Category: Christianity

Politicized piety

Separation of church and state? Not on the 2012 campaign trail. By  Jonathan Turley, Published: September 30 … On Oct. 7, 1801, three men wrote to the new president of the United States on behalf of their Baptist congregation in Connecticut. The letter from the Danbury Baptist Association is most famous not for its content …

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Bring it on

Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God By Eliot Daley, 9/30/11 01:16 PM ET … We are smothering God.  And our church.  We’re engaged in an unholy combination of implicit theocide and communal suicide. That is the conclusion I have reached in trying to understand the long, anguished, painful decline of mainline Christian …

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Time to rethink your theology

My Take: Jesus would support Palestinian statehood bid By Carl Medearis, September 21st, 2011 12:27 PM ET … This week at the United Nations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has promised to ask for recognition of a Palestinian state. If he does, the United States will veto. Why? Largely because of something we’ll call Christian Zionism, …

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In the name of Christ

Professors denounce ‘Christian Zionism’ By Bob Allen, Tuesday, September 20, 2011   OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (ABP) – Two Baptist ethicists released an open letter Sept. 19 opposing “Christian Zionism” and its effect on U.S. policy toward Israel. As Palestinian leaders prepared to make a unilateral declaration of statehood before the United Nations — expected to …

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If God really died in Auschwitz

God is turning  over in His grave By Neri Livneh, 02:58 22.09.11 … A thousand wealthy individuals, whose combined worth was estimated by TheMarker at $20 billion, airlifted themselves to the tomb of the “Pele Yoetz” in a remote region of Bulgaria, where they were advised to go by the rising kabbalist star, Hasidic Rabbi …

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Egging on the Israeli equivalents

Perry’s Faith-Based Foreign Policy Directive By Justin Raimondo, September 21, 2011 … If Rick Perry makes it to the  White House, what will American foreign policy in the Middle East look  like? We got a clear indication of that, recently, when he stated: “As a Christian I have  a clear directive to support Israel, from …

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Orthodox Jewish cheerleaders

Texas Governor Rick Perry: Like a Likudnik By Chemi Shalev, 23:25 20.09.11 … Except for the fact that the proceedings were held in English, an Israeli attending Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “press conference” at the W Hotel in midtown Manhattan Tuesday morning might be excused for imagining that he was in the middle of a …

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