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Archive for May, 2011

-End of the World Recap

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

    (Getty Images via @daylife) Today while I was at my grandson’s little league game I over heard several parents talking about Camping’s unfortunate prediction of the end of days. They were laughing about it and were putting together plans for a ‘Rapture party’ tonight. Then this evening I turned on the TV just in [...]

-The Fallacious May 21, 2011 ‘World is Ending’ Debacle

Friday, May 20th, 2011

                                    (Harold Camping via Wikipedia) This is like watching an accident about to happen and not being able to do anything to stop it. You may have seen a billboard or read the entire back page ad in USA Today like I did, or listened to the frantic radio warning that I just listened to [...]

-Long Lasting Marriages on the Rise in America

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

There is popular notion that more marriages in America end in divorce than stay together. This has never been true when it comes to first marriages. It is those who are repeatedly in and out of marital commitments that bring down the percentages and create a perception that more marriages fail than not in the [...]

-Scholar: China Notices Link Between Christianity and Economic Success?

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

                                          (Flag of China via Wikipedia) The Chinese Communist authorities are all about controlling religion in their country particularly Christianity. They have noted the role that Christianity played in bringing down the Berlin Wall, Communist Poland,  and the Romanian despot and would like to avoid that outcome. However, one scholar says that the rulers have [...]

-Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Complaint Against ‘So help me God’ in Presidential Oath

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

On Monday (5/16), the Supreme Court of the USA refused to hear an appeal from Michael Newdow who brought a complaint against the traditional reference to God (“So help me God”) in the Presidential Oath of office. Newdow originally sued to stop Barack Obama from using the traditional oath and lost. He wanted to overturn [...]

-Stephen Hawking: Heaven is a ‘fairy story’

Monday, May 16th, 2011

     (Getty Images via @daylife) British scientist Stephen Hawking who is considered one of the smartest people in the world has come out and called heaven a "fairy story" for people afraid of the dark. In an interview with The Guardian (UK Newspaper ) on Monday, Hawking said that his views were affected and influenced [...]

-Jesus, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and Homosexuality Vs. Paul?

Monday, May 16th, 2011

                                         (Image via Wikipedia) The Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) recently passed an amendment to its Book of Order that will probably open the door to the ordination of practicing homosexuals in that denomination. Some in the PCUSA have declared that since Jesus never spoke specifically on the subject it is possible to be in complete submission [...]