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• MUST-READ: Are marriage and family compatible with single-payer health care?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 522
  What this post is really about is whether Christians should support government takeover of health care, education, energy production, etc. Is there a hidden price for “free” health care, “free” education and “green” energy? Is big-government socialism compatible with religious liberty? Please read this ...
  5 hours ago

• Islam is filling Europe’s faith void, says RC leader

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 582
  Europe faces Islamisation because it has denied its Christian roots, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague has warned.Cardinal Miloslav Vlk said Europe will “pay dear” for having left its spiritual foundations, and said that it was now in the last period when a chance remained to do something about it.Cardinal ...
  6 hours ago

• Italian High Court Defends Crucifixes, National Sovereignty against European Human Rights Court

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 156
  By Hilary White, LifeSite News Italy’s Constitutional Court has issued a ruling asserting the supremacy of Italian law and custom over the orders of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In November, an order that all crucifixes must be removed from Italian state schools from the Strasbourg-based ECHR caused ...
  17 hours ago

• The American Library Association’s gay agenda

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 522
  Story from NewsBusters . Excerpt: “Authentic literature” is the term that has been adopted by the ALA to describe books with “literary merit.” It sounds harmless enough – just saying “authentic literature” evokes images of musty catalog cards and spinster librarians. In reality, however, it’s a ...
  21 hours ago

• Secularism and Britt Hume

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 436
  The Big Hollywood blogger and actor Adam Baldwin, recently of the television series Chuck and Firefly , has taken up his virtual pen to defend Britt Hume from those who have criticized him for suggesting that Tiger Woods should consider Christianity in his time of crisis. Hume made the statement on Fox News ...
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• Russian Orthodox Church opens seminary in France

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 134
  H/T: Byzantine, TXThe Russian Orthodox Church has opened its first seminary outside the former Soviet Union – in a small French town outside Paris. The institution is starting modestly but has big ambitions: to serve Russia’s growing diaspora and foster closer ties between Eastern and Western Christian churches.It ...
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• PM says Christians should not leave faith at the door

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 582
  Prime Minister Gordon Brown has admitted ahead of the general election that Christian engagement in politics is beneficial for building a better society.In a video released this week, Mr Brown said the public square was more than just a market place and that it could not be stripped of values.“I don’t subscribe to ...
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• Moving Forward from the Dictators’ Mess

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 441
  Bangladesh SC Says No to Religion-based Political PartiesThe Daily Star 06 Jan 2010Religion-based political parties of the country will be banned, said the law minister on Monday.But the words ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim’ and state religion Islam will remain in force in the constitution, said the minister.Law ...
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• Is the World Real?

  
  Hallowed Secularism — Authority: 118
  1/5/2009—Defenders of religion, even atheists like myself, often face the criticism that religion is unreal and thus untrue. God does not exist and neither do any other supernatural entities. For that matter, spiritual experiences in general are derided as purely subjective. A strictly materialist account of the ...
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• Holy Sh*t

  
  Harry's Place — Authority: 655
  Ireland has a new piece of legislation that will be making British Islamists green with envy: The new law makes it an offence to publish or “utter” material deemed “grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial ...
  2 days ago

• The Victory of Socialism?

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 156
  By Dr Michael Miller, from LifeSite News Friedrich Engels saw three major obstacles to the socialist vision: “private property, religion and this present form of marriage” (clip)  I’m not suggesting that Americans or Europeans live in socialist states. That would trivialize the suffering of those who ...
  2 days ago

• Bangladesh bans religion in politics. B…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 156
  Bangladesh bans religion in politics. Bangladesh’s dozens of Islamic political parties must drop Islam from their name and stop using religion when on the campaign trail following a court ruling, the country’s law minister said Monday. The Supreme Court on Sunday upheld an earlier ruling by the High Court from ...
  2 days ago

• Pope Calls on Believers to Stand up in the Face of Persecution

  
  Free Christian Press — Authority: 133
  ROME (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since his election in 2005, Pope Benedict has called for religious leaders to combat the growth of the “dictatorship of relativism” and aggressive anti-Christian secularism, and over the Christmas holidays he and several prominent churchmen again took up the theme.On December 26, the ...
  2 days ago

• Theology for Atheists

  
  Killing the Buddha — Authority: 559
  At the Guardian today, I’ve got a short bit about secular, mainly Continental philosophers who, in recent years, have turned to theology:[Slavoj Zizek] is one of several leading thinkers in recent years who, though coming out of a deeply secular and often-Marxist bent, have made a turn toward theology. In 1997, ...
  3 days ago

• The study of special experiences: an interview with Ann Taves

  
  The Immanent Frame — Authority: 115
  Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and, this year, is serving as president of the American Academy of Religion. After distinguishing herself as a historian, she has recently turned her attention to theoretical reflection. Her latest book, Religious Experience ...
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• Top Ten Anti-Christian Attacks in 2009

  
  SUNLIT UPLANDS — Authority: 136
  T he Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) has released its list of the top ten incidents of anti-Christian defamation, bigotry and discrimination in the US from last year. The list was selected by the subscribers to CADCs e-mail list and was selected from a list of twenty of CADCs top stories from 2009. ...
  3 days ago

• [2144] Of libertarian position on the Allah controversy

  
  the __earthinc — Authority: 124
  I have nothing clever to say with respect to the controversy involving the usage of the term Allah by Christians in Malaysia (specifically, Catholic Christians I suppose) and objection raised by considerable number of Muslims there. [1] What I have to say is just some plain old consequences arising from my ...
  3 days ago

• HIM Reza Pahlavi II wants UN probe in Iran

  
  Aryamehr — Authority: 112
  AP Interview: Shahs Son Wants UN Probe in Iran By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 31, 2009 PARIS (AP) -- The son of the deposed shah of Iran urged nations worldwide on Thursday to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran to protest a relentless government crackdown on opposition demonstrators that resulted ...
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• Post-Christendom Church

  
  Between — Authority: 127
  Visitors from the East came looking for Jesus in a palace but found him in a manger. They looked for him at the heart of privileges won through personal power but found him in a place of poverty and dispossession. The visitors from the East looked for a King according to their understanding of kingship but only found ...
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• Fear and loathing in Switzerland

  
  Something like life — Authority: 117
  We will be talking about 3 idiots but first lets see what is my problem with Swiss minaret ban. Now all crypto Hindu fascists are more or less gloating over the ban and I think thats wrong. Before I state my problem though I think it should not be controversial to admit that this ban is motivated by an apprehension of ...
  4 days ago

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