Angels: An Ancient Tradition Revived

11-24-2011 • arclein

In late antiquity, the identity of angels was much broader than what it is now: some Christians spoke of Christ as an angel, or suggested that Christian ascetic monks who renounced family, food, drink and sex and lived out in the desert were really a

Polygamy Not Protected by Religious Freedom in Canada

11-24-2011 • arclein

To the first question, Bauman said the law does indeed violate the freedom-of-religion rights of Bountiful residents, but he said the harms to women and children outweigh those rights.

Mystery of Dead Sea Scroll Authors Possibly Solved

11-22-2011 • LiveScience

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the religious texts had been stored. Scholars are divide

Islamic Persecution of Christians

11-22-2011 • arclein

ore damning evidence continues to emerge: not only did Egypt’s military plan to massacre Christians to teach them a “lesson” never to protest again, but “death squads” were deployed up buildings the night before to snipe at protesters. Instead of tr

Muslim Gays in Malaysia Face Extra Punishment Under Sharia

11-17-2011 • International Business Times

The Malaysian states of Penang and Malacca are considering even stricter laws against the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender communities, allowing them the authority to punish "offenders" twice.

U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey

11-11-2011 • pewforum.org

Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading

ALL SAINTS DAY! MEMORIAL DAY for FOLLOWERS of CHRIST JESUS!

11012011 • www.varight.com

Is Halloween over? Every time zone covered? PHEW! I am always glad that’s over. Today is All Saints Day.

It is time to stop Atheists from infringing on our religious rights

10-27-2011 • The Examiner

An Atheist and his group have filed a complaint with an Alabama school district because one of the school's football teams says a prayer before each game invoking Jesus' name. This article looks at the real First Amendment language and shows why "

DOJ Says Feds Can Tell Church Who Its Ministers Will Be

10-13-2011 • visiontoamerica.org

In yet another stunning attack on freedom of religion, President Barack Obama’s Justice Department asked the Supreme Court last week to give the federal government the power to tell a church who its ministers will be.

Google’s Dead Sea Scrolls project:

09-28-2011 • www.wired.com

why putting parchment & papyrus in the cloud matters to civilization - VIDEO

Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad

09-27-2011 • NY Times

Abu Elias sat beneath the towering stairs leading from the Convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya, a church high up in the mountains outside Damascus, where Christians have worshiped for 1,400 years. “We are all scared of what will come next,” he said, turn

Stop the Islamization of America

09-20-2011 • arclein

courtrooms, the Internet, the workplace, the grocery store, the neighborhoods, and on the airwaves. That is the stealth jihad, the hidden war. And it is to teaching you how to fight that war—where and how and on what grounds—that this book is dedicat

Video: Is "The bankers as the enemy of humanity" a veiled anti-semitic rant?

08-16-2011 • The Political Commentator

Throughout recorded history Jews have at times been derisively called "The Bankers"? This video rant against "The Bankers" contains threats of retribution against those people who the narrator says have brought the global economy to the point

Thye Physical Soul

08-03-2011 • arclein

An immediate result of these conjectures is that it allows us to re interpret a lot of ancient scripture. Noah’s report is a description of a settlement group sent back to establish agriculture after the collapse of the Ice Age had lifted sea levels

Extremely Unctuous

07-12-2011 • TruthDig.com

Did the “Jesus rifles” just happen by accident? Remember the 800,000 high-powered rifle sights engraved with Bible codes proclaiming “Jesus as the light of the world” and other quotes that our troops unwittingly carried into battle...

My Jesus is Bigger than Your Jesus: Giant statue of Jesus opens in Peru to fireworks and debate

07-02-2011 • Metro, UK

Peruvian President Alan Garcia inaugurated the statue, which is similar to Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer, despite opposition from the mayor of Peru's capital. The Christ of the Pacific is 72 feet (22 metres) high and stands atop a 49-f

My Faith: Why I don't sing the 'Star Spangled Banner'

06-27-2011 • by Mark Schloneger (for CNN)

I choose to belong to a strange tribe. Goshen College, my alma mater, made national news this month when its board of directors decided that the “Star Spangled Banner” would not be played before athletic events. As could be expected, the decision was

DC Flights Come to Screeching Halt After Woman Claims to Receive a Message from God

06-21-2011 • The Blaze

The grounding of flights Sunday at Reagan National Airport was prompted by a woman who told an airport worker that there was a bomb aboard an airplane – a warning she later said she had received in a message from God.

Yale and anti-Semitism were joined at the hip (Cartoon)

06-17-2011 • The Political Commentator

Yale to end its program (YIISA) on the study of anti-Semitism! In the article "Money and fear makes the academic world go 'round ... !" the reasoning for the ending of the Yale University program called the Yale Initiative for the Interdiscipli

Freedom of Religion Mocked

06-13-2011 • arclein

We began this study in 2007, with a careful and rigorous methodological design. The purpose was to measure sharia-adherence (or Islamic legal orthodoxy) among worshippers and their imams at U.S. mosques (i.e., the independent variable) and to meas

Christians must reject Ayn Rand, faith-based group tells Raw Story

06-11-2011 • http://www.rawstory.com/

During this time of financial crisis and talk of severe austerity measures in nearly every statehouse across the nation, the philosophy of author Ayn Rand has become a rallying cry for many leading Republicans.

Fight For the Revolution Christian T-SHIRT

06-11-2011 • www.dixiecotton.com

Ephesians 6:12 - New International Version (NIV) - 12) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly re

Calvin Confronts the Chinese Marxist Dictatorship

06-11-2011 • arclein

In the month of May, government forces arrested all those who attended church and kept core leaders under house arrest. This is the eighth week the church has defied China’s illegality of non-state-controlled churches. (Video Source: NTDTV) Ba

Vatican Front Runs 2012 ET Disclosure

05-27-2011 • arclein

As this video makes clear, the Vatican is getting in front of this inevitable disclosure cycle. Thus we can make a prediction. That full disclosure of man’s place in the alien universe will be made during 2012. It is too good of an opportunity to