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God and Country 0
- January/February 2006
- January 1, 2006
It's a brave—though some might instead say unwise—individual who chooses to resist the might and authority of the United States Marine Corps. Created by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775—238 days before the Declaration of Independence was signed—the Marines have become, and are today, a formidable fighting force whose motto, "Semper Fidelis," Latin for
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Students, Teachers, And Religious Freedom 0
- January/February 2006
- January 1, 2006
An editorial in the February 24, 2004, News-Star, Monroe, Louisiana, pointed out that the Monroe School Board has voted unanimously to introduce elective Bible classes for eighth-grade students beginning this fall. Fourteen school systems in Louisiana and 153 across the nation already offer Bible as history and/or literature courses. According to the News-Star editorial, the
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Teach Us to Pray 0
- January/February 2006
- January 1, 2006
The increasing attempts by many "good people" to Christianize the United States by law rather than by evangelism has even reached the Supreme Court. The gospel commission given by Jesus is "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations," not "Go ye therefore, and compel all nations!" Even though we see what religion in government can
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Buy the Right Kind of Democracy 0
- January/February 2006
- January 1, 2006
There are more kinds of democracy than kinds of compact cars." The weary citizen, belabored by political oratory and bewildered by news analysts, retreats in confusion to the comparative sim_plicity of automobile ads, time payments, and keeping up with the Joneses. Democracy, like cars, comes with all kinds of sur_face trappings. It comes in Cuba
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Evolution and Intelligent Design 0
- January/February 2006
- January 1, 2006
According to InterVarsity Press, "The intelligent design theory has become the center of a growing controversy among state boards of education around the country as school board members and parents ask their local school boards to allow intelligent design to be taught in their science classrooms." Intelligent design is a truth-claim about the origin of
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The Meaning of America 0
- November/December 2005
- November 1, 2005
A famous historian once said that if Washington had been resurrected in Lincoln's time, he would not have found it very different from his own day. Clothing styles might have changed a little; some of the laws and customs might be new, but in the main, there would be no real divergence of culture and
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