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The Rise of Secular America

According to David Niose, the author of a newly released book entitled. The Nonbeliever Nation, something unprecedented has happened on the American political scene over

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Why Do We Believe? II

Believing in God/religion continues to survive despite steady improvement in human intelligence and the incessant challenges to faith presented by science and its unaccommodating new

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Why Do We Believe?

Recent public opinion polls show that an overwhelming majority of Americans still believe in God and a universal spirit, almost nine out of ten people

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Mulims by Default

It may sound a bit unorthodox, but the intended purpose of this article is to examine whether or not the rule of economic rationality applies

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The Death of a Superpower

Scores of books have been written in response to the Great Recession of 2007, but none is more provocative than Suicide of a Superpower: Will

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Comic Clerics

I have a few Islamic clerics, mullahs, on my list of Facebook friends. They are fun to be connected to. Physically, their distinguishing features are

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Killing for Cause

Sadly, once in a while, , or a husband murdering his wife, which he suspected of adultery, in order to restore the so-called family honor.

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Good Garbage

I really miss many things about the hometown I left behind nearly 38 years ago when I decided to travel to America to pursue graduate

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Three Brothers

For a wandering mind like mine, sometimes concentration is the hardest thing to accomplish. However, when I started reading The Golden Cage, the latest book

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Thank God you are God

Dear God, I used to read what is claimed to be your last holy book written in Arabic, the Quran, because Mullahs have told us,

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Are We Really So Special?

My children often remind me of how infatuated I am with my Iranianness and how obsessed I am with my cultural distinctiveness. Admittedly, we Iranians

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End of Subsidies

The government of the IRI is phasing out its broad based subsidies and replacing them with cash payments of about $40 a month per eligible

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Price of human organs

As they say, the dumbest question you can ask is the one to which you know the answer. I posted this question purposefully to bring

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The Swing of the Pendulum

The resurgence of conservative ideology over the past two years and especially following the recent election clearly signifies the voters’ dissatisfaction with the way things

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Inconvenient Realities

When it comes to the US economy, there is no shortage of bad news; awkward economic realities are more numerous than we think. Despite all

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God & Religion

In his new book entitled The Grand Design, Steven Hawking argues that the modern physics has progressed to the point where it “leaves no place

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