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Ignorance will no longer be an excuse for NYC residents to eat unhealthy fast foods. According to a Reuters news release: A federal appeals court said on Tuesday that a new rule requiring New York City fast food restaurants to post calorie information on menu boards is effective immediately. A spokeswoman for the city law [...]
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A top Iranian Islamic official warned today against the “destructive” social and cultural consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. According to a Reuters article on the subject, Iran’s conservative clerical establishment often rails against the perceived dangers of U.S.-inspired culture and consumerism, branding it “Westoxication.” The Des Moines Register says, Barbie is [...]
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I read a blog post today entitled, Religious People Must Become More Literate About Religion from Dr. C. Drew Smith, Ph.D. Dr. Smith begins by saying, In his book, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t (2007), Stephen Prothero argues that while Americans are the most religious people in the Western World, we [...]
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I’m all for the right to have your own private religious (parochial) school. But I’m not for that school being able to hide under the auspices of ‘public’ education and be funded by taxpayer money. That’s precisely what is happening in Bloomington, Minnesota. According to an article in the WorldNetDaily, Amanda Getz of Bloomington, Minn., [...]
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I read a news article from OneNewsNow.com about a New Mexican couple who are being represented by a Christian law firm, who will appeal a ruling by the New Mexico Human Rights Commission that has fined them for refusing to take photos of a homosexual commitment ceremony. The article says, “Elaine Huguenin and her husband [...]
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Can God forget something? Wouldn’t He then cease to be omniscient (all-knowing)? Or is there an exception to this rule? Does God truly forgive and forget our sins? Someone asked me about this recently and I finally wrote a response. First let’s look at two passages of Scripture in Hebrews: “‘For this is the covenant [...]
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I’ve always said that my teeth were fine as a child until I started brushing regularly. Of course everyone told me I was crazy, but maybe I was on to something… . How is fluoride dangerous? Let’s begin with a few quotes from some experts in the field: “Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific [...]
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Basic Instinct” director Paul Verhoeven has written a book that includes several ideas that run contrary to the Christian faith, including the suggestion that Jesus could be the son of a Roman soldier who raped Mary during a Jewish uprising against Roman rule in 4 B.C. The book also claims that Judas Iscariot was not [...]
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An Israeli law known as the Law of Return was passed into law in 1950, while the Holocaust was still fresh in everyone’s memories. The Law entitles second generation Jews to Israeli citizenship (i.e. their father was a Jew). The law defines a Jew as “a person who was born of a Jewish mother or [...]
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Yes, yes: another fine example of Christian, brotherly love. A bunch of Greek and Armenian priests and worshipers gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem yesterday to celebrate Orthodox Palm Sunday, traditionally the Sunday before Orthodox Pascha, the equivalent of our Easter. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is where Jesus was [...]
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I recently saw a YouTube video on a Deconstructed Christian’s blog, which is sort of a powerful modern poem/manifesto about what it is to be that women at the well, when Jesus spoke into her life and into her heart. I found this deeply profound, moving, well-delivered, and excellently produced. I’ve posted the video at [...]
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This is part 2 of a 2 part series on my religious cultural experience in Northwest Indiana. My wife is taking a course at Bethel Church right now entitled, “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement.” This weekend was their cultural experience field trips and I went along for the ride with the BetterHalf (Hence the [...]
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This is part 1 of a 2 part series on my religious cultural experience in Northwest Indiana. My wife is taking a course at Bethel Church right now entitled, “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement.” This weekend was their cultural experience field trips and I went along for the ride with the BetterHalf (Hence the [...]
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If you are a goy (non-Jew/Gentile) like me, you are probably asking yourself, “what is prayeramedic talking about?!?” Well today in the Jewish calendar it is 14 Nisan, 5768. Today is the “Great Sabbath” (Shabbat HaGadol), the “Eve of Passover” (Erev Pesach). Tonight, millions of Jewish families around the world are sitting down to eat [...]
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Oprah’s new online class covering Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth is exposed. They conducted the first mass trance. Over 2 Million participated in this new age class. Check out this YouTube video for more information. NOTE: This is not new. She has been at this for some time while continuing to claim to be “Christian.” [...]
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