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Is This What Democrats Want For Our Future?
https://townhall.com/columnists/austinhill/2011/12/11/is_this_what_democrats_want_for_our_future
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Hasan’s murderous behavior – this, despite the fact that Hasan himself claimed that he was acting in accordance with his religion.…
The Surprising Truth About Obama's 'War on Religion'
https://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2011/12/11/the_surprising_truth_about_obamas_war_on_religion
https://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2011/12/11/the_surprising_truth_about_obamas_war_on_religion
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Rick Perry has a new TV spot accusing President Obama of waging "war on religion." … But here's the surprise: Perry has a point.The First Amendment forbids any law "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion. … Under its policy, the free exercise of religion ends where health insurance coverage begins.Even more extreme is its position on a…
A Word from The Word for the Presidential Hopefuls
https://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2011/12/10/a_word_from_the_word_for_the_presidential_hopefuls
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United States, but the reality is that entire argument is moot because Romney has many more problems as a candidate beyond his religion … Romney’s religion isn’t so much a problem as it is his lack of sincerity as a candidate. … People just don’t trust him, and if they don’t trust you it doesn’t matter what your religion is.…
FIRST-PERSON: Don't like nativity scenes? Here's an idea
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/09/firstperson_dont_like_nativity_scenes_heres_an_idea
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Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions or prefer one religion over another. … The government cannot enact a law that says you must give allegiance to a specific religion. … a law respecting an establishment of religion.…
CULTURE DIGEST: Jimmy Carter convenes New Baptist Covenant II
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/09/culture_digest_jimmy_carter_convenes_new_baptist_covenant_ii
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Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion & Democracy, noted that only about 250 people attended the conference Nov. 17-19 … "Our research shows just how tightly linked religion and family are in U.S. society -- so much so that even some of society's least … religious people find religion to be important in their private lives," Elaine Howard Ecklund, a Rice sociologist and coauthor of…
The Shadow over Osawatomie: Obama versus Lincoln
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2011/12/09/the_shadow_over_osawatomie_obama_versus_lincoln
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He tells his rich California donors about bitter middle class Americans who cling to their guns and religion.…
Eric Holder Impeached is a Good First Start
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/12/09/what_do_you_call_2000_holders_impeached_a_good_first_start
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Because here’s our thing: Some of us hicks out here in the countryside, in flyover country clinging to our guns and our religion, are…
FIRST-PERSON: Church on Christmas morning? Of course
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/08/firstperson_church_on_christmas_morning_of_course
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Peter Beck serves as an assistant professor of religion at Charleston Southern University in Charleston, S.C.…
Nativity's potential removal sparks outcry
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/08/nativitys_potential_removal_sparks_outcry
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), at the behest of an anonymous Henderson County resident, sent a letter to county officials … relied on a 1989 Supreme Court case argued by the ACLU as the basis for their complaint of an unconstitutional endorsement of religion…
WEEK OF PRAYER: China's many factories could provide a channel for the Gospel
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Wu, like most migrants, scoffs at the thought of any type of religion -- her parents' Buddhist beliefs or any other. … "I think the men and women here are more open about greed and lust because they don't have religion," the 72-year-old American says … The American is also correct about religion.…
Americans' view of Southern Baptists studied
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/07/americans_view_of_southern_baptists_studied
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But on the other, most people don't seem to be concerned either way because there is a level of indifference to denominations or religion…
Prostitute made new in Rio de Janeiro
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/07/prostitute_made_new_in_rio_de_janeiro
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Candomblé is an Afro-spiritist religion popular in Brazil; Viviane's mother had been deeply involved in it at the time of her death…
Perry: I'm Not Ashamed to Admit I'm a Christian
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/12/07/perry_im_not_ashamed_to_admit_im_a_christian
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The release makes Perry the first candidate to release an ad directly attacking Obama and the Left for their war on religion. … As President, I'll end Obama's war on religion. And I'll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage.…
For Arab Christians, a wintry 'spring'
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2011/12/07/for_arab_christians_a_wintry_spring
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"Such tolerance is particularly important when it comes to religion," Obama declared last May – so important that America would defend…
Loathing Conservative Christian Candidates
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2011/12/07/loathing_conservative_christian_candidates
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It's only "controversial" when you oppose it.Like Bachmann, Rick Perry has been punished for expressing his religion on the campaign … Democrats are the least tolerant, at 49 percent.The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reports more than 75 percent of Americans…
Obama's Faith Problem
https://townhall.com/columnists/luritadoan/2011/12/26/obamas_faith_problem
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Nor are they likely to since Obama's calculating use of the clergy and religion is usually timed to garner a boost in the polls. … projected a thinly disguised contempt towards people of faith, such as when he uttered his iconic "clinging to their guns and religion…
A Politically Correct Christmas Eve
https://townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2011/12/25/a_politically_correct_christmas_eve
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A gift that would satisfy, with no indecision,Each group of people, every religion;
Every ethnicity, every hue,Everyone, everywhere…
Sudan again terrorizing its own people
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/23/sudan_again_terrorizing_its_own_people
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WASHINGTON (BP) -- Sudan's militant Islamic regime again is terrorizing its own people based on religion and ethnicity, driving about … in July, the result of an election that came after the 2005 peace agreement ending a north-south civil war based primarily on religion…
A New 'Silent Night' Descends on Austria
https://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2011/12/23/a_new_silent_night_descends_on_austria
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conviction against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff on the following charge: "denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion … parliamentarian Geert Wilders for allegedly anti-Islamic statements, had this to say:
"If you cannot say that Islam is a backward religion…
Cherish your Freedoms this Christmas
https://townhall.com/columnists/kathrynlopez/2011/12/23/cherish_your_freedoms_this_christmas
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in Saudi Arabia who discusses the Bible in class or makes favorable comments about Jews -- prison terms and lashes for "mocking religion…
Air Force base refuses to remove nativity scene
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/22/air_force_base_refuses_to_remove_nativity_scene
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"This conspicuous display of ritual objects is a clear endorsement of religion in violation of the Establishment clause of the First…
UPDATE: Iranian pastor told to recant or die
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/22/update_iranian_pastor_told_to_recant_or_die
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Authorities arrested Nadarkhani in his home city of Rasht in Oct. 2009 on charges that he questioned obligatory religion classes in…
KIEV & BEYOND: Church planting spreads
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/21/kiev__beyond_church_planting_spreads
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architecture and highly developed transportation systems; traditional Slavic mindsets and modern Western European culture; and Orthodox religion…
Pew: Christianity has become global faith in past century
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/12/21/pew_christianity_has_become_global_faith_in_past_century
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Christianity has grown into a global faith in the last century, moving from a predominantly European, North and South American religion … That 100-year view is one of the major findings of a new report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which compares the worldwide … Christianity, Pew says, remains the world's largest religion "by far" and has seen the number of adherents nearly quadruple in the…
Manure Makers, Yes; Catholics, No
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2011/12/21/creators_oped
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Republican-controlled House of Representatives led by Speaker John Boehner -- the right of Catholics to freely exercise their religion … Constitution, which guarantees the "free exercise" of religion.…