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• The Odd Uses of Religion

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 129
  Those of us who don’t find religion that compelling can still find it fascinating. People believe all sorts of things, and tell you that you should too. That’s kind of fun, in an anthropological way. For example, back in the fifties, a nicely scrubbed pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses might appear at your door on a ...
  7 hours ago

• Here we stand

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  "The Manhattan Declaration" [see below ] is now approaching 200,000 signatures. It is not, as some have contended, a statement of theological unity. It is what I have called "honest ecumenism," identifying areas of agreement about public policy by individual members of several communities of faith without ...
  1 day ago

• BJP demands statement from PM on Babri demolition

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kolkata, Nov 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday demanded a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the central government’s role on the day the Babri mosque was razed in Ayodhya.Pointing out that Manmohan Singh was the number two man in the then P.V. Narasimha Rao government, BJP spokesman ...
  4 days ago

• Shameless politicians who rules us and shameless opposition who sits

  
  letz change d rulz — Authority: 107
  26/11 has blown apart a little part in every Indian. But each one of us feels it in a different way. some speak, some curse , some vent, some sit in despair , some don’t bother to say, some react as its their job, some feel as they have lost their family , some repeat the telecast to earn more money, some react as ...
  4 days ago

• Firmly separate politics and religion, Liberhan says

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Retired judge M.S. Liberhan, who probed the razing of the 1992 Babri Masjid, has called for a firm separation of religion and politics and sought “exemplary punishment” for those using religion for political ends.“The events of Dec 6, 1992, and the many subsequent events have already ...
  6 days ago

• "Malthusians are always wrong about everything."

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  Are there too many people? No, there are too many Malthusians. Brendan O’Neill explains : In the year 200 AD, there were approximately 180 million human beings on the planet Earth. And at that time a Christian philosopher called Tertullian argued: "We are burdensome to the world, the resources are scarcely ...
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• "We act together..."

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  "The Manhattan Declaration" [see below ] now has over 61,000 signatures. Its worth reading even if you dont intend to sign. If you agree with it , why not add your name? [If you dont agree, it really isnt necessary to denounce it here.]
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• Sarah Palins Hot Line to God

  
  GEEZERPOWER — Authority: 126
  "Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up" Franklin Graham, head of powerful Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is also the head of a $ raising scheme called Samaritans Purse . Franklin, got to know Palin early this year in Alaska and he invited her to North Carolina. She accompanied him as the ...
  6 days ago

• Friedrich Ebert Stifung conference in Penang

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 422
  Over the weekend I was attending an intensive conference organized by Friedrich Ebert Stifung . It is an organization that promotes social democracy and network for social democratic political parties and Non-Government-Organization to liaise with one another. I get to meet many new friends who are actively involve ...
  1 week ago

• The Manhattan Declaration

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  "The Manhattan Declaration" is a statement published today with remarkably broad ecumenical support identifying three of the crucial points where faith and public policy intersect in America right now. First Things has published the entire statement here . From the "Declaration" website : Christians, when they ...
  1 week ago

• "A new birth of freedom"

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  I had the privilege this past summer, for the first time since I was a teenager, of visiting the battlefield and cemetery at Gettysburg. Today is the anniversary of the occasion when Abraham Lincoln delivered a few words at the dedication of that cemetery: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on ...
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• Deck the halls...

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  There are Christians who oppose the celebration of Christmas because they consider it pagan in origin. Far more Christians are worried that Christmas has less and less to do with Christ. The Nazis would have been happy about that. They wanted to remove Christianity from it altogether. There are those in America today ...
  1 week ago

• Days of Whine and Rogues: Palin’s Persecution Complex

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 422
  If you can stand to read one more thing about Sarah Palin’s overhyped autobiography Going Rogue , have a look at Thomas Frank’s takedown in today’s Wall Street Journal , called “The Persecution of Sarah Palin.” Frank argues that the supposedly tough, indefatigable Palin–the woman who shoots wolves ...
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• Frank Schaeffer on Fundamentalist Christians and Danger to President Obama

  
  Greenlee Gazette — Authority: 144
  Its been my contention for a while that one of the biggest problems in politics right now is religion. Not religion in and of itself--though I have my issues with that too--but political ideology as religion. As the conservatives and/or Republicans boil themselves down to the hardcore fringe, the line between ...
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• The Apocalyptic Visions of the Left

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 125
  by Matt Sutton While not busy watching the libertarians skewer Harvey for daring to give us his take on a new book’s strengths and weaknesses (which last time I checked is what you are supposed to do in a book review, right libertarians?) or witnessing the continuing implosion of my fantasy football team ...
  1 week ago

• "A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve..."

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  Edmund Burke defined a statesman as someone with "a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve...." Dale Ahlquist uses Chesterton to explain how sensible reformers avoid a cavalier attitude toward discarding custom and tradition: History shows that reform is a thing that is indeed needed from time to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Buddhism in Texas prisons

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 537
  One usually thinks of prison ministries as a Christian or perhaps an Islamic calling, but according to an informative article by Zen Zheng in the Houston Chronicle (" Cultivating her faith ," Nov. 12) "Buddhist volunteers work in eight of 113 state prisons." Buddhist prison ministries are spearheaded by Myokei ...
  2 weeks ago

• "I will never live for the sake of another man..."

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 473
  Peter Wehner reminds us why conservatives — particularly religious conservatives — have little in common with Ayn Rand: .... Ayn Rand was, of course, the founder of Objectivism – whose ethic, she said in a 1964 interview, holds that “man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his ...
  2 weeks ago

• Allah is not a personal name!

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 422
  Malaysian theologian Ng Kam Weng has published his response to nuisance remark made to claim exclusive use of the word Allah. Dave Chong has briefly and helpfully highlighted the phenomena: Get to know the history of Alkitab in these documents The Bible Translator , ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Democrats’ Dilemma: Their Own Trojan Horse Kicks Free

  
  Gloria Feldt's Heartfeldt Politics Blog — Authority: 110
  Democratic leaders have said that the Stupak amendments draconian new restrictions on abortion contained in the House health-reform bill will not appear in the final version.  Here why voters who value women’s health cannot sit back and accept such assurances. Reposted here courtesy of the Womens Media Center ...
  2 weeks ago

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