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		<title>The (irrational) politics of religion prevailed in South Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A private gathering of 150 unnamed religious activists tried to throw the South Carolina evangelical vote to Santorum. That gathering was held at the ranch of a Southern Baptist Convention conservative takeover heavyweight &#8211; retired Texas Judge Paul Pressler. As Interfaith Alliance head Welton Gaddy said on the Jan. 21 broadcast, it had all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10400&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rector of thousand-year-old greek monestary arrested/charged with embezzlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten police officers went to the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos in Greece on Tuesday to arrest the, Father Ephraim as though he were &#8220;a gangster,&#8221; raged The Voice of Russian. But as Angeliki Koutantou and Harry Papachristou of Reuters explain: The abbot of one of Greece’s richest and most powerful monasteries went to jail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10392&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Weird&#8217; Bible verse from Vintage Faith Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If all Biblical scripture is &#8220;God breathed,&#8221; argues Pastor Dan Kimball of Vintage Faith Church, we can&#8217;t ignore any of them. Can we? Not even Samuel 18:27: &#8220;David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10387&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie Long&#8217;s New Birth academy closes with students in the lurch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baptist Bishop Eddie Long of the the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church was hit by lawsuits, settled, dumped and now his church&#8217;s school is closing: Dozens of parents said they are left scrambling to find a school for their children after leaders at New Birth Christian Academy said the campus will not reopen next week. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10385&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina marriage in what crosshairs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Same sex marriage is already illegal in North Carolina. Even so, declaring themselves terrified that the courts may undo what the legislature hath wrought, the Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly imposed a May 8 referendum on whether to embed that stricture in the state constitution. Rushing on from that contrived position, the Art Pope funded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10363&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Civil marriage debate is owed balance and empirical evidence: Updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte Observer tells us that the Rev. Mark Harris, head of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, says he wants the a &#8220;civil&#8221; debate over same-sex marriage. Yet they seem unsure about why he is leading a campaign to pass the proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Although he and the BSCNC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10344&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Franklin Graham to Romney repentance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Franklin Graham (son of Billy), who got in a bit of a tangle over the &#8220;blessing&#8221; of Sarah Palin past presidential time around, has pronounced Republican hopeful Mitt Romney&#8217;s Mormonism a nonproblem. Graham said: Yes, the fact that Mitt Romney is a Mormon doesn’t bother me. I think when we are voting for president we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10336&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isolation and death alone in the connected society</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something worse than being invited to spend Christmas with difficult relatives. Being forgotten: Two hundred thousand people disappear every year in the UK; of those, 2,000 will remain missing. Some, of course, are murdered; some just wish to disappear, which is easy if you really want it – move home, move job, toss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10332&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Who: A God for our times?</title>
		<link>http://baptistplanet.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/dr-who-a-god-for-our-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Kelly seems to be quite serious, and makes an interesting argument: You may scoff, but if atheism functions on the idea that the Bible is a work of fiction, then what&#8217;s to stop us from taking our values from other works of fiction? Tagged: atheism, Dr. Who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10328&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientology video of the year&#8217;s unwinner is &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Village Voice Scientology video of the year has been selected: Over the top, don&#8217;t you think? Tagged: Scientology, sects<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=baptistplanet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5516878&amp;post=10318&amp;subd=baptistplanet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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