National Prayer Breakfast

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  2/6/2022
  

  The United States Needs to Drop the National Prayer Breakfast

  by Anthea Butler

  Organized by a secretive Christian nationalist organization, the National Prayer Breakfast is an annual ritual that has no place in the political culture of a multicultural democracy. 

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• 5-3-18
  

  Do We Really Need a National Day of Prayer?

  by Michael Anthony Novak

  Yes, we do.

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• 2-12-15
  

  Distorting Christian History to Defend Islam

  Secularism didn’t save the West from religious excesses, and it won’t save us from jihadists.

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• 2-9-15
  

  President Obama, the National Prayer Breakfast, and Slavery

  by Joshua D. Rothman

  So vital was Christianity to the southern defense of slavery that some historians have estimated that ministers penned roughly half of all proslavery literature in the decades after 1830.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  2-7-15
  

  Why Obama is Right to avoid double standard about Modern Christian Atrocities

  by Juan Cole

  The outrage on the right about Obama’s entirely correct observations derives from a kind of Christian nationalism, in which Christians can do no wrong or are not responsible for the wrongs done by other Christians.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-5-15
  

  Critics lambast Obama for religious history lesson

  Obama compared the atrocities of the Islamic State to the bloodshed committed in the name of Christianity in centuries past.