Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Could China be the next great Christian nation?

Key Quote: "All of a sudden, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of small businessmen fellowships taking place, both within major corporations in China, and within homes."

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State seeks expanded powers over nation's children

Key Quote: "The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent's decision. A child's 'right to be heard' would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.

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More 'Obama is the Messiah' art

Key Quote: "An artist who planned to unveil a portrait of Barack Obama in a Christ-like pose with a crown of thorns upon his brow has announced he is canceling the event, due to 'overwhelming public outrage.'"

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Friday, April 24, 2009

The new American Foreign Policy towards Israel

Key Quote: "While President Bush was 'blindly' and 'mindlessly' supportive of Israel, President Obama may be less willing to give the Jewish state 'blank checks'"

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Christian response not 'politically-savvy' enough for Miss USA crown

Key Quote: "I knew at that moment after I answered the question, I knew, I was not going to win because of my answer, because I had spoken from my heart, from my beliefs and for my God. I wouldn't have answered it differently. The way I answered may have been offensive. With that question specifically, it's not about being politically correct. For me it was being biblically correct."

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European, American pastors arrested in Oslo

Key Quote: "The two men were not even preaching. Petar was holding a sign on a tall post and both men were conversing with the crowd. They were not using a bullhorn and their message was one of the need to be born again"

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No opposing point of view allowed in congress alongside Gore

Just like when we were kids, we'd plug our ears and shout: "LALALALALA!"

Key Quote: "Waxman knows there has been no 'global warming' for at least a decade. Waxman knows there has been seven and a half years' global cooling. Waxman knows that, in the words of the UK High Court judge who condemned Gore's mawkish movie as materially, seriously, serially inaccurate, 'the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view'"

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Global warming advocates marginalize people

The W.H.O. has taken a line from Homer Simpson: "No Fat Chicks".

Key Quote: "Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a tonne more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one. It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people."

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Friday, April 17, 2009

EU Directive means trouble for churches

A sign of things to come for Canada and the US?

Key Quote: "The directive could mean that religious schools would have to accept non-believers, and churches would have to baptize atheists and agnostics and permit homosexual "marriage" ceremonies."

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Afghan wives choose between sex and eating

This is what clerics offered as clarification to the western response to this sex law? How is this better? This is what happens when you try to codify a loving relationship in the law.

Key Quote: "Husbands should never force themselves on their wives and the law does not sanction that, but women are required to meet their husband's needs, the law states.If a woman says no, the man has the right not to feed her"

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

New Afghan law requires regular sex from wives

Your sex life stinks if the law is the only thing that can make your wife do it.

Key Quote: "Obedience, readiness for intercourse and not leaving the house without the permission of the husband are the duties of the wife. As long as the husband is not traveling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night."

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Obama announces that US is no longer a Christian nation

Key Quote: "[Obama] stated while on tour in the Islamic nation of Turkey that America is not a Christian nation, contradicting the belief of many of his predecessors and the writings of many founding fathers."

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Tony Blair's new mission involves bringing different faiths together

Key Quote: "If globalisation is a force pushing people together, does religion become a force pulling people apart?"

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Quebec dad loses appeal in grounding case

Key Quote: "The father caught her chatting on websites he had blocked, and alleged his daughter was posting 'inappropriate pictures' of herself online."

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Monday, April 6, 2009

UK Government publication portrays Christians as Islamophobes

Key Quote: "It is a clumsy caricature, symptomatic of a culture which says it is OK to bully Christians in the name of diversity."

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Step 1: The death of privacy

Key Quote: "Details of user e-mails and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive."

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Friday, April 3, 2009

Robot Adam and Eve

Did my wife write this article?

Key Quote: "Adam is a prototype," says Prof King. "Eve is better designed and more elegant."

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

UN passes resolution on religious defamation

Key Quote: "The 47-member Human Rights Council has drawn criticism for reflecting mainly the interests of Islamic and African countries, which when voting together can control its agenda."

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