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Evangelical Pastors Defend Trump’s Border Wall Stating it’s the “Christian Thing to Do”
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Megan Bailey
Bishop Harry Jackson is pushing back against those who claim it’s ‘un-Christian’ or ‘immoral’ to support President Donald Trump’s border wall. Jackson serves as the senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. He spoke with The Daily Caller, and he believes some powerful democrats are only pushing back on the wall in an…
Lady Gaga to Mike Pence: ‘You Are the Worst Representation of What It Means to Be a Christian’
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Megan Bailey
Lady Gaga is not afraid to speak her mind when it comes to politics. The singer interrupted her ongoing Las Vegas residency set on Saturday to bash Vice President and his wife Karen. “To Mike Pence, who thinks it’s acceptable that his wife works at a school that bans LGBTQ, you’re wrong. You say we…
Karen Pence Mocked and Ridiculed for Working at a Conservative Christian School
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Lesli White
Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen is under fire after accepting a part-time teaching position at a private Virginia school. Immanuel Christian School, a private K-8 school, requires employees to agree to certain religious beliefs and standards including living a “personal life of moral purity” and also believing that marriage can only be between a…
Americans’ Trust in Clergy Members at All Time Low
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
A constant stream of bad news has brought American’s trust in clergy members to its knees, and not because Americans are flocking to religion. Mismanagement of funds, sexual abuse, fraud, affairs and other scandals have brought Americans’ perception of the clergy’s trustworthiness to a record low. According to a recent Gallup survey, only 37 percent of…
Pope Suggests It’s Better to Be an Atheist Than to Live Like a Hypocritical Christian
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Everyone knows that one person in their church who praises God loudly on Sunday and then promptly forgets how to live a Christian life when they walk out the door. They talk about how people should be charitable and give to the poor, and then they throw out half of their meal when they eat…
Witchcraft Rises in the US and Christianity Declines: Witches Now Hexing Donald Trump
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Lesli White
According to a recent report, there has been a dramatic rise in paganism and the number of Americans identifying as witches while Christian denominations have been losing members. An estimated 1.5 million Americans now identify as witches, more than the total number of Presbyterians. As Christianity declines, paganism has come to the mainstream and witches…
Hotline for Sexual Abuse Scandal Bringing in Flood of New Information
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro stated that a surge of outside inquiries has come since the investigation into the clergy sex scandal in Pennsylvania began. Since August, when the investigation began, Shapiro said that the Pennsylvania hotline that was set up for dealing with the issue has received nearly 1,500 calls. Many of those calls…
‘Jesus Take the Wheel’: Congresswoman Mocks Mike Pence’s Christian Faith
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Megan Bailey
No matter what side of the political fence you are on, mocking another person’s faith is always in bad taste. Representative-elect (D-Minn.) Ilhan Omar found herself in hot water for doing just that, when she made a tweet mocking the faith of Vice President Mike Pence. Omar posted a photo of Pence in the Oval…
Prayer For the President: New Jersey Nun Tweets Prayers For Trump Daily
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
While most people seem to take to Twitter to rage and complain these days, one nun has decided to react to “the crazy” in the world in a very different way. Rather than joining in the name-calling and open hatred that dominates the internet today, Sister Susan Francois has made it a point to tweet…
Senior Citizens to Outnumber Children in America by 2035
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
The 2030s are set to be a very important and very strange decade for the American population, at least as far as demographics are concerned. By the end of 2030, all baby boomers will have officially become senior citizens as they will all be older than 65 years of age. Once that happens, nearly one…
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