Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
WESTON, Wis. (AP) - Police are investigating an 11-year-old girl's death from an undiagnosed, treatable form of diabetes after her parents chose to pray for her rather than take her to a doctor.
Full story...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
While the recent House of Representatives "Christmas resolution" was being covered and discussed ad nauseum on countless websites, blogs, and elsewhere, another far more heinous resolution was introduced, one which, unbelievably, does not appear to have been noticed by anyone.
On December 18, 2007, Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) introduced H. Res. ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
"Seeking to assess the effect of third-party prayer on patient outcomes, investigators found no evidence for divine intervention."
A three-year study conducted by Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic found no evidence of the power of prayer. The findings were published in the American Heart Journal (April 4, 2006) under ...
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Friday, November 12th, 2004
I will never understand what joy a person of faith finds in looking at their money and seeing a gentle reminder of the Lord. But I can understand why they'd want that gentle reminder in our schools. But if you call it state-sponsored brainwashing everyone cries foul. There is a ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2004
The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
"The Park Service ignored a letter of protest signed ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2004
Here's an article (you may need to login, but it's free) at the New York Times website with an overview/update on the medical prayer healing debate. Since a Columbia study in 2001, the prayer debate has been alive. But according to the article: "Three years later, after one of the ...
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal courts would be barred from striking the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag under a bill passed on Thursday by a House of Representatives split largely along party lines...Full story...
I can't believe this can actually pass in the House. Hopefully ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2004
Dear Santa Claus, I truly believe in you and want you for my personal friend. Let me humbly accept your gifts, not because I deserve them, but because it is your will that I should receive them. Let me not doubt, but increase my faith; for the harder I believe ...
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