Mark Maynard | the secularist agenda

The early American origins of the War on Christmas

By Mark | December 30, 2013

This holiday season Sarah Palin became the most recent in a long line of shameless conservative pundits to cash in on the so-called War on Christmas. Her book, “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” was released at the end of November to the delight of poorly informed Fox News-viewers everywhere. The […]

Posted in History, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bible, Bill O'Reilly, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Church of England, Easter, evangelical, Foolstide, FOX News, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, human sacrifice, Increase Mather, Jesus, Michael D. Hattem, nativity, pagan, paranoia, persecution complex, Puritans, religious freedom, Roman, Sabbath, Sarah Palin, Saturnalia, secular saboteurs, secularism, The Junto, war on Christmas, wassailling | 12 Comments

The Humanists present their “sensible approach to Islam”

By Mark | September 24, 2012

A few times a year, inspired by my ever-growing admiration for Kurt Vonnegut, I get the urge to delve into Humanism. (For those of you who are unaware of what Humanism is, Vonnegut, a devout Humanist, described it thusly… “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you […]

Posted in Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged American Humanist Association, human rights, Humanism, jihad, jingoism, Kurt Vonnegut, Muslim, nativism, radical Islam, religions, religious extremism, religious fundamentalism, secularism, separation of church and state, Sharia law, terrorism, theocracy, women's rights, xenophobia | 7 Comments

How Christian were our Founding Fathers?

By Mark | February 11, 2010

It’s a question that we’ve discussed here many times over the past half-dozen years – how Christian were the founding fathers? And this weekend’s New York Times magazine goes into a great deal of depth on the subject, while exploring the current battle being waged within the Texas School Board on the rewriting of American […]

Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Religious Extremism | Also tagged a wall of separation, a wall of separation between Church & State, American Academy of Religion, American revolution, American Society of Church History, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Christian nation, Christianity, Christians under attack, Connecticut Baptists, Cynthia Dunbar, Enlightenment, European Christian tradition, First Amendment, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, George Washington, Grand Architect, Great Awakening, James Kracht, Justice Hugo Black, Martin Marty, Mayflower Compact, misunderstanding American history, Randall Balmer, rationalism, religion, Richard Brookhiser, secularism, Texas school board, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia House of Burgesses | 13 Comments

Tag Archives: the secularist agenda

The early American origins of the War on Christmas

The Humanists present their “sensible approach to Islam”

How Christian were our Founding Fathers?

Connect

Recent Comments

Elsewhere

Arts and Culture

Friends

Information, News & Politics

Organizations

SE Michigan Blogs

Special Projects

Ypsi Living

Search