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  • The Reformation and Wars of Religion0

    This article is part two in a four part series. Read Part 1 Read Part 3 Starting in the 1520s international relations between the rising European states were dominated by conflicts that were primarily or significantly religious in character: wars in central and southern Europe, between Christians and Muslims; and, in central and northwestern Europe,

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  • Jesus Plus Nothing0

    "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads&” (Leviticus 20:13).* The news took the world by surprise. The Ugandan government was contemplating capital punishment for persistent homosexual activity.

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  • The Terrifying, Horrifying Evil of Religious Bigotry0

    Peter declares in the New Testament: &”Do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering…. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ. . . . If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. .

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  • The Great Barrier0

    If Religion be exempt from the authority of the Society at large, still less can it be subject to that of the Legislative Body. The latter are but the creatures and vicegerents of the former. Their jurisdiction is both derivative and limited: it is limited with regard to the co-ordinate departments, more necessarily is it

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  • Triumph Over Bigotry and Persecution0

    We have abundant reasons to rejoice that in this land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our

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  • As to War0

    It was gratifying to hear recently that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finally ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. Atheist Michael Newdow had tried to cast it as a choice between God and country. And we all know that regardless of how bawdy our civil society may become we are not about

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