Thursday 11 September 2008, by: Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate has invigorated a lackluster campaign. The media can’t stop talking about her. Given McCain’s age and state of health (his medical file was nearly 1,200 pages long), [...]
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July 11, 2008
Man Sues Church Over Spiritual Fall
July 10, 2008 01:45 PM EST | AP: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A man says he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while worshipping. Now he wants Lakewind Church to pay $2.5 million for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering. Matt Lincoln says he is [...]
July 6, 2008
Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection
JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days. If such a messianic description [...]
June 30, 2008
Southern Baptist Scholar Links Spouse Abuse to Wives’ Refusal to Submit to Their Husbands
One reason that men abuse their wives is because women rebel against their husband’s God-given authority, a Southern Baptist scholar said Sunday in a Texas church. Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said women desire to have their own way instead of submitting to their husbands because [...]
May 14, 2008
Einstein Letter
AFP | May 14, 2008 Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday. The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made [...]
April 29, 2008
Faith of Our Fathers
Timothy Egan, New York Times, Opinion, April 23, 2008 Watching the polygamists in West Texas come into the sunlight of the 21st century has been jarring, making you feel like a voyeur of some weird historical episode. You see these 1870 Stepford wives with the braided buns and long dresses, these men with their low [...]
April 26, 2008
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats
Kevin Moloney for The New York Times, 4/26/08 FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending. But minutes into the talk, the officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, began to berate Specialist [...]
March 13, 2008
Bush’s Last Fans
Frank Schaeffer, Huffington Post, 3/13/08 President Bush was on my old stomping grounds this week. Back in the early 1980s I was also the keynote speaker at the NRB (National Religious Broadcaster’s) convention. According to the New York Times, (March 12, 2008): President Bush delivered a rousing defense of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
March 4, 2008
Moses High on Hallucinogens?
The bible is packed with drug-fuelled visions of miracles and according to a leading academic when Moses met God to receive the Ten Commandments he was on a hallucinogen-induced high.The theory, published this week in international philosophy journal Time and Mind, claims that key events of the Old Testament are actually records of visions by [...]
February 14, 2008
Saudis to Execute Woman Accused of Witchcraft
Donna Abu-Nasr| February 14, 2008 06:49 AM EST |Ap BEIRUT, Lebanon — A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom’s religious police who [...]
December 11, 2007
Theocratic Huckabee
Huckabee explained why he left pastoring for politics. “I didn’t get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.” He compared his entry into politics to [...]
December 10, 2007
Scientology Ban In Germany?
Today the German, Interior Minister calls it an unconstitutional organization and is moving to ban Scientology. Founded by science fiction writer , L. Ron Hubbard in 1956, Scientology has been described by some German citizens as sinister, dangerous and “a sect just after our money.” Other Scientology criticisms today in Germany included, it is “trying to [...]
December 10, 2007
$1.3 Million Church Pageant
“We’re having to compete against many theatrical things around the country, whether it’s MTV or the Rockettes or any show you might see on Broadway,” said the Rev. Mike Jefferies of the First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale. “We have made a conscious decision to pull out all the stops.” Oh, this is true humility…. [...]
November 27, 2007
So Long, Gideons
The one thing travelers could reliably count on in their hotel rooms: a Bible in the bedside table. But like many traditions, this one may be dying. What might be surprising to many Americans is that the Bible-free room isn’t a development just in hip New York City hotels. Across the country upscale [...]
October 24, 2007
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