All Posts Tagged With: "Religion"
Obama Makes Excuse For Statements About Pennsylvanians
Obama Explaining What People Are Like In Small Towns In Pennsylvania
Obama up-date:
Barack Obama didn’t back off his argument that blue collar, small town Pennsylvanians are bitter over their economic lot in life — but acknowledged that he could have phrased it more artfully.
“When you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on,” he said [...]
The Shi’ite ritual of “Ashura”, Warning - Blood
The Shi’ite ritual of Ashura shows young boys beating themselves on the back with knives connected to chains. The ritual has been banned in most parts of the Muslim/Islamic world. (so says the sites I visited)
This is not a video for everyone.
There is a complete explanation of the origins of the ritual and the reason [...]
Vatican Lists New Sins In Time for New York Governor Spitzer
I think all of us can get in enough trouble with the old sins.
Jeremiah
USA Today
A Vatican official has listed drugs, pollution, genetic manipulations as well as social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behavior.
Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti said in an interview published Sunday by the Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, that known sins increasingly [...]
Archbishop of Canterbury Faces Calls to Quit Over Sharia Uproar
The Archbishop of Canterbury was facing a crisis of confidence in his leadership yesterday after calling for parts of Islamic law, or Sharia, to be introduced into Britain.
Fox News
Amid growing calls for his resignation, including from members of the General Synod of the Church of England, Dr. Rowan Williams hastily backtracked, claiming he had [...]
BBC Explains: Sharia Law
Sharia Law Is Nothing To Fear
by way of Sweetness & Light
BBC News
What is Sharia?
Sharia law is Islam’s legal system. It is derived from both the Koran, as the word of God, and the example of the life of the prophet Mohammed.
But Sharia differs in one very important and significant way to the legal traditions [...]
Why Don’t Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them?
Liberalism can’t abide conservative evangelicals.
by James Q. Wilson
City Journal
In the United States, the two groups that most ardently support Israel are Jews and evangelical and fundamentalist Christians. Jewish support is easy to explain, but why should certain Christians, most of them politically quite conservative, be so devoted to Israel? There is a second puzzle: despite [...]
Islam’s Advice
By Way Of: Instapundit
Islam’s Advice - Bloody Ritual, Modern Meaning
About Islam’s Advance
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Political Correctness & The Archbishop of Canterbury
Otherwise Known As Laws against “Blasphemy”
Jules Crittenden.com
Times of London Article
Archbishop of Canterbury pushes law vs. “thoughtless and cruel” speech. Times of London:
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has called for new laws to protect religious sensibilities that would punish “thoughtless and cruel” styles of speaking.
The Article
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