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Even religion-based politics. As I write this, I read in The Mosman Daily, the local newspaper in an affluent suburb of Sydney, Australia, a letter from a local minister who resists criticism that he is “intoxicated” by religion when he attacks other religions. He explains that “my reading of history is that the reality of Jesus's death and resurrection does, in fact, call in to (sic) question the veracity of every other faith system… . If I am wrong…, then I’ll quit my job at St. Augustine's, go back to corporate finance, and recommend that the church sell its land… .” (August 17, 2006, at p. 26). In the U.S., evolutionary theory remains so disturbing to religious fundamentalists that they have invented an alternative, scientifically formatted “creationism” theory. The point is not that religious views are empirically based but that religionists claim they are.
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Jack Katz is Professor of Sociology, UCLA. His current research is on the use of IRBs to censor social research and on the diversity of neighborhood development in Hollywood.
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Katz, J. Fourfold Tables v. Three Dimensional Realities. Qual Sociol 29, 557–563 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-006-9050-9
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