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-Did 9/11 Change Attitudes About Religion?

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

Did the 9/11/01 attacks end up changing some of our attitudes about religion? Here’s a recent article from CNN by John Blake that claims it did make some changes in how Americans perceived religion: Four ways 9/11 changed America’s attitude toward religion There are two observations in this article that I agree with whole heartedly. [...]

-Independence Day: God Was There from the Very Beginning

Monday, July 4th, 2011

                                                          (Image via Wikipedia) 235 years ago today a message was confirmed by representatives of 13 states proclaiming their freedom, a freedom that was considered to be derived from God: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,  that [...]

-Young American Muslim: "I am a traitor to America because my religion requires me to be.”

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

(Image via Wikipedia) Here’s a quote from an al Qaeda magazine interview of  24 year old American citizen Samir Khan who was born in Saudi Arabia, grew up in Queens NY, and use to live in North Carolina: "I am proud to be a traitor to America.” "I am a traitor to America because my [...]

-Ground Zero Mosque: The Jewish Response?

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

(Image by david_shankbone via Flickr) There are over a million Jews living in NY City and the Jewish community was particularly affected by the 9/11 attacks and even salt has been poured on with the popular Arab urban legend/conspiracy theory that blames it all on them or the Israelis. So you would expect that the [...]

-Should Christians Participate in “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

(Image via Wikipedia) Today (May 20,2010) was the day set aside by the famous Facebook page to be the official “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”. Should Christians participate in this activity? No. Why? Because Jesus taught his followers the Golden Rule. Many times lately Christians have been on the receiving end of offensive assaults on our [...]

-Top 10 Anti-Christian Acts of 2009?

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

According to the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission the following are the Top Ten Anti-Christian Acts of 2009 in the US: 10. Pro-life Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye of Oakland, CA was jailed for exercising peaceful, pro-life speech. 9. Rev. Fred Winters was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois. 8. HBO’s program “Curb Your Enthusiasm” [...]

-UK: Happy Chanukah! The State Will Now Decide Who is a Jew?

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

(UK Supreme Court by d-notice via Flickr) A dangerous precedent has been set by the British Supreme Court in their ruling that the Jewish Free School admission policies are racially discriminatory and in violation of 1976 Race Relations Act. The JFS currently admits students that are considered Jewish based upon 3,500 year-old Orthodox Jewish criteria [...]

-Re: The ‘Manhattan Declaration’: A Call of Christian Conscience

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Over 151 Christian leaders from all sorts of different denominations and organizations have signed a document called the ‘Manhattan Declaration’ which is a call for Christians to stand together on a number of major moral issues that face America. The following three points summarize the key areas addressed by the document : 1. The sanctity [...]