“Here in Appalachia’s Bible Belt, conservatives in the Legislature want to force all West Virginia public high schools to teach Bible classes, as occurs in several other Republican-controlled states…”
James A. Haught
Published in: Art Voice, Counterpunch, OpEd News, Patheos, Canadian Atheist, The Good Men PRoject, The Secular Community, Juan Cole, Free Thought Today
Date: February 11,28, March 1,4,6,9,13,2020
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“Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey helped create a four-season television series – “Greenleaf” – about a black megachurch where worshipers whoop, sway, dance, wave arms, squeal, shout and shell out truckloads of money…”
James A. Haught
Published in: Daylight Atheism, OpEd News, The Berlin Daily Sun, Counterpunch, Z Net
Date: February 10,15,17,2020
662 Words
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“In violation of the separation of church and state, American tax dollars are funneled to fundamentalist private schools teaching crackpot absurdities – such as a claim that Noah probably took two baby dinosaurs onto his ark…”
James A. Haught
Published in: CityWatch LA, Patheos, The Times and Democrat, OpEd News, Counterpunch, Charleston Gazette Mail, The Peace Worker
Date: January 16,22,2020
544 Words
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“Every schoolchild knows that the Ancient Mariner was forced to wear a dead albatross around his neck. I think America’s Republican Party wears a dying albatross: white evangelicals who are both the GOP’s life-support system and also a curse upon Republicans.”
James A. Haught
Published in:
Bainbridge Island Review, Juan Cole, OpEd News, Patheos, Gilmer Free Press, West Virginia Press, Counterpunch
Date: January 8,14,20,2020
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“Cults usually are one-man religions. A magnetic, dictatorial, dogmatic, demagogue draws throngs of followers and leads them into lala-land, sometimes dangerously.”
Author: James A. Haught
Published in: Patheos, Sierra County California Prospect, Bainbridge Island Review, Counterpunch, Juan Cole, Emmitsburg Maryland News-Journal, Gilmer West Virginia Free Press, Smirking Chimp
Date: 2019: December 16, 18, 20, 23, 25
627 words
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“Progressives hope for an America where health care is a human right for everyone — and women’s right to choose remains secure ”
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Published in: Sierra County California Prospect, Common Dreams, Alternet, Counterpunch, Middletown Pennsylvania Press & Journal, Secular Humanism, Canadian Atheist, Smirking Chimp, Emmitsburg Maryland News Journal
Date: 2019, September 8, 9, 10, 13, 19
854 words
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