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- February 6, 2015
The Jehovah's Witnesses The Jehovah's Witnesses–who had already faced persecution by a previous German administration (1933-1945)–report problems in two areas. The first is the dissemination by German states of "anticult" material that defames the church. The church has brought defamation suits against the purveyors of this information, and for now the practices have stopped. A
READ MOREIf the tape of evangelist Pat Robertson telling a private meeting of Christian Coalition leaders that they needed to model their organization on the Tammany Hall political machine doesn't prove that the "Christian" of the Christian Coalition is false advertising nothing will. Tammany Hall, if you recall, was the New York Democratic Party organization whose
READ MOREFor years the Christian Right has warned that separation of church and state is eradicating Christianity from American life. In contrast, law professor Stephen Feldman warns that separation of church and state, in fact, subjugates minority faiths (especially the Jews) and ensures Christian cultural and political hegemony. "Significantly, in late-twentieth-century America," Feldman writes in Please
READ MORE"We Christians face persecution right here in America!" said the balding gentleman sitting to my right at a recent banquet. "It's true," the young mother across the table said. "I read about a high school in Michigan that was forced to take down a picture of Jesus that had been there for 30 years. It
READ MOREIt was a night of anguish, of course at least I supposed it was, for it had all the symptoms of it but it passed at last, and the Christian Scientist came, and I was glad. She was middle-aged, and large and bony, and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and
READ MOREMystery Passage I found your article "Justice Kennedy's Mystery Passage" (July/August), to be quite fascinating. It was at least as fascinating as those various excursions in the past when, as you put it, jurisprudence gives way to metaphysics. To me, the stand-out example was Judge Brevard Hand's ruling that, in essence, declared "secular humanism" to
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