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Hell is a slander against God, and against the victims of evil
Via: bob-nelson
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
The money-changers had it coming because, Jesus said, they had turned a house of prayer into a den of thieves. They were profiting from others’ poverty and ripping off the poor — just the sort of...
YOGA DOES NOT MAKE INMATES GAY, SAYS RUSSIAN PRISON CHIEF AS CLASSES ARE REINSTATED
Via: john-russell
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Russian prison authorities have reinstated yoga for inmates after dismissing a claim by a religious scholar that the practice could make them gay. Both a Moscow pre-trial detention center for...
‘I cut people,’ a megachurch pastor threatened as she preached. Her target? The local newspaper.
Via: hal-a-lujah
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Hope Carpenter was met with resounding applause before her monologue at Relentless Church in Greenville, S.C., on Sunday. The crowd was excited about their guest pastor — after all, she’d led the...
Justice Neil Gorsuch says no-one can sue to stop the government from establishing religion
Via: don-overton
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Religion & Ethics
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11 Comments
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6 years ago
Theocrat Gorsuch says no American can challenge a Christian religious display on government property. One inherent danger of allowing a religious minority to install a puppet controlled by...
Religious Right Radio Show Host Sympathizes With New Zealand Shooter
Via: don-overton
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Religion & Ethics
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64 Comments
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6 years ago
After last week’s horrific murder of 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, I knew that it would only be a matter of time before someone in the Religious Right said something...
White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian
Via: don-overton
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Religion & Ethics
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1 Comments
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6 years ago
After my recent post on the terror attack in New Zealand , several Christians reached out to Religion Dispatches and directly to me asking why I conflated white terrorism with...
If the Bible condones slavery, how did anti-slavery proponents use the Bible to justify their position? [II]
Via: cb
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Religion & Ethics
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390 Comments
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6 years ago
[This topic was so interesting and me so busy that I could not reply to all the comments on the topic before the other article was moderater closed.] Disclaimer: This article is an answer from a...
Phil Robertson: 10 lies the devil is using to 'destroy' America
Via: donald-trump-fan1
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Religion & Ethics
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127 Comments
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6 years ago
“Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson has come out with a new book that aims to “blow the lid off the lies that are destroying” America. The conservative Christian reality TV star spoke with The...
Here are Evangelical Christianity’s 10 biggest gaslighting tactics
Via: don-overton
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Religion & Ethics
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2 Comments
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6 years ago
Some stuff people tell you messes with your head if you buy into it. Maybe it’s self-contradictory. Maybe it doesn’t line up with what you know about yourself or the world around you. Maybe it...
The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point
Via: don-overton
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Religion & Ethics
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3 Comments
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6 years ago
One mai nstay of our current political discourse is the injudicious use of the term “hypocrisy” to call out one’s political opponents. Charges of hypocrisy are ubiquitous across the political...
A Terrifying Number Of Trump Supporters Believe God Made Him President
Via: don-overton
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Religion & Ethics
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203 Comments
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6 years ago
According to a brand new Fox News poll , 55 percent of white Evangelical Christians – one of Trump’s strongest voting blocs – believe God wanted this president to beat Hillary Clinton in the...
Past and Future - The Hope of the High Holy Day Season
By: enoch
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Religion & Ethics
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13 Comments
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6 years ago
As with all great religious heritages there is a natural flow to the Jewish calendar. The days from Rosh Ha Shanah (Birthday of the World) to Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) are known as Yomim Ha...
New York reveals its blood lust for baby killing
Via: donald-trump-fan1
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Religion & Ethics
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59 Comments
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6 years ago
Today, in New York, a perfectly viable baby of nine months, ready to be born at any minute, can be slaughtered by the will of the mother. That is blood lust. It is cruel. It is unwarranted. It is...
Indian Woman Who Entered Forbidden Temple Says Her Family Assaulted and Disowned Her When She Returned Home
Via: johnrussell
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Religion & Ethics
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2 Comments
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6 years ago
Indian Woman Who Entered Forbidden Temple Says Her Family Assaulted and Disowned Her When She Returned Home One of the two women who made history in India earlier this month by becoming...
Six Facts About Abortion to Counter March for Life’s Junk Science
Via: don-overton
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Religion & Ethics
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281 Comments
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6 years ago
The 46th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., has adopted “Unique from Day One” as its theme, an apparent declaration of the extreme anti-choice position that life begins at conception. The...