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School Prayer: Yea or Nay?
Date: 01/26/2013
In recent blogs, I've been concerned with clearing up some common misconceptions relating to areas of interface (sometimes involving significant controversy and conflict) between religion and secular American culture. Having previously discussed why teaching creationism in public school science classes , or posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms , are both inappropriate and un ...
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Why the Ten Commandments Do NOT Belong in Public Schools (Part One)
Date: 01/17/2013
In my previous blog entry , I mentioned the fact that U.S. public schools are taxpayer-supported, government-operated state institutions (teachers and other public school staff members are state employees), and that, as state institutions, U.S. public schools are therefore required to function as secular institutions (owing to the constitutional principle of "separation of church and state ...
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Why the Ten Commandments Do NOT Belong in Public Schools (Part Three)
Date: 01/21/2013
To attempt to put a more "human face" upon all of this abstract armchair argumentation over the constitutionality and legality (or otherwise) of the government posting or supporting displays of the Ten Commandments in U.S. public schools , let's wrap things up by just trying to look at the whole issue from a much more personal angle. Suppose a Native American family -- one who perhaps still fol ...
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Chicago: 446 school age children shot 2012 with strongest gun laws in country
Date: 01/11/2013
There's been a lot of talk about gun control lately. During WWII, Adolf Hitler never invaded Switzerland because every adult is required to have a gun. Below is some food for thought on where gun control will take us. "When you out law guns, only outlaws have guns!" - Dale H. (Thanks, Dale, for emailing me this article. Pics added.) [caption id="attachment_22 ...
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God's Obedient Child: More Musings for Rebels
Date: 01/09/2013
I've been stalling on the subject of obedience: just the term makes me a bit squeamish, and I'm not sure where this discomfort comes from. Maybe my squeamishness is the result of having grown up singing in church one too many rounds of that cheesy, old hymn, Trust and Obey ; maybe it is the outgrowth of having sometimes heard the term thrown around with an almost smug and legalistic pietis ...
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The Way to Peace & Fulfillment
Date: 12/19/2012
Recent events and the tragedy in Sandy Hook have encouraged people all over America and the world to look at violence and the use of guns. Acts of terrorism and people hurting other people have occurred since the beginning of human history. There is a way to peace. Our wisest leaders, philosophers and teachers have shared it with us for centuries. It is the Golden Rule. Be k ...
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10 Commandments of Holiday Weight Loss
Date: 12/12/2012
Whether you are trying to lose weight, maintain or just stay healthy, making your way through the holiday season can be a challenge, which is why Our Lady of Weight Loss instructed me to roll out her Ten Commandments of Holiday Weight Loss. The Ten Commandments of Holiday Weight Loss from Our Lady of Weight Loss, the patron saint of permanent fat removal. Thou shalt honor thy ...
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Answers! What do we do about the Re-Election of Barack Hussein Obama?
Date: 11/09/2012
About the Re-Election of Barack Hussein Obama What Do We Christians Do When Things Don't Go Our Way? By Donna Calvin November 9, 2012 Anyone who knows me or has read anything I've written in the past year at Watchwoman on the Wall knows that I have never supported most every thing that Barack Hussein Obama has done. I have found him to be an evil anti-Christian, ...
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ABC's Nightline: Adultery
See the first in a Nightline series on the Ten Commandments on Thursday, September 24.
WATCH HERE: See the Full Adultery Debate Unfold!
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