Reporter has a large sampling of the reactions to the Pope’s recent visit to the primary synagogue in Rome.
Dunedin School reports on the use of biblical verses by a Michigan-based defense contractor. But Missives From Marx proffers a rejoinder to the discourse as a whole, criticizing the politics of authenticity that underlies much of it. The BBC reports that the firm will stop making such inscriptions.
Roland Boer mocks nostalgia for returning to a pre-secular “enchanted” worldview.
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