Aug 08 2013
Richard Dawkins’ tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an extremist Muslim cleric By Nesrine Malik, Thursday 8 August 2013 13.13 EDT Today is the first day of Eid, the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. I took the day off, as Eid on your own at work without family …
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Aug 03 2013
Who is ‘Judaizing’ King David’s Tomb? By Nir Hasson, Aug. 3, 2013 5:12 AM A serious act of vandalism, a string of coincidences, and a decision by the Israel Antiquities Authority have combined to change the character of King David’s Tomb on Mt. Zion from a Muslim site into a synagogue. On Tuesday this …
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Aug 03 2013
Christian Zionism: The New Heresy that Undermines Middle East Peace By Revd Dr Stephen Sizer, Thursday, 01 August 2013 08:00 At least one in four American Christians surveyed recently by Christianity Today magazine said that they believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel. This view is known as Christian …
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Aug 02 2013
Benjamin Franklin to the Federal Convention 17 Sept. 1787 Farrand 2:641–43 The engrossed Constitution being read, Docr. Franklin rose with a speech in his hand, which he had reduced to writing for his own conveniency, and which Mr. Wilson read in the words following. Mr. President I confess that there are several parts of …
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Jul 27 2013
Why millennials are leaving the church By Rachel Held Evans, July 27th, 2013 08:33 AM ET At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial. I wrote my first essay with a pen and paper, but by the time I graduated from college, I owned a cell phone and used Google as a verb. I …
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Jul 26 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013 CE, at 3:00PM CST O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge. It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue, and great, delicious, dripping irony (with apologies to the late, great Ogden Nash). …
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Jun 28 2013
If you’re ‘true to yourself’, you might end up finding no real self to be true to By Giles Fraser, Friday 21 June 2013 14.30 EDT Earlier this week, Zoe Williams did a sterling job debunking the latest nonsense from the Girl Guides, who have announced that they will no longer “serve God” but …
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