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June 4th, 2010
12:45 PM ET
Jewish group denounces cartoons inspired by Gaza flotilla incidentThe Anti-Defamation League lashed out Friday against what it called “deeply offensive and hateful caricatures of Israelis and Jews” drawn by cartoonists across the Muslim world in the wake of the Gaza flotilla incident that left nine dead. The cartoons, which appeared in newspapers, use religious imagery to depict Israel as satanic, blood-thirsty and even compares it to the Nazis.
June 4th, 2010
08:46 AM ET
A year after 'Muslim speech,' American Muslims press Obama to deliver
June 4th, 2010
08:28 AM ET
The religion of footballCNN's Senior National Editor Dave Schechter has been gearing up for the World Cup, which kicks off June 11. He filed this report: My wife has been known to say – sometimes in jest, sometimes ruefully – that there are two religions in our house; one associated with synagogue, the other with soccer. Ours’ is hardly the only household around the globe where organized religion and organized football occasionally vie for primacy. [I will use the term “football” because that’s what the sport is called around the world. The game is, after all, played with feet.] You can be an agnostic or an atheist when it comes to religion but it’s much more difficult when we’re talking about the World Cup. Even if the game does not interest you, you will not be able to escape the passion. You will encounter people in your day life – at work, shopping, out for a meal – who are engrossed in this sporting spectacle.
June 4th, 2010
06:08 AM ET
Souter v. Scalia at Harvard Yard
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN Score one for David Souter. In the fisticuffs that is the Supreme Court, the recently retired justice often found himself on the losing side of 5-4 decisions. But in delivering Harvard’s 2010 commencement address last week, he gave the court’s conservatives a soft-spoken smackdown.
June 4th, 2010
02:00 AM ET
My Take: The market has become God
By Jim Wallis, Special to CNN It was a difficult May for “the market.” On May 6, the stock market plunged nearly a thousand points before recovering to close a few hundred points down. By month’s end, stocks had experienced their worst May in 70 years. It’s more evidence of a broken system - and that the market has become the end rather than the means. If we don’t rewire our values, our losses will have been in vain.
June 4th, 2010
01:42 AM ET
My Take: The market's not God, but it is virtuous
By Austin Hill, Special to CNN The market is not God, nor should it be regarded as such. I’m not aware of anybody who advocates that it should be regarded as God. Some people like to simply claim the market has become God, then spend lots of time and energy lamenting how this is a grave immorality. It’s very provocative. But if we are seriously seeking to be, as the Rev. Jim Wallis states, “smarter and more prudent about our economic lives,” then we’d all do well to ask whether assertions that are provocative are actually substantial. |
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Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor. 
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