Category: God
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FBI training includes anti-Islam indoctrination
From Wired, here’s what the FBI teaches its counterterrorism agents about the average Muslim: The stated purpose of one [briefing], about allegedly religious-sanctioned lying, is to “identify the elements of verbal deception in Islam and their impacts on Law Enforcement.” Not “terrorism.” Not even “Islamist extremism.” Islam. Pretty un-American indoctrination in a federal agency whose motto is, “Fidelity,…
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Spain’s Blurred Cultural Divides (or how Newt Gingrich can’t even get xenophobia right)
Newt Gingrich states, “The proposed “Cordoba House” overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks – is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that “Cordoba House”…
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Zeke’s Life, Spring 2010 edition: Be Here Now
I don’t know where the last couple of days have gone, but I want my weekend back! I haven’t been posting a lot about daily life this semester because I am lucky enough to actually be very consumed with school and the career search. I really didn’t expect things to hit me so hard all…
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Mark 7:1-23 (ESV)
This has been weighing on my mind in past months, in consideration of both my own mindset and in observation of others. I won’t attempt to embellish it with any of my own commentary or interpretation, but I’ll reproduce it here in case it might be helpful to anyone else. For background, this passage details…
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An Election Prayer
May this country’s future be one worthy of its founding ideals of freedom, equality, and self-determination. May we come closer and closer to liberty and justice for all. For everyone who has made up their minds and fears a negative outcome, comfort. For the polarized and disagreeing, understanding and respect. May we not be a…
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