Tag: religion
group name: noplacelikehere
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October 27, 2009 01:28 PM EDT --
I graduated with honors from both a Texas high school and a Methodist university. When I got to graduate school, I had never heard of evolution. When we got to the Victorian Age in Survey of British . . .
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November 24, 2006 02:09 PM EST --
Sometimes, I really don't care where I'm from. This is where I am now.
There’s been a lot of controversy on Gather lately regarding religion, the sanctity of religion, satire and its place . . .
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November 07, 2006 09:55 PM EST --
As I was sifting through the usual junk mail that finds it's way into my mail box every day, I noticed a pamplet entitled " The End of False Religion is Near ".
I usually trash most . . .
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August 17, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
Why does the topic of gay marriage include the topic of getting married to animals and siblings that we love?
Gay is gay. Animals are animals. Siblings are siblings. Apples . . .
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August 18, 2007 03:57 PM EDT --
Or are people just stupid in the way they look at it. Or more likely, is your pastor not bothering to tell you what it means for modern American political reasons?
The . . .
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March 28, 2008 08:03 AM EDT --
Earlier this week in Weston Wisconsin an 11 year old girl died when her parents failed to take her to the doctor.
The girl who had not been to the doctor since the age of 3 had an undiagnosed . . .
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October 24, 2009 11:23 AM EDT --
The states that make up the "Bible belt" do not look like a belt to me. They are the states in the southeast, beginning with Texas to the coast. Some have questioned why Utah is not one of them. I . . .
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December 07, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
I could never quite make my mind up about Will Smith and until now never understood why. He was funny in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and as a stand up and turned in competent performances in films like . . .
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December 28, 2007 09:26 AM EST --
The American temperance movement labored for decades to equate chardonnay with demon rum. In the Midwest they joined forces with fundamentalist Christians and finally began to influence local . . .
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February 02, 2008 08:12 PM EST --
I get asked a lot what religion I practice and although I find that question a little intrusive, I do tend to give the best answer that I have which s that I was once a Catholic. People of course look . . .
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September 04, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
I was staying up that night , desperate of getting some sleep,
Sinking in thoughts that tear my soul and hurt my reddish eyes,
The more I watch the others sleeping, the more . . .
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June 25, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
Be forwarned, this article could take on a couple of directions before I am done. As I wrote the title, I was thinking more about an adult I know and then, I began to think about how that statement applies . . .
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July 05, 2009 12:06 PM EDT --
This is yet another question I have repeatedly asked, and can't seem to get an answer to...
WHY is President Obama's religion, or lack thereof important? I believe he is a Christian, but I don't . . .
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August 19, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
How many of you would be Muslim if you were born and lived in a nice middle class suburb of Saudi Arabia or Morocco? How many religious people are really the conformists in their own culture? . . .
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August 25, 2007 03:32 PM EDT --
Troy Stouffer, one of the most respected and talented correspondents on gather, recently posted an article which asked the following question:
"I Am An Evangelical. Why Does That Scare you?" . . .
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June 13, 2007 03:34 PM EDT --
This sign was outside a church in a small town in North Carolina. Needless to say the local Muslims were offended by it. How do you feel about this sign? Do you think it is offensive?
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November 18, 2006 03:04 PM EST --
This morning I had just gotten up and starting to move around when there comes a knock at my door. Its the door that only people I don't know use.
I answer the door in my pajamas looking . . .
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May 01, 2009 07:37 PM EDT --
Tell me... Why do we even HAVE a Christian right? What is there in the ultra-conservative right politically that so attracts fundamentalist Christians? From what little I've been able to . . .
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January 07, 2007 04:56 PM EST --
This happened to me when I was three years old, and it still infuriates me whenever I remember it. My Mom wanted my sister Barbara (5 y.o.) to take me to the church . . .
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November 16, 2006 11:09 PM EST --
Why doesn't anyone ever comment on my stuff? I mean I get some comments but not like other people have hundreds.
Also why is it that all the people who do read it hardly anyone votes?
I want . . .
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