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Religion, a “Sophie’s Choice,” and an Easy Choice
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Religion, a “Sophie’s Choice,” and an Easy Choice

Choosing Between Religious Dogma and Rational Self-Interest: A Path to Freedom

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Craig Biddle
May 07, 2016
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Lamenting the political version of a “Sophie’s choice” between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency, Dennis Prager surveys related reasons for pessimism.

What Prager and his fellow religionists fail to grasp, however, is that this wretched choice and these causes for despair are substantially results of Americans’ adherence to religio…

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