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Obama’s Acceptance Speech and The Islamophobic Smear Campaign
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Brad Hirschfield
If Barack Obama were a doctor, he would get an A for diagnostic skill and a C for his ability to prescribe treatment. His acceptance speech last night was no different — a grand expression of each of those traits. Yes, he laid out a bunch of specifics, but did so as a laundry list…
To Senators Obama and McCain, Re: God and the Election
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Brad Hirschfield
I was asked by Sally Quinn and John Meacham of the Washington Post and Newsweek, what advice I would offer to Barack Obama and John McCain on the use of religion in their presidential campaigns. This was my response: Dear Senator McCain and Senator Obama, As a person of faith, I hope that religion plays…
Proof of God’s Existence
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Brad Hirschfield
The following story from the Chicago Tribune, ‘Jewish clause’ divides a family, state courts weigh in on a man’s will that disinherited any descendant who married a gentile, is proof not only of God’s existence, but that God must love the Jewish people very much, because nothing else explains the ongoing existence of people behaving…
Letter to an Evangelical Friend
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Brad Hirschfield
Some months ago I had the pleasure to meet a documentary film maker who is also an Evangelical Christian. Actually, those two facets of his identity are pretty closely related, at least right now, as he is working on a doc about the historical accuracy of the Exodus story. But the historicity of those stories…
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