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Obama hails Che Guevara?

Che flag sends ‘disturbing’ message about Obama Candidate attracts ‘people who think mass murderers are romantic revolutionaries’

The Fox TV affiliate in Houston has captured images of a volunteer in a campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama working in front of a flag featuring the image of Che Guevara, the South [...]

Israel Prepared to Divide Jerusalem?

Senior Official Says Israel Prepared to Divide Jerusalem By Robert Berger Jerusalem, 08 October 2007

A senior government official says Israel is prepared to relinquish parts of Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement. But as Robert Berger reports from the VOA’s Jerusalem bureau, there is opposition to the plan in the Cabinet and [...]

Practical Christian Pacifism

by David A. Hoekema

Few moral and theological positions are as deeply cherished by their adherents, yet so quickly dismissed by their opponents, as pacifism. The moral legitimacy of using violence is among the most urgent issues of our time, and yet its discussion slips quickly into an exchange of stereotypes. Pacifists are to [...]

Unconscionable Evangelicals

Most Evangelical Leaders Still Support Iraq War

Most evangelical leaders still support the war in Iraq and want the United States to “stay until the job is done,” according to a survey released Monday.

How can one love the enemy, love their enemy, if one kills them?  That is not possible. If Christ did [...]

Senate Wants More Spies

WASHINGTON — After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants.

One by one, the Senate rejected amendments that [...]

Human ID Chips (a secular appraisal)

Human ID Chips Get Under My Skin

The technology is available, but the potential for misuse is almost limitless. Our columnist takes you through the dangers of this futuristic process

by David H. Holtzman

While it’s easy to reject the notion of placing little ID chips inside humans as an ominous Orwellian invasion of [...]

Politics and Nausea

A Christian friend sent me this link and asked me for my thoughts:

Gingrich Speech 

Well, I tried reading through this, but Gingrich’s “god-like” summary of each State in the Middle East is both vastly complicated and vastly simplistic (and vastly arrogant, I might add).  What does God have to do with the kingdoms of [...]