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Yes, follow First Amendment liberalism to its logical conclusions and you will end up with some pretty rough stuff, like American Civil Liberties Union lawyers backing the rights of neo-Nazis to march through a Chicago suburb full of Holocaust survivors.More recently, in the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Lewis? How about Jane Austen? How about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? When Fyodor Dostoyevsky sat down to write, was he thinking to himself, "How can I please the 'Christian' marketplace?" How about Flannery O'Connor? By the way, her work was the subject of my "On Religion" column for Universal this past week
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Christians drop, 'nones' soar in new religion portrait
Today, it's the opposite.Many of today's formerly faithful left conservative evangelical or Catholic denominations because "they saw them align with a conservative political agenda and they don't want to be identified with that," Hout said. Indeed, it's the public attention given to "nones" in the last decade, combined with the wide-open access to anti-religious discussion on the Internet, that drives the change, Silverman said."More people know the facts, and more people realize they are not alone," Silverman said
A Templeton Conversation: Does science make belief in God obsolete?
The fact that we can recognize disorder, brokenness, and sin means that they occur within a larger framework of order, beauty, and goodness, or else in principle we could not recognize them as such. As a surprising example, it turns out that the most iconic "fact" in the life sciences is only a temporary foothold: DNA doesn't always form a double helix, and those exceptions are mighty interesting
He was critical of Obama for not conveying strongly enough the breadth and depth of the threat from Islamic militants, mentioning the videos of beheadings and other barbaric acts. Walker said Saturday that if he runs for president, he will focus on problems affecting the country, from tax policy and the economy to confronting Islamic State terrorists
Top Religious News From Around the World - Beliefnet News
General William Boykin was forced to retire from his post as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense after a Los Angeles Times reporter recorded him testifying of his Christian faith in churches in Oklahoma and Texas. An extremist group called Boko Haram has killed least 10 Christians, including a youth leader in Maiduguri and a medical student, a pastor and his son in Yobe
Why Christian Mingle Feels So Creepy - The Gaggle
It only takes reading the next verse to see that Jesus says blessed are those who have not seen me yet still believe Google evidence for God and you will find plenty The Bible is not a history book and it is not a science book. Seriously? Not! She finally got a job as a transaction coordinator with Intero Realty in Folsom and El Dorado Hills, could have been a realator and made decent money, but she claimed that she hated showing houses and being fake like all other realtors
Christian News, The Christian Post
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Read more about WVW-TV Presents: What The Suffering of Jesus Christ Teaches Us, with Host Jesse Johnson Comments Wednesday, July 15th Donald Trump Shakes Up the 2016 Campaign Author(s): Phyllis Schlafly Liberals have perfected the art of exploiting a tragedy for political gain. Tommy Ice "Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come." - Revelation 18:3 By the time you read this piece, the United States will likely be at war with Iraq- the ancient people of Babylon
Christians have no right to wear cross at work, says Government - Telegraph
Mrs Chaplin, 56, from Exeter, was barred from working on wards by Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust after she refused to hide the cross she wore on a necklace chain, ending 31 years of nursing. BA later changed its uniform policy but Mrs Eweida lost her challenge against an earlier employment tribunal decision at the Court of Appeal and in May 2010 was refused permission to go to the Supreme Court
Major Religions Ranked by Size
How is the size of a religion determined for the purposes of this list? When referring to the "size" of a religion, what is usually meant is its number of adherents. How is classification done for official government figures? It is important to note that data for the size of various religions within a given country often come from government census figures or official estimates
10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Hell - OnFaith
But more recently, the challenges have come from those who take the authority of Bible quite seriously, and argue their case on biblical as well as theological and philosophical grounds. I say this as one who has written a book defending eternal hell, numerous articles and a more recent book defending eternal hell along with heaven, and a Protestant account of purgatory
"I think churches should recognise that they are already doing so much right," Jones says, referring to the idea of having people welcoming on the front door, and people knowing where and when to set up for coffee after church. The three churches he visited were St Luke's, Holloway, where Tomlinson (author of 'How to be a Bad Christian') is vicar, Hillsong in central London, and St Mary's Bryanston Square
Debunking Christianity
http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/Among other things, I discuss my journey from Pentecostal preacher to atheist biblical scholar, and why Jesus cannot be viewed as a peaceful, gender egalitarian, and eco-friendly paragon of virtue. Like many of the unaffiliated in America, my problems with religion included biblical, social, personal, and scientific issues, the fine details of which are beyond this short article
Armed with the latest surveys, along with personal testimonies from friends and readers, I explain how young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be too political, too exclusive, old-fashioned, unconcerned with social justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. There is actually a theory out there that Jesus actually went east and spoke with buddists during the gap of time where we have no record of where Jesus was, because, when he returned his teaching lined up with those of Buddah
(See religious groupings in pie chart below.) This report includes findings from a nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted June 28-July 9, 2012, using both landlines and cell phones, among a representative sample of 2,973 adults. Pew Research Center surveys conducted over the last 10 years, for example, find modest growth in the number of people who say they seldom or never attend religious services, as well as a declining number who say they never doubt the existence of God
I put it this way, have you ever sat at a stop sign, waiting to pull out into a busy street? Have you ever had someone blare their horn to get you to move on it? What do you tell yourself? Do you swerve into the road to get that person to stop, or do you get mad and wait or do something passive aggressive like make them wait extra long? How you respond tells a lot about how you cope with peer pressure. and even ourselves? In recent months, I have seen more and more people with fair skin like mine joining protests, lamenting systemic injustice, and condemning acts of racism around the country
Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics
I'm an atheist." Francis's reaching out to atheists and people who belong to no religion is a marked contrast to the attitude of former Pope Benedict, who sometimes left non-Catholics feeling that he saw them as second-class believers. Using scripture from the Gospel of Mark, Francis explained how upset Jesus' disciples were that someone outside their group was doing good, according to a report from Vatican Radio
Atheism and Agnosticism from About.com
There's no single judgment that can be made about the Crusades or even crusading generally, but it is a subject which merits closer attention than it usually receives. Share Objective Truth: Are Things True Regardless of Belief? The idea of objective truth is the idea that no matter what we believe to be true, some things will always be true and other things will always be false
close Email This Recipient's Email Address (Separate multiple address with commas) Your Email Address Message (Optional) Send me a copy or Cancel close Thank You Your email has been sent. Since the beginning of recorded history, which is defined by the invention of writing by the Sumerians around 6,000 years ago, historians have cataloged over 3700 supernatural beings, of which 2870 can be considered deities
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