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The Proselytizers: Wall Street Executives and Televangelists

Judith Ellis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Democracy, Christianity, Goldman Sachs, Brian Griffiths, Free Market, Capitalism, Jesus Christ, Televangelists, LLyod C. Blankfein, Business News
Judith Ellis

Goldman Sachs executives are sounding more and more like televangelists who say things like "We are doing the work of the ministry" and "Give and it shall be given unto you."

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So You're Thinking of Converting From Anglican to Catholic

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Communion, King-Henry-Viii, Rome, Horses, Racehorse-Names, Italy, Anglican Communion, Converting, Mac-Osx, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Apple Computers, Beethoven, Immortal Soul, Jesus, Pc, The Tudors, Peter Gallagher, The Pope, Mac, The Reformation, Roman Catholic Church, The New York Times, Microsoft, Catholic, Apple, Global Anglicanism, The Vatican, Jesus Christ, Autobiography, Anglican Church, Vatican City, Frank Mccourt, Archbishop of Canterbury, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).

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An Interview with Author David Comfort on The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia, Propofol, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, The Animals, Eric Burdon, Stuart Sutcliffe, Brian Epstein, Elvis Presley, Pete Townshend, Thriller, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Jesus Christ, El Cid, Mark David Chapman, The Dakota, Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"There's no simple answer to who John Lennon was. Sure, he was a great leader and a peacenik; on the other hand, he was an incredibly violent, narcissistic guy. That was the other side of him, and people just don't want to hear that."

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Why I Failed As an Atheist

Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Holocaust, Bible, Intolerance, Atheism, Anne Frank, Hebrew School, Judaism, The Diary of Anne Frank, Religion, Synagogue, God, Agnostic, Jesus Christ, Are You There God It's Me Margaret, Torah, Dogma, Secular, Religious Intolerance, Atheists, Secular Identity, Religious Dogma, Agnosticism, Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi, Spirituality, Living News
Lauren Cahn

I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed.

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Christ Begins Making Online Endorsements

eSarcasm | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Religion, Comedy and Satire, Christ, Jesus Christ, Comedy, Satire, Spiritual Satire, Esarcasm, Comedy News
eSarcasm

"I figured, what the hell?" said the King of Kings in a statement issued this morning via a spokesangel. "I find many of the stories on that site divinely amusing."

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What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

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Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF

Dean Sluyter | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Advertisements for Myself, Zen, Poetry, Franny and Zooey, Meditation, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anatta, Nirvana, Donald Rumsfeld, World Wrestling Federation, Self-Inquiry, New York Review of Books, Gospel of Thomas, Norman Mailer, Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Advaita, J.D. Salinger, Wwf, Mohandas Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Eastern Wisdom, Emily Dickinson, Buddhism, Transcendentalists, Amherst, Dzogchen, Living News
Dean Sluyter

When the dream of self dissolves, we awake and see that the true church is wherever we are.

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Biden "Jesus Christ" Called "Hate Speech" By Conservative

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Islam, Southern Baptist Convention, Joe Biden, Iran, United Methodist Church, Mark Tapscott, Presbyterian Church, Religion, Nuclear Weapons, Conservatives, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Vladimir Putin, Muslims, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Political Correctness, Vice President Joe Biden, Politics News

Mark Tapscott, the editorial page editor of the conservative Washington Examiner, has nothing but fire and brimstone for Joe Biden. In an op-ed last ...

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Shameful Plight of the Middle East's Christians

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Arabs, Palestinian Christians, Ghandi, Middle East, Jesus Christ, Middle East Conflict, Jesus, Iraqi Christians, Christian Arabs, Religion, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

No community today is so targeted by violent thugs for no reason other than sheer bigotry as are the Christians of Iraq.

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Jason Linkins

Pat Buchanan's Holocaust-Denial Enabling Ignored By NBC

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics News, Sobibor, Pat Buchanan Holocaust Deniers, Nazi War Criminals, John Demjanjuk, Jesus Christ, Media Criticism, Holocaust Deniers, Holocaust, Msnbc, Media News, Majdanek, Patrick Buchanan, Media News

Buchanan's support for Holocaust denialism is ever-present, ongoing, and -- as his John Demjanjuk piece indicates -- very strongly stated. Yet NBC has done diddly-poo in response.

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The Nazi War Criminal and Jesus: Patrick Buchanan's Obscene Comparison

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, Nazi War Criminals, Jesus Christ, John Demjanjuk, Patrick Buchanan, Sobibor, Majdanek, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

None of Buchanan's MSNBC colleagues have called him to task in the more than 10 days since his loathsome column appeared -- not Joe Scarborough, or Chris Matthews, or Andrea Mitchell.

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The Torture Memos: Dick Cheney vs. Jesus Christ

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judeo-Christian Nation, Jesus Christ, Torture, Dick Cheney, Torture Memos. Constantine, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

These two opposing statements by Dick Cheney and Jesus Christ bring into sharp relief the contradictions of being a country that simultaneously lays claim to Judeo Christian values.

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Top 5 Easter Traditions From Around The World

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Easter Saturday, Easter Holiday, Holidays, Easter Week, Easter, Palm Sunday, Catholicism, Easter Sunday, Bermuda Kites, Holy Week, Bermuda, Norway, Good Friday, Easter Traditions, Jesus Christ, Haiti, Easter Holy Week, Jesus, Christianity, Europe, Sweden, Easter Fires, Easter Traditions Around the World, Traditions of Easter, Easter Celebration Around the World, Easter Monday Traditions, Easter Sweden, Fun Easter Traditions, Easter Photos Around the World, World News

Easter is upon us! Easter Week began this past weekend with Palm Sunday and culminates in weekend commemorations of Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Eas...

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Was Jesus A Yogi?

Tara Stiles | Posted 05.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Gospel, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Discovery Channel, The Inner Life, Yoga, Living News
Tara Stiles

So, I was up late the other night trying to wind down and I got sucked into watching the Discovery channel -- always an educational end to a long day....

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Jesus Tweets

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Holy Season, Old Media vs. New Media, Twitter, Trinity Church, Jesus, Twitter Debate, Stations of the Cross, Trinity Church Wall Street, Lent, Biblical Text Easter, Twittering, Conservative Christians, Wall Street's Trinity Church, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, Bible, New Media, Tweeting, Easter Sunday, Technology, Media News
Martha St Jean

Using 140 characters or less is definitely a new way to tell the story of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Killing Jesus for Today's Market

Spencer Green | Posted 05.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Religion, Easter, Cross, Iconography, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Day Jesus Was Crucified, The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Comedy News
Spencer Green

It is the physical and symbolic focus of worship; it is worn by people as a reminder of their faith. And yet, let's face it, the cross does not have quite the same kick as it used to.

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Jesus' Lost Years May Finally Have Been Found

Paul Davids | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: India, New Testament, Jesus Lost Years, Jesus in India, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Entertainment News
Paul Davids

Long before tech support was out-sourced to India, Christianity's founder may have gone there first.

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Is God Stupid?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Abortion, Single Mothers, Unemployment, God, Imprisonment, Unemployment Rate, The Envirinment, Dropout-Rates, Prayer, Black, Faith, High School Dropouts, Aids, HIV/AIDS Africa, Pope Benedict, Karl Marx, Islam, Jews, Episcopalians, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Green News
Michael Henry Adams

Wouldn't benevolent God be more likely to be like your mother or grandmother, than like most of our fathers? It's not that I am an avowed atheist, no...

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"Ancient" Syriac Bible Found In Cyprus

Yahoo! News | Sarah Ktisti and Simon Bahceli | Posted 03.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Ancient Bible Cyprus, Ancient Bible Discovered, Bible, Jesus Christ, Ancient Syriac Bible Cyprus, Jesus, Living News

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Yankees Finance the Second Coming

Sean Hartofilis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New York Yankees, Sports, Baseball, George Steinbrenner, Curt Schilling, Jesus Christ, Major League Baseball, Brett Favre, Pope Benedict XVI, Entertainment News
Sean Hartofilis

Those players from other clubs who'd always credited the Almighty for their successes seem uncertain about how to deal with Jesus as a Yankee, as he represents one third of the Holy Trinity.

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My Holiday Message

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Gemini 6, Fruitcakes, Jesus Christ, Christmas, Santa Claus, Christianity, Satan Claus, O Tannenbaum, Antioch Jesus Movsement, Holiday Season Commentary, Living News
Patrick Takahashi

While maintaining a somewhat provocative edge, my holiday message provides a bit of humor, followed by compelling evidence on how the Catholic Church might have originated.

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What Would Jesus Do? Ask Thomas Jefferson

Anita Thompson | Posted 01.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Christianity, Thomas Jefferson, Christian Church, Jesus Christ, Barack Obama, Wildlife, Holiday Season Commentary, Living News
Anita Thompson

While reading Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope yesterday, I was reminded of the man (the third president) who distilled the teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Is It True Every Time You Hear an Accordion an Angel Gets Kicked in the Nuts?

Steven Weber | Posted 01.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Holidays, Religion, Christmas Commentary, Jesus Christ, Holiday Commentary, Christmas, Holiday Season Commentary, Style News
Steven Weber

Christmas is the Dick Cheney of holidays -- it purports to be there for noble purposes but blatantly demonstrates wholly unholy ones.

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Guilt, Gelt, and The Gift of Giving

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Holiday Shopping, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Christmas, Presents, Ornaments, Story of Chanukah, Christianity, Menorah, Christmas Shopping, Jews, Judaism, Jewish Culture, Religion and Values, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

Holiday compassion, which most of us value but seldom practice, is the opposite of holiday commercialism, which most of us practice but never value.

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The Fall of a Free Market Prophet

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Economics, Economy, Henry Waxman, Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, Salvation Boulevard, George Bush, Objectivist, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Alan Greenspan, Jesus Christ, Bubble, Real Estate, Crash, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...

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