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Biblical slogan being used to attack Obama: "'Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow." (Psalm 109:8-9) I never cease to be amazed/horrified at the hatred aimed by the right-wing at President Obama: There's a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers and across the Internet. It reads simply: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" A nice sentiment? Maybe not.
Conservative group aims to delete "liberal bias" from Bible"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." That famous line, attributed to Jesus in Luke 23:34, could well apply to the folks at Conservapedia -- the "conservative version" of Wikipedia -- who have embarked on a project to rewrite the Bible.
George W Bush Invaded Iraq As a War Of Religion To Defend Israel and Western World"Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East" and "the Biblical prophecies are about to be fulfilled" President Bush told the French President Jacques Chirac to explain why he was invading Iraq and wanted France to join a coalition of the willing.
Top 10 Surprising Facts About the World's Oldest BibleErasures, additions, corrections, substitutions — Sinaiticus reveals a Bible-in-process. Between the 4th and 12th centuries, various scribes changed earlier colleagues' bad spelling. Of more theological significance, the Gospel of Mark ends early.
Knowledge of Bible on the fallYoung people believe the Bible is old fashioned, irrelevant and for people like EastEnders' character Dot Cotton, new research has revealed.
This verse in the bible was an eye opener for me because it answers all the doubters and those spreading miss information about the native people of the known Palestine/Israel.
MSNBC? Nope. Fox News? No way! The New York Times? Oh, hell no! Wall Street Journal? Don't think so. Washington Post, Politico, National Review, CNN, NPR, PBS, The Economist, Al Jazeera? No, no and, let's see...no.
Scriipture and LGBTQ human beingsThe Leviticus 20 passage commonly thrown in the face of LGBT folk is dealing with something very specific and not a condemnation of homosexuals.
I have wondered before what it might feel like to live in a world you believe is only several thousand years old. What might it be like to really think that you can determine the age of the universe by counting back generations in the Bible.
Quran: The Quran , the Biblehe scholars of divinity and the writers on the history of religion usually discuss their subject under the heading of religions.
More On The Historical Inaccuracy Of The Bible When observing the prevalence of Biblical literalism, it's obvious that mankind is seeking to understand the meaning of its existence. However, when we exhibit blind faith in the Bible, we may be doing little more than choosing the comfort of denial over the fear of fatality.
PBS, Politics, Patriotism, & The Primordial Patriarch The program challenges long-held beliefs. Abraham, Sarah and their offspring probably didn't exist, says Carol Meyers, a religion professor at Duke University.
Einstein Letter on God Sells for $404,000 The NYT reports: From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.
The god-awful GOP debateRarely has a debate left me so troubled about the future of the nation.
After giving birth to twins, mother dies after refusing blood transfusionA young Jehovah's Witness has died after giving birth to twins, amid claims that she had refused a blood transfusion because of her faith.
I can't seem to turn on a televangelist program these days without hearing about how we are in the end-times.
A.J. Jacobs, "The Year of Living Biblically" author: Mr. Media InterviewA.J. Jacobs, editor at large for Esquire magazine, talks about his new book, "The Year of Living Biblically," in this audio interview (with transcription).
Challenging History: The Dead Sea ScrollsThis is about a particular written character, some numbers and red ink in the Dead Sea Scrolls. What does it all mean? No one is sure but some people think the scrolls may be from the middle ages.
Do you believe in God? Why is that question so hard for so many to answer? I know there are a lot of people out there that would say yes to this question, but the number of people that would say no greatly out numbers these people.
Krista Tippett: The New Evangelical RevolutionariesIn his book The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Shane Claiborne quotes the Danish philosopher/theologian Soren Kierkegaard: "The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers.
Did Einstein Believe in God?I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how.
The Good Book, Shatner-styleSo what is it about William Shatner? Is he cool because he doesn't know how uncool he is? Is he cool because he knows he's uncool? Has he found some way to straddle the line between lame and cool, thus remaining an enigma that will confound us for all time? Whatever it is, no o …
I don't hold Ted Haggard responsible for his actions. Instead, I see his behavior as a sad consequence of a strictly religious upbringing, an upbringing he likely had no say in.
Long-lost Gospel of JudasHere is something from the roots of Christianity. It will be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel, April 9, 8pm EST.
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