… From “Junkets for Jesus” by Jeff Sharlet, Mother Jones, Monday Sep. 27, 2010 3:00 AM PDT … THE OLDEST AND MOST politically influential Christian conservative organization in Washington is known to the public, if at all, for one thing: adultery. In particular, that of three Republican politicians, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Gov. Mark Sanford …
Category: Christianity
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Sep 24 2010
Seriously?
This little gem, titled “Islam a legal system,” appeared on page 8 of the opinion section of the September 23, 2010 Sentinel Record… Dear editor: Regarding Mr. Vogt’s defense of Islam in America, I have two websites for him to check if he is seriously interested in the subject of religious freedom and Sharia Law: …
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Sep 16 2010
After the rapture
What’s Real About the Rapture? By John R. Coats, author of “Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis” September 16, 2010 09:34 AM My maternal grandparents lived in a small northeast-Texas town with a communal zeitgeist more aboriginal than modern. Everyone believed. “Is there really a God?” would have been as silly a question as …
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Sep 14 2010
Snatched! The abridged version…
“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge.” — Ogden Nash, from “So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much” … “Can’t reconcile America, Islam” (September 8, 2010) is typical of the inky stain spreading across the opinion pages of this …
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Sep 12 2010
People of the book
The true history of the Koran in America By Ted Widmer September 12, 2010 Nine years later, we are still haunted by Sept. 11, and in some ways it’s getting worse. All summer, a shrill debate over whether to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site was fueled by pundits on the right, who …
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Sep 10 2010
Ye have made it
And said unto them, It is written , My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46)
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Sep 10 2010
Madness
Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .
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