More than 80 percent of Americans now say that we are on the wrong track, but many if not most still believe that the history of other nations is irrelevant — that the United States is unique, chosen by God. So did all the previous world economic powers: Rome, Spain, the Netherlands (in the maritime [...]

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While the vast majority of people in her generation abandoned religion long ago, there is another ’strange coincidence’ which leaves many of my friends and students uneasy. The earthquake occurred on May 12th, or 5.12. My friends show me how if one adds each individual number together (5 + 1 +2), the sum is 8. [...]

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An old menace has returned, but in very different forms
EARLIER this year Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to his country’s parliament, posed two questions: “Who are our enemies?” and “Why do they hate us?” He described an axis of evil, with Iran’s enemies being “all the wicked men of the world, whether abroad or at [...]

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From Muslims in Europe to evangelical Christians in Africa, it is religious believers who are shaping the early 21st Century. Charismatic movements are sweeping throughout the Southern Hemisphere, while high birth rates among immigrants are provoking soul-seeking in the historically Christian West. For this week’s List, FP looks at the fast-growing faiths that are upending [...]

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