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“If Beck and Palin want a government so focused on one God and one religion, they should visit the Middle East and see how that concept is working out.” Helen Philpot

Posted 10:58AM, Sep 06 2010 in ·

“I don’t think Franklin Graham’s father was a saint. But at least ‘America’s Pastor’ focused on preaching the truths of the Christian gospel rather than spreading lies about rival religions. And for all his hobnobbing with presidents from Eisenhower on, he usually managed to stay above the political fray. Franklin Graham, in comparison, is looking increasingly sounding like a garden variety political hack, carrying the holy water for the most unholy elements in American society.” Stephen Prothero

Posted 12:57PM, Aug 23 2010 in ·

“An inclusive rhetoric toward Islam is sometimes dismissed as mere political correctness. Having spent some time crafting such rhetoric for a president, I can attest that it is actually a matter of national interest […] There are many reasons to criticize Obama’s late, vacillating response to the Manhattan mosque, and perhaps even to criticize this particular mosque. But those who want a president to assert that any mosque would defile the neighborhood near Ground Zero are asking him to undermine the war on terrorism. A war on Islam would make a war on terrorism impossible.” Michael Gerson

Posted 10:43AM, Aug 16 2010 in ·

Sat. Aug 14, 2010

Rights For All, Not Just The Ones You Like

After waiting for the local governmental bodies to make their decision on the building of the Cordoba House near the former site of the World Trade Center, the White House, currently occupied by someone who was a professor of constitutional law, finally spoke to the issue:

“I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground,” the president said in remarks prepared for the annual White House iftar, the sunset meal breaking the day’s fast.

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“I was asked at lunch today who or what I worshipped. The question was asked sincerely, and in the same spirit I responded that I worshipped whatever there might be outside knowledge. I worship the void. The mystery. And the ability of our human minds to perceive an unanswerable mystery. To reduce such a thing to simplistic names is an insult to it, and to our intelligence.” Roger Ebert

Posted 1:24PM, Aug 13 2010 in ·

“In March, the host urged his listeners to leave their churches if pastors talked about social or economic justice. Even after prominent clergy from across the faith and ideological spectrum refuted his arguments, Beck has continued his smear campaign by equating social justice with Marxism and Nazism.

Would you support a leader who said Jesus’ teachings can lead to Nazism or who attacks Christian pastors for preaching the full Gospel? Then why do so many Christians tune in to Glenn Beck?”Faith in Public Life

Posted 10:20PM, Jul 20 2010 in ·

Wed. Jul 11, 2007

Even The Pope

While we witness deadly sectarian strife in Iraq, as Muslim vows to kill Muslim, the Pope has gone out of his way to restate his view that the Catholic Church is the only real Christian church, and yours is just a gathering of people with no means of salvation.

It restates key sections of a 2000 document the pope wrote when he was prefect of the congregation, “Dominus Iesus,” which set off a firestorm of criticism among Protestant and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the “means of salvation.”

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Fri. Dec 09, 2005

Fog of War On Christmas

It’s a terrible time of year to be at war, especially here in our own home land. It dampens the spirit of this time to watch biased babbling heads, er, sparkling news personalities we all love virtually rip out their hair in horror over what claim they see happening.

Americans are bleeding red. And green. It’s important to know (because you may not have seen or heard any evidence of this yourself) ... there’s a War on Christmas.

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Posted 10:14AM, Dec 09 2005 in ·
Sat. May 07, 2005

Secular Republicans and Democratic Baptists

This article is titled “Secular Republicans and Democratic Baptists� because they are both becoming a rare breed, it seems. Yet what they seem to have in common is some form of politico-religious ex-communication.

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