11 days ago by Porter Doran

What is the Evangelicalist religious symbol? It is not a headdress, like the Sikh’s. It is not a saffron robe, like the religious Buddhist’s. I began to think of this today as I read a newsstory. A cashier at a Home Depot store in Georgia was — cashiered for wearing a button that said: One Nation [. ...

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11 days ago by Porter Doran

I think it is the most important comma in the history of the universe; it can be found in the so-called Apostle’s Creed: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin [...]

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21 days ago by Exoristos

“The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. “His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The em ...

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22 days ago by Porter Doran

Today I was browsing Eugene’s little basement used–theology-and-philosophy–book dealer — Windows Booksellers, it’s called — and came across a like-new set of the original printing of The Fundamentals. I’ve read the Table of Contents online and read excerpts here and there, but this was the real arti ...

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45 days ago by Epiktetos

… Only let me not give up my life irrationally, only let me not give up my life faintheartedly, or from some casual pretext. For again, God does not so desire; for he has need of a good universe and of good men to go to and fro upon earth. … What then? Must I explain [...]

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159 days ago by tomgandl

Gordon Brown has urged voters not to back the British National Party in Thursday’s Euro and local elections. It comes amid fears that the BNP could gain extra seats by capitalising on the public backlash over the MPs’ expenses scandal. In an article backing a Daily Mirror campaign, he writes: “If pe ...

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167 days ago by tomgandl

Isn’t it time to think carefully about how to approach this issue. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York yesterday urged people not to vote for the British National Party, which they said did not represent the views of the British public. Indeed it does not, and we add our voice to those of the Arc ...

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183 days ago by tomgandl

• Many Israelis still angry over Vatican’s war record • Palestinians hoping for support for independence Israel’s Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, is housed within an angular concrete ­corridor that leads visitors through appalling stories of persecution, suffering and death and out eventually to a cal ...

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681 days ago by Porter Doran

Match the evangelistic pitch to its denomination: 1. If nothing otherworldly happens in your worship service, then the other world must not approve of it, and you must join our church. 2. If you read and find these stories of prehistoric America credible, then you must join our church. 3. If you do ...

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747 days ago by Porter Doran

“In 1992 details relating to the apparitions that had previously been unreleased were finally revealed. “A priest who had interviewed the children at the time of the apparitions reported …: ‘Jacinta declares that Our Lady’s dress goes down only to her knees. Our Lady can only appear dressed, obvious ...

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