Tag: churches
member name: Bert B.
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October 13, 2009 11:06 PM EDT --
My experiences here on Gather have included a number of interchanges with devout Christians. Most of these have been pleasant enough, but I am a nonbeliever, so many of them were somewhat . . .
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June 28, 2008 11:09 PM EDT --
Some people do not like what their kids will experience in public schools, so they "educate" them at home. Is this good or bad?
First, I must admit that I have some bias here. . . .
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November 05, 2008 02:09 PM EST --
I am happy that Obama won. I think it shows that Americans showed that they could see past the race issue. The result is not so much a rejection of McCain...although his campaign disillusioned . . .
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May 13, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
Kara Neumann of Weston Wisconsin died on Easter Sunday.
She died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a result of undiagnosed and untreated juvenile diabetes. This is a treatable disease, and Kara should . . .
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September 27, 2009 08:54 PM EDT --
This is the fifth in a series of fictional discussions with my imaginary friend Al.
To understand the background for this piece, I recommend that you read one or more of the previous . . .
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October 02, 2009 12:24 PM EDT --
This is a continuation of an earlier piece. There was clearly a lot more to say on this subject, so…here’s Part 2…and it may not be the last.
Here is a link to the first part: . . .
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March 18, 2006 02:56 PM EST --
"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of . . .
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June 04, 2006 08:14 PM EDT --
Ken Santucci and I have a lot in common. We are both retired aerospace engineers living in Southern California, both around seventy years old. He worked for the old North American Aviation . . .
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October 28, 2008 09:00 PM EDT --
THE BIG NEWS on the Internet yesterday was that federal authorities arrested two skinhead cretins who were plotting to kill over a hundred black people, including Barack Obama.
Now, these . . .
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October 19, 2009 11:00 PM EDT --
People who are opposed to abortion view the fetus as a human being. They believe that human life is sacred, and that destroying it, even in its earliest forms, is a mortal sin. Many “pro-lifers” . . .
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October 29, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
In an article on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) web site, writer Kimberley Daniels warns her readers to steer clear of Halloween candy.
She says that “…most of the candy . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:49 AM EST --
Devout religious believers often deplore the “moral relativism” of liberal/progressive thought, claiming that absolute moral standards, as defined by their sacred scriptures, are necessary . . .
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June 13, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
This article appeared on the AlterNet web site today. I think it is an important issue. Here, we have a vaccine that is "100 percent effective at protecting against the most prevalent . . .
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January 28, 2009 11:20 PM EST --
Pope Benedict XVI, otherwise known as Joseph Ratzinger, is deemed infallible when it comes to matters of church dogma. According to the Church, God tells him what to say, and he cannot . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:02 PM EDT --
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a beautiful young married couple named Ken and Barbie. They had two children named Ken Jr. and Barbarella. Ken was a lawyer, in a very successful private practice. . . .
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April 25, 2009 03:59 PM EDT --
Kathleen Sebelius has a job I wouldn't take for any amount of money. She is the governor of the state of Kansas. She is also Obama's pick to head the department of Health and Human Services. . . .
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August 17, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
I read an article in the LA times the other day about the pastor of a church in Buena Park, CA. His name is Wiley S. Drake, and I guess I should have suspected something phony about anyone who has . . .
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August 16, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
Everybody suffers from it…except me, of course. Well, I sometimes get up on my high horse about gas-guzzling SUV’s, but that’s different. I’m right, and I am just trying to help out all . . .
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April 10, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
A headline in the LA Times caught my eye today: "Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies." The article describes lawsuits filed by several religious groups attacking policies . . .
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April 13, 2006 09:43 PM EDT --
Dealing a major blow to the separation of government and religion, the U.S. Supreme Court last week ruled that members of a Christian sect could use a hallucinogenic tea as part of their religious ritual. . . .
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