Category: Culture

Such a stench

Monster Mosques and Muslim Madness By Nathan Lean, 06/19/2012 11:49 am   At 41,000 square feet, the recently completed Old Apostolic Lutheran worship center in Woodland, Wash., surely classifies as a “mega church.” The two-story edifice includes two lobbies, a large sanctuary, two multipurpose rooms, an extensive nursery, a massive dining hall, and lower level …

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Boom, boom!

Tourists venture to West Bank to ‘shoot terrorists’ By Akiva Novick, 06.18.12, 13:31   Summer camp, warfare style: Like a frozen turkey plunged into boiling oil, a group of American tourists descend from an air-conditioned van into the scorching heat of the West Bank. Flashing smiles all around, they march into Caliber 3, a local …

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Always in alliance with despots against liberty

David Barton’s Jefferson By Martin E. Marty, April 30, 2012   Our premier historian of late colonial and early republican America, Gordon Wood, while reviewing a book on Roger Williams warms up readers with references to Thomas Jefferson. “It’s easy to believe in the separation of church and state when one has nothing but scorn …

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Bible Believers

Christian missionary group with pig’s head taunt Arab-Americans at Dearborn festival By Niraj Warikoo, 12:59 PM, June 16, 2012   Tensions flared Friday evening at the annual Arab International Festival in Dearborn as members of some Christian missionary groups — including one called the Bible Believers — taunted Arab Americans with a pig’s head and …

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Inspired and planned by the institutions of racism

Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s moving reflections on the occupation’s 45th birthday By Henry Norr, June 15, 2012 … Nurit Peled-Elhanan, daughter of a prominent Israeli general and mother of a suicide bombing victim, and her brother Miko Peled have long been among the most courageous Israeli critics of their nation’s treatment of the Palestinians, but this year they’re …

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It wasn’t even argued about

Quotes from the Early Church Writers on Military Service By Tad Delay, June 10 2012 … I recently finished a paper on the teaching of the early church fathers regarding military service.  This list used to be one of the more popular on a previous iteration of my site, so I’m posting it (updated/cited) again. …

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To be great is to be misunderstood

The Apostle Paul Was Not a Misogynist Homophobe By Aaron Taylor, 06/12/2012  7:00 am … Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “To be great is to be misunderstood.” If Emerson was right, then the Apostle Paul might be one of the greatest men to ever live. Few religious leaders have been as grossly misunderstood as Paul. Unlike …

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