Sounds so seedy, doesn’t it? Both went to Rome for a Vatican getaway, allegedly at the Pontiff’s behest (yeah, like he needs her advice). So when all of the sudden out of the catacombs arrives an ill-mannered paparazzi photographer and snapped the two during their Italian tryst shopping for a glove that fit for two,

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Benny Hinn admits his “relationship” with Paula White
Arizona Atheist (continued) Interestingly, the Arizona Atheist writes, instead of causing society to spin out of control into moral decay, there is evidence that natural selection crafted our innate sense of altruism – hardly that …
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Atheism and Creation Ministries International, part 11 | True …
It’s funny how, written from a theist perspective, he paints such a picture of atheists . Collins recounts how, as a student at the University of Virginia, conversations would easily turn to religion, where Collins’ sense of the …
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Daylight Atheism > The Language of God: From Atheism to Belief
The empire of controversial Agape Ministries Church spans two states, eight properties and a fleet of 13 vehicles, and its funds are held in 10 separate accounts, it has been revealed. Court documents obtained by The Advertiser show for the first time the scope of church leader Pastor Rocco Leo’s fortune obtained, his detractors claim, through fraud.

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Controversial Agape Ministries Church sells $1.6m home
The harsh Republican response to President Barack Obama’s defense of a mosque near Ground Zero marks a dramatic shift in the party’s posture toward Islam from a once-active courtship of Muslim voters to very public tolerance after 9/11 to an openly aired sense of mistrust.
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GOP takes harsher stance toward Islam
To understand this post, you need to do something before you continue reading. You need to see the photograph that accompanied this news story when it ran on page one of the Washington Post

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No faith in this immigration story
Several hundred Indonesians rallied in Jakarta on Sunday demanding that the president do more to protect freedom of religion and to punish hardline Muslim groups which have attacked minority faiths.
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Hundreds protest in Jakarta, urge religious freedom
A highlight for us was to watch the wonderful changinging of the guard that occurs every day at 11:30 a.m. in front of the queen’s Buckingham Palace.

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Postcards from Readers: Buckingham Palace
I could be wrong, but I believe Tocqueville was the first to observe how Americans have a bottomless appetite for zoning, siting, and related administrative arcana. We see it still today : Nearly 70 percent of people feel an Islamic center near ground zero is disrespectful, even deliberately provocative, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll. Fantastic! We just can’t get enough — it’s in our blood, or our distinctive national character, something.
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The Compass of Hatred
Like me, everybody loves their summers and vacations. We all wish we were lying on the beaches of Charleston or Greece in the summer, enjoying a beautiful sunset in the Carolina Mountains, or even relaxing for a week doing nothing except drinking a cold one on the porch.
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Rest doesn't mean a flight from God