VIDEO – Pat Robertson Gives Religion A Bad Name With His Disaster Comments – CNN
Arianna Huffington joined The Nation’s Ari Melber and former evangelist Frank Schaeffer on The Joy Behar Show Thursday. The panel weighed in on evangelist Pat…
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January 2010
Pat Robertson, the Earthquake in Haiti, and the Righteousness of God
In 1999, comedian George Carlin wrote, “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you…
‘Aye, those be slighting words against the Lord:’ Ireland’s blasphemy law (National Post)
EXCERPT: On the first day of 2010 (note: not 1310), Ireland’s new blasphemy law came into effect, making statements about the folly of religion…
Pope Benedict: “the Great Consolidator” (American Spectator)
EXCERPT from the Article by Jeremy Lott: That makes him a conservative but a radical one. The easiest way to change a church is…
December 2009
Report says 225,000 Haiti children work as slaves (AP)
From http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/latinamerica/6783415.html EXCERPT: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti’s cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more…
Dr. Adrian Westney Passes Away
Dr. Adrian Theophilus Westney passed away at the age of 82 on December 14, 2009 after having served the Seventh-day Adventist Church…
Jan Paulsen on Freedon
Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church discusses freedom as a foundational value for human dignity.
Faith, Freedom, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Liberty Magazine)
By David A. Pendleton – Ever since President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, the chattering classes have speculated…
Michigan Church Has the Right to Help Poor People, ACLU Tells Court (ACLU Release)
"Congress enacted the Religious Land Use Act to protect the fundamental right of freedom of religion," said Dan Korobkin, an ACLU of Michigan staff…
China and a Canadian Newspaper call for worldwide one-child policy
This comes from the left end of the political spectrum and presents what may simply be rhetorical posturing, or a harbinger of the next…