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Religion RSS FeedsGeorge Bush: Bible ?probably? not literal - After plunging America into an illegal war based on lies and deceit, presiding over human rights abuses -- including the promotion and use of torture (and of course lying about it) -- and taking away many basis freedoms (all the while suggesting he is doing all this with God's approval), George Bush now attacks the Bible and again shows that he is not the evangelical Christian he claims to be.Interviewer Cynthia McFadden asked Bush if the Bible was literally true. "You know. Probably not. No, I'm not a literalist "...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Investigators take DNA from FLDS baby during raid - Investigators from the Texas attorney general?s office on Monday took DNA samples from a baby born to a member of a polygamist sect months after a high-profile raid, thwarting efforts by the baby?s mother to prevent the sample from being collected.Child Protective Services said in court filings that investigators believe the girl was married to a man in the sect when she was 14.... Trial of cult leader Wayne Bent opens - Wayne Bent, 67, lay in bed naked and "chest to chest, skin to skin" with a 14-year-old girl, Deputy District Attorney Tomas Benavidez told jurors. He had a similar encounter with her 16-year-old sister, the prosecutor said.Bent, who calls himself Michael Travesser, was a minister for the Seventh-day Adventist Church but separated from that church 21 years ago and continued to preach. He claims God spoke to him in 2000 and told him he was the Messiah.... Detroit Churches Pray for ?God?s Bailout? - The Sunday service at Greater Grace Temple began with the Clark Sisters song ?I?m Looking for a Miracle? and included a reading of this verse from the Book of Romans: ?I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.?Pentecostal Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who shared the sanctuary?s wide altar with three gleaming sport utility vehicles, closed his sermon by leading the choir and congregants in a boisterous rendition of the gospel singer Myrna Summers?s ?We?re Gonna Make It? as hundreds of worshipers who work in the automotive industry ? union assemblers, executives, car salesmen ? gathered six deep around the altar to have their foreheads anointed with c... Alleged abuse of abducted ?miracle child? poses more questions for council that failed Baby P. - Police are investigating allegations of serious abuse of a five-year-old victim of child trafficking while he was in the care of Haringey, the London council that failed to prevent the death of Baby P. The boy had been snatched from his home in Africa and presented to a follower of Gilbert Deya, a self-styled archbishop who claimed to be able to cure infertility through prayer. Once the child was in the UK, the follower adopted the boy - known as Child C - as a "miracle baby". He was seized by police and since 2003 has been passed between six different sets of carers. Deya faces ... New York Times ad blasts ire aimed at LDS - Declaring "no mob veto," a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday denounced the "violence and intimidation" directed at members of the LDS Church who supported California's ban on gay marriage.In a statement Friday, church officials expressed gratitude to the dozen civil rights and religious leaders, ranging from Catholic to evangelical Christian to Orthodox Jew, who attached their names to the advertisement.... Jeremy Steinke convicted in murder of girlfriend?s family - Just days after Jeremy Steinke was arrested in the killing of a Medicine Hat couple and their young son, the 23-year-old told police that he participated in the slayings because he wanted to "impress" his 12-year-old girlfriend, who was the mastermind behind the plot to murder her family.Jurors in the Court of Queen's Bench in Calgary took 11 hours to convict Mr. Steinke, now 25, of three counts of first-degree murder in the April, 2006, deaths of an eight-year-old boy and his parents. The couple's daughter, known in court as J.R., was convicted last year on the same set of charges. Neith... Cult leader Wayne Bent goes to trial - The man who said that he only answers to god will soon be answering to a judge and a jury of his peers.
The trial of cult leader Wayne Bent is scheduled to begin Monday, on charges that he sexually abused some of his underage female followers.Bent has predicted dire consequences for the world if he is put on trial. (Don't worry, though. His prophecies -- such as the world ending last Oct. 31 -- are as fake ... Mayor abandons anti-drug program affiliated with Church of Scientology - The city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is immediately ending an anti-drug program aimed at third-graders after it was revealed it was created and bankrolled by the Church of Scientology.In 2005, California State Superintendent Jack O?Connell urged all California schools to drop a Scientology-related antidrug education program after a state evaluation concluded that its curriculum offers inaccurate and unscientific information.... Televangelist?s $3.6 million jet not tax-exempt, appraiser says - A Kenneth Copeland Ministry jet worth $3.6 million has been denied tax-exempt status by the Tarrant Appraisal District, setting the stage for a battle that could require the minister to reveal his salary if he wants the jet to be tax-free.Compensation paid Copeland and other members of his family has been the source of a U.S. senator?s inquiry, but the televangelist has been unwilling to disclose the information publicly.
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