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In an article entitled, “ Religious Freedom in Retreat ,” Eric Metaxas warns that religious liberty is under assault worldwide.   Thomas Farr, director of The Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown’s Berkley Center, is quoted by Metaxas as stating that nearly three quarters of the world’s population (almost 5 billion) live in nations where religious freedom is severely restricted.   http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/religious-freedom-under-gun_648235.html For those who think that this hostility is unique to the Middle East, North Africa and some portions of Asia, Farr notes that “French government restrictions have increased too, moving it ahead of CUBA [emphasis mine] in that category.”  In fact, Europe which is historically Christian “is the region with the largest proportion of nations where hostility toward religion is rising . . . Social hostility in the United Kingdom has increased so much that the country now stands with Iran and Saudi Arabia in the cat...

The Faith of Barack Obama is a book that seeks to sift through all of the available material to determine what it is that the nation’s first black president believes.  Using speeches, news reports, the president’s own books, interviews and other sources, Mansfield paints a portrait of Barack Obama that some will agree with and others wholeheartedly disagree.  As the reader of this review, you are encouraged to form your own opinion based on the facts presented in the book from a large variety of sources.  After acknowledging polling data which reveals the confusion of Americans as to what faith the president actually belongs to, the author seeks to unravel this mystery in a coherent form.  He begins with Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention of 2004.  This is where a man with a strange name was first introduced to the nation in a very big way.  In that speech, he began to articulate a religiously Left vision for the nation as an alternative...