Pious but moderate: Obama’s visit to conservative Indonesia - The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
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Pious but moderate: Obama's visit to conservative IndonesiaThe Pew Forum on Religion & Public LifeWhen Barack Obama arrives in Indonesia this month he will find a country far different from the one he lived in. …CAPITAL CULTURE: Indonesia remembers young ObamaThe Associated PressObama's Australian trip cut to Canberra stopoverThe AustralianRudd will be hoping some [...]
Religion In Decline
When you no longer have actual religious faith, you get this kind of thing instead:
Several prominent Anglican British bishops are urging Christians to keep their carbon consumption in check this Lent. …
[T]his year’s initiative aims to convince those observing Lent to try a day without an iPod or mobile phone in a bid to reduce [...]
Brit Hume on Tiger Woods, no big deal
Ramesh Ponnuru and Peter Wehner have both posted defenses of Brit Hume’s expression of hope that Tiger Woods will convert to Christianity because Christianity offers a forgiveness and redemption that cannot be found in Buddhism. Woods, apparently, is a Buddhist.
It seems to me that there are at least two issues here: (1) [...]
Lord Monckton politely exposes a Greenpeace-campaigner’s blind faith in man-made global warming (Video)
Lord Monckton confronts a member of Greenpeace with her ignorance and blind faith. She’s a very nice lady, but like so many of her fellow believers in the religion of global warming, she’s terribly misguided, blindly accepts AGW propaganda, and knows absolutely nothing about the truth:
H/t - TomLLewis
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Let’s not get carried away
I liked much of President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech well enough, but I wouldn’t try to build a religion around it. Or even a doctrine.
Yet, according to Politico, some folks (I suspect White House spinmeisters) purport to see the making of an Obama doctrine: “a notion that foreign policy is a struggle of [...]
Video: You cannot debate Islam. But inciting murder in front of the police seems fine
This is the result of Europe’s submission to Islam and the erosion of free speech that results from anti-free speech laws and resolutions such as the Obama administration has just signed onto at the UN. Watch the video and you clearly see that from the mouths of the Muslims themselves - Islam’s goal is suppression [...]
