Category: Christianity

Locked in a spiritual battle

Understanding ‘God’s war’ against abortion and Wendy Davis in Texas By Sarah Posner, Friday 28 June 2013 12.06 EDT   Texas state senator Wendy Davis has electrified the pro-choice movement. Not just because of her sheer endurance in a nearly 11-hour filibuster, not just because she stood up to condescension and sexism, and not just …

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Dear John

God’s Dear John Letter To The U.S. By http://www.thegodarticle.com/, 09/13/2011   Dear John and Jane Public, Honestly, don’t fret over it. I get it. Dear God, I get it. You’ve found a new god. Truthfully, I’ve seen this coming for awhile. I tried to deny it. I even tried to change it. (I have to …

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An extraordinary swamp

The prosperity gospel makes a mockery of Christianity By Andrew Brown, May 29, 2013   There is a very good programme on the “prosperity gospel” available on the Radio 4 website right now. Two things need saying about it. The first is that it proves, if anything could, the difficulty of defining religions in terms …

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We live in the earthly one

An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel By Avner Inbar and Assaf Sharon, May 27, 2010   In a recent public letter to President Obama, Elie Wiesel urged the President not to “pressure” Israel to cease settlement activity in Jerusalem. According to Wiesel: For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is …

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Driven by deeply sexist and patriarchal ideology

The dark side of home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war By Katherine Stewart, Wednesday 8 May 2013 07.00 EDT   Several decades ago, political activists on the religious right began to put together an “ideology machine”. Home schooling was a big part of the plan. The idea was to breed and “train up” …

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It hurts to write this sentence

Behind the use of drones is a complacent belief that murdering Muslims is always justifiable By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 28 April 2013   First, read this unconditional acceptance of facts that cannot be denied nor excused. Islamicist terrorism has inflicted atrocities and diffused panic and amorphous, long-term anxiety from east to west, south to …

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Must we live forever

At 65, modern Israel is falling short of Zionism’s most basic goal By Matt Hill, Tuesday 16 April 2013   Soon after the founding of Israel in 1948, a lady newly arrived from Poland was standing outside a cinema in Haifa. When she saw a young soldier walking up to the ticket booth, she froze. …

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