Archive for October, 2011
Monday, October 31st, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) Happy Halloween –Happy Reformation Day! I know. October 31st is known for witches, goblins, pumpkins, and trick or treat. It is amazing to me how in the last 20 years or so Halloween has gone from a one night ‘celebration’ to become an entire season of it’s own with parties and [...]
Filed under: American Church, Halloweeen, Reformation, Revival
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
(Image by ukhomeoffice via Flickr) British cabinet minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi says that British society has increasingly become far too intolerant of religious views and expressions: “We need to create a country in which people can be unashamedly proud of their faith – where they don’t feel that they have to leave religion at [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Politics & Religion, -UK, Christianity, Culture & Religion, Secularism, Toleration
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
Mormonism is center stage again with Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman running for President in 2012. I have seen one article after another talking about why evangelicals should not be voting for a Mormon. A poll of evangelical Christians in June showed that at least 34% said that they would not vote for a Mormon [...]
Filed under: -Mormonism, -Politics & Religion, Culture & Religion, Evangelical Christians, USA
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) Muslims students at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC have lodged an official complaint of discrimination against the private Christian university. Their major complain revolves around not having an official prayer room on campus and all of the Christian symbols including crucifixes in the classrooms which they find offensive. [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Education, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, -Schools, American Muslims, Catholic, Culture & Religion, Discrimination, Islam, Lawsuits
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ began with the revolt in Tunisia. The secularists got their vote but on Monday it was the Islamist party which commanded the majority and will lead the Assembly in writing a new constitution for the North African Muslim country. Now it appears certain with an Islamist victory that [...]
Filed under: -Sharia Law, Islamist Radicals, Middle East, Tunisia
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) A Federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to allow freedom of religious expression at national cemeteries. A lawsuit had been filed against a DVA policy that had resulted in restricting prayers and references to ‘God’ and “Jesus” during services at Houston National cemetery. We posted about this [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Politics & Religion, Court Decisions, Culture & Religion, Lawsuits, Secularism, USA
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
(Image by French P M’s Office via Flickr) Col. Gaddafi is gone, now we will see if all of the efforts in the West to seal his doom were worth it. The first thing the new transitional leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, chose to do was to proclaim that Islamic Sharia law would be the basis [...]
Filed under: -Sharia Law, Islamist Radicals, Libya
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