Key Quote: "As someone who is not a fundamentalist (and who doesn't believe the Bible is a science textbook), it is discouraging to see reporters endlessly recycle caricatures rather than genuinely try to understand the diverse viewpoints of those raising questions about modern Darwinism."
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
German Christians seek asylum in the US
Key Quote: "When the Romeikes wouldn't comply with repeated orders to send the children to school, police came to their home one October morning in 2006 and took the children, crying and upset, to school."
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Global economic crisis leads to talk of common currency
Key Quote: "A UN panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to stimulate their economies."
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Global currency back on the agenda
Key Quote: "Canadian economist and Nobel-prize winning professor Robert Mundell...is pushing for a one-world currency"
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Webster's dictionary redefines marriage
Key Quote: "The new definition references 'marriage' as the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife. But the definition also includes "the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage."
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CANADA: Cabinet minister's religious beliefs under scrutiny
Key Quote: "The Globe and CBC would never pull that stunt with, say, Gurbax Malhi, a Sikh MP, or Irwin Cotler, a Jewish MP. They wouldn't accuse them of hijacking government for their faith; they wouldn't accuse them of hidden loyalties. But anti-Christian bigotry is the last acceptable bigotry."
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Another chaplain quits over 'God' restrictions
Here's the part I thought was strange...
Key Quote: "None of the six other chaplains objected to the ban on God's name, she said."
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Key Quote: "None of the six other chaplains objected to the ban on God's name, she said."
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Apologize for sharing Jesus or no diploma
Key Quote: "Corder said officials withheld her diploma until she issued an apology, and the school 'continues to portray her as a student who engaged in improper conduct because she mentioned Jesus Christ during her speech.'"
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
US: Judge blocks mom from homeschooling
Key Quote: "I have never seen such injustice and such a direct attack against homeschool. This judge clearly took personal issue with Venessa's stance on education and faith, even though her children are doing great. If her right to homeschool can be taken away so easily, what will this mean for homeschoolers state wide, or even nationally?"
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Chaplain quits over generic prayers
Key Quote: "A former chaplain with the Virginia State Police says he had no choice but to step down after a new policy took effect requiring generic prayers at department events."
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Catholic church governance called into question in Conneticut
Where's the separation of church and state when you need it?
Key Quote: "The real purpose of this bill is payback to the bishops and pastors of the Roman Catholic Church in Connecticut for opposing gay marriage."
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Key Quote: "The real purpose of this bill is payback to the bishops and pastors of the Roman Catholic Church in Connecticut for opposing gay marriage."
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Digital gold solution to economic crisis?
Key Quote: "Steil has consistently argued that the dollar as a nation-state currency is outmoded, and that a regional currency should replace the dollar on the way to a one-world currency."
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Church shooter kills pastor during sermon
Key Quote: "It just seemed a lot out of place for someone to be walking to the front to take a seat at that point in the service."
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Western Evangelical Christianity is crumbling
Key Quote: "Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants."
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Monday, March 9, 2009
School textbooks go easy on Islam
Key Quote: "Islam has a privileged position. It's not critiqued or criticized or qualified, whereas Judaism and Christianity are."
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Brits forgetting WWII history
Key Quote: "Auschwitz is the name of a type of beer or a religious festival, some British schoolchildren believe."
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Brits open the door to Shari'ah law
Key Quote: "The authority given to Shari'ah scholars by financial institutions and the plans announced by the Authorities to appoint such clerics to advise them shows just how far adrift we have sailed as a nation from tolerance, via multiculturalism to accommodation and soon to subjugation."
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Christian schools in Illinois banned from praying before games
Key Quote: "The way the rule reads it's completely prohibitive so even if two Christian schools were playing each other, and even if both wanted to have the prayers and always had the prayers, they still wouldn't be able to do so"
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
"God" censored from student posters
So, they can promote a Christian prayer event, but they can't mention "God"...
Key Quote: "Administrators at Lakeview Elementary School in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., told parents that the posters, promoting the See You at the Pole student prayer event, mentioned 'God' and are therefore precluded by school board policy and prohibited in the hallways as inappropriate."
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Key Quote: "Administrators at Lakeview Elementary School in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., told parents that the posters, promoting the See You at the Pole student prayer event, mentioned 'God' and are therefore precluded by school board policy and prohibited in the hallways as inappropriate."
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Christian leaders don't need to be Christian
Yeah. I had to read it twice too.
Key Quote: "A university in Ohio has threatened the future of a campus Bible organization for requiring voting members and office holders be Christian."
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Key Quote: "A university in Ohio has threatened the future of a campus Bible organization for requiring voting members and office holders be Christian."
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
UN resolution would silence Muslim critics
Key Quote: "It is the so-called mainstream Muslims, grouped in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, who are now demanding through the agency of the United Nations that Islam not only be allowed to make absolutist claims but that it also be officially shielded from any criticism of itself."
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Vatican steps-up with a Darwin love-in
Key Quote: "Yet as recently as 2006 a leading Catholic Cardinal, Christoff Schoenborn, of Vienna, a former student and friend of Pope Benedict XVI caused controversy by saying that Darwin's theory of natural selection was incompatible with Christian belief."
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Eugenics returns in the form of designer babies
Key Quote: "In letting parents decide what traits their kids have, doctors will examine the genetic makeup of embryos created in the lab and implant the ones that have the best chance of giving mom and dad what they want."
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