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Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as they storm al-Aqsa mosque compound
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Trump Says Religion Reduces Crime. Experts Disagree. | HuffPost Life
““Religion can have the opposite effect,” Adamczyk added. “We can think about murder and terrorism, and in some cases, religion is the motivating source for that.”
Belief in heaven and hell doesn’t appear to deter crime, either.
“Although there are people who choose not to commit crime in order to ‘go to heaven,’ empirical research does not indicate that is how religion generally works in reducing crime,” Jang said.
This distinction is found in a 2021 study by the Percy Foundation, a nonprofit that studies religion and criminal justice. Researchers interviewed 526 inmates and found that the majority were religious believers prior to their arrests.
Notably, 69.5% of sex offenders and 62.7% of the non-sex offenders said religious faith was “somewhat or very important” to them based on self-reported views prior to their arrests. While this is compared to 73% of adult men in the general U.S. population who say religion is “somewhat or very important,” according to a 2014 Pew survey, it’s still noteworthy that the majority of incarcerated men were religious before committing a crime. ”…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-religion-crime_l_6a0cd3c2e4b079e4ea33fd88
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
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The Trump administration is planning a prayer event on the National Mall. All but one of the speakers is Christian : NPR
Americans United for Separation of Church and State said the event will advance Christian nationalism rather than religious freedom, and on Friday, a group of progressive faith leaders will host a virtual press briefing that argues Rededicate 250 misrepresents how America's founders approached religious tolerance.
As a counterpoint to the Rededicate event, Interfaith Alliance said it will team up with protest artist Robin Bell to project pro-religious freedom messages, including "Democracy NOT Theocracy" and "Reject Christian Nationalism," on the walls of the National Gallery of Art on Thursday evening…
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The Religious War on America’s Kids (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast episode 029)
Episode Show Notes:
- Ken Paxton’s Christian Nationalist press release.
- Text of the TX law Paxton was ranting about.
- Updated Axios story about DOJ leaving Dems and Liberals in Epstein docs.
- Hemant Mehta at the Friendly Atheist takes PragerU’s Oklahoma teacher “test” and reports on it.
- BBC reports on FL vaccine mandate ban.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton pushes for Christian prayer in public schools - The Washington Post
"In Texas classrooms, we want the Word of God opened, the Ten Commandments displayed, and prayers lifted up," Paxton said in a news release on his office's letterhead. "Our nation was founded on the rock of Biblical Truth, and I will not stand by while the far-left attempts to push our country into the sinking sand."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/04/ken-paxton-texas-school-prayer/



