Dec 21 2013

A willful retreat into myth

Phil Robertson’s America

By , Dec 20 2013, 10:08 AM ET   I’ve yet to take in an episode of Duck Dynasty. I hear it’s a fine show, anchored by a humorous and good-natured family of proud…  [more]

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Dec 21 2013

Doctrine and dogma that obscures

Oy Vey Maria! The Virgin Birth as Mistake, Marketing, and Major Distraction

By , 12/20/2013  1:16 pm   There really is something about Mary. Catholics aren’t the only ones who harbor a measure of devotion to Jesus’…  [more]

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Dec 20 2013

And there they found God

The Bethlehem story takes us deeper into what it means to be human

By , Friday 20 December 2013 14.30 EST   It is not the present that they expected. Nothing close. They wanted the sort of God…  [more]

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Dec 10 2013

Eager to delete the past

The ‘long journey’ to Palestine

By , 09 Dec 2013 12:32   This December will be remembered as the month which saw Nelson Mandela’s passing, a landmark event ending the epic life of a man who left a…  [more]

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Dec 08 2013

Cruelty has no geographic boundaries

An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law

By Robert Fisk, Sunday 8 December 2013   Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he…  [more]

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Dec 08 2013

The real culprits were in plain sight

Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis

By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 8 December 2013   Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over…  [more]

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Dec 08 2013

The Last Strumpet

Doomsday theory 2014: Obama as the anti-Christ

By Jordan Yerman, Dec 2nd, 2013   [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos How the world will end: Not with a bang, but with a soundtrack 2012 came and went with no apocalypse. No economic implosion…  [more]

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