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I wonder how nonreligious people review such religious requests.

I wonder what's happened in three years: The survey conducted by Harris Poll found that 42 percent of US adults are not "absolutely certain" there is a God compared to 34 percent who felt that way when asked the same question three years ago.

"The U.S. military is being buffeted by dueling legal claims over religion, with one set of plaintiffs contending that the Pentagon is suppressing evangelical Christianity and another set arguing just the opposite -- that the brass gives the most aggressive evangelicals free rein to proselytize in uniform."

But aren't chaplains seen as religious figures?

"Iran awarded a Moroccan artist Wednesday the top prize in an exhibition of cartoons on the Holocaust that has received international condemnation, including from U.N. chief Kofi Annan."

"Iran awarded a Moroccan artist Wednesday the top prize in an exhibition of cartoons on the Holocaust that has received international condemnation, including from U.N. chief Kofi Annan."

"In a prepared statement Thursday, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson rapped the news media for reporting a rumor "based on nothing but one man's allegation," referred to Haggard as a friend and suggested the timing of the story was meant to influence the outcome of the Amendment 43 vote."

"Here's the day's spin from Colorado Springs: A gay prostitute and drug dealer tempts a pillar of the church. The man of the cloth comes close to a fall, but resists at the decisive moment. He remains "steady" with his wife and five children. The gay guy, Mike Jones, who sounds pretty normal, is painted as the tempting devil, opportunistic in his timing and depraved in all aspects of his being. Haggard, who sounds like a cornered animal, comes off as the tempted victor."

What were they thinking?

So, what's the outlook for religion in politics? The Democratic resurgence in Congress, according to political observers, heralds a new dynamic in the long-standing tug-of-war over religion and politics in public life. Any predictions?

"They include one from a teen-age girl asking God to forgive her for having an abortion, one from a prisoner who said he was innocent and wanted to be at home with his family, and one from a man who wanted God's help winning the lottery, according to media reports."

The call: "Let's stop stereotyping evangelicals:
The rationale: "Evangelicals led the grass-roots campaigns for religious liberty, the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage. Even the Moral Majority in its most belligerent form amounted to nothing more terrifying than churchgoers flocking peacefully to the polls on Election Day. The only people who want a biblical theocracy in America are completely outside the evangelical mainstream, their influence negligible."

"The passionate, sometimes rhythmic, language-like patter that pours forth from religious people who 'speak in tongues' reflects a state of mental possession, many of them say. Now they have some neuroscience to back them up."

"The passionate, sometimes rhythmic, language-like patter that pours forth from religious people who 'speak in tongues' reflects a state of mental possession, many of them say. Now they have some neuroscience to back them up."

Or is it "Witch Doctors in America."

Wal-Mart wishes you a Merry Christmas.

Is this "4-step plan calls for Haggard to 'be humbled'" for him or are these public 'steps' somehow for the rest of us?

"In the culture war that is upon us you, my friend, are a formidable adversary, a worthy enemy, and a determined foe. You cannot be ignored or forgotten. You do not and will not go away. You will press the issue and press it again until you cause those who oppose your agenda to rise up and exert the same energy back that you are exerting, or else lose the war."

Check out this 'Gallery of Fallen Leaders.'

"It's often forgotten, but seven states of the Union still define atheists, secular humanists, and other freethinkers as second-class citizens. The state constitutions of Arkansas, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas retain historic provisions that ban unbelievers-and in some cases, minority religionists as well-from holding public office, bearing witness in court, or both."

What to do with churches that accept openly gay churchgoers?

The compromise Catholic Bishops will make on openly gay families: "We are trying to find a language that does not betray the teaching of the church, but will perhaps express it in ways that are not so offensive," Cardinal Francis George, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an interview.

First, she asked.

To be there, go here (online link).

Would you be offended if your child got one of these? I mean, it's a Christmas program, right?

Can you live with it? "I received a large number of comments, and quite a spirited debate, concerning my resolution opposing religious intolerance, including desecration of the Quran," he writes in his blog.

"Concerned that the voice of science and secularism is growing ever fainter in the White House, on Capitol Hill and in culture, a group of prominent scientists and advocates of strict church-state separation yesterday announced formation of a Washington think tank designed to promote "rationalism" as the basis of public policy."

this could happen even in our free market system? At least the Till story gave closure. This seems only to taunt the family and the legal system.

"So you do have the choice about coming back to a human life?"
Interviewer
"Right."
Deepak Chopra

"Janet Wolfson is a 44-year-old mother of eight in Canton, Georgia. Tracie Moore, a 39-year-old midwife who lives in southern Kentucky, is mother to fourteen. Wendy Dufkin in Coxsackie has her thirteen. And while Jamie Stoltzfus, a 27-year-old Illinois mom, has only four children so far, she plans on bearing enough to populate 'two teams.' All four mothers are devoted to a way of life New York Times columnist David Brooks has praised as a new spiritual movement taking hold among exurban and Sunbelt families. Brooks called these parents 'natalists' and described their progeny as a new wave of 'Red-Diaper Babies' -- as in 'red state.' "

"Patrick Hogan, spokesman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission, said the airline asked airport police to remove the six men from the Minneapolis to Phoenix flight because their actions were "arousing some concerns" among both passengers and crew.

"He said the men had been praying at the gate area but he did not know if they tried to pray once at their seats inside the plane.

"He also said some witnesses reported the men were making anti-American statements involving the Iraq war, asked to change seats once inside the cabin, that one requested an extender to make his seat belt larger even though he did not appear to need it and that in general 'there was some peculiar behavior.' "

You want ungrateful?
Some say the church should take legal action.

The things Lex comes across.