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Paul Prather: Religious groups need to reconsider how they interact with a society in which even the largest of them — Catholics, evangelicals — are now a spiritual minority.
An investigation on subjective well-being representing 90% of the world population has noted that, globally, religious people are usually happier than nonreligious people, though nonreligious people also reach high levels of happiness. [88] As of 2001, much of research on religion and health has been conducted within the United States. [89]
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s. ...
Over the course of time, Christians began to accept ... that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for killing Jesus. According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus' death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time, have committed the sin of deicide, or God-killing. For 1900 years of Christian-Jewish history ...
However, a counter argument by Stephen Maitzen suggests that the ethical inconsistency in the bible that is not followed by most Christians or Jews today, such as the execution of homosexuals, blasphemers, disobedient children, or the punishment for mixing linen and cloth, ultimately undermines the skeptical theism argument. [115]
The lawyer for three children who were sexually abused by a MorningStar Fellowship volunteer told a judge Monday the church should not be dropped from lawsuits over claims of religious freedom.
Recurring cultural, political, and theological rejection of evolution by religious groups [a] exists regarding the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life. In accordance with creationism, species were once widely believed to be fixed products of divine creation, but since the mid-19th century, evolution by natural selection has been established by the scientific community as an ...
ACLU law argues that abortion ban is based on Christian beliefs so Hoosiers of other faiths should be allowed to receive abortion care.