When a new religion or ideology sweeps through a culture, and especially when that religion or ideology becomes fashionable among elites as the ideology of expressive individualism has become in the United States, people react in various ways. Those who have already abandoned the old religion or religions, or whose allegiance to them is merely […]
Published Date: May 3, 2016 | Topics: Foreign Policy and International Affairs, Politics and Current Affairs, Religion
Theists and atheists alike deserve protection for their views. [This article was co-written by Robert P. George and Hannah Rosenthal.] Should it be a crime to deny the existence of God? In the Russian city of Stavropol, Viktor Krasnov, a 38-year-old man, faces trial, charged with publicly insulting Orthodox Church believers by supporting atheism in social […]