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Campbell’s benefit with your clicks

Campbell’s benefit with your clicks

Campbell’s Chunky Soup is having a “Click for Cans” benefit at their site, but only for the winning team. Instead of revving for political parties or war-making among nations, how about voting for your favorite football team? Vote for your favorite football team in the AFC and the NFC, and you will help your favorite team to “Tackle” Hunger. A donation of Campbell’s® soup will be made to a hunger relief charity on behalf of the team with the most…

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Pat Robertson has something in common with JWs

Pat Robertson has something in common with JWs

Wow. This could be right out of an elder’s mouth, straight off the pages of the Watchtower Magazine. See my earlier post on the tract “The End of False Religion is Near.” Robertson Says All Other Religions Worship “Demonic Powers” Why [do] evangelical Christians tell non-Christians that Jesus (God) is the only way to Heaven? Those who are Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, etc. already know and have a relationship with God. Why is this? It seems disrespectful. Robertson replied that it…

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Update on JWs in the News

Update on JWs in the News

Watchtower Cashing In on Real Estate Nonprofits Not Shy About Cashing In on Real Estate Gems In Brooklyn, the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Watchtower Bible & Tract Co. of New York sold a building at 89 Hicks St. to Brooklyn Law School. A few months ago it sold a 48-unit elevator apartment building for $14 million. (Non-JW!) College Students Ban the Pledge I still don’t salute the flag or do the pledge of loyalty to the piece of cloth. I stand in…

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Evangelical Atheists Oppose Christian Nationalism

Evangelical Atheists Oppose Christian Nationalism

I would like to see more opposition to the (so-called) christian nationalism (or dominionism) movement that has such a destructive effect on the American values of liberty, justice, and freedom. Opposition from the perspective of atheism(s) is one method: As an “out atheist,” Collette-Van Deraa said she often feels scorned as the other – “capital O in quotes.” “There are misconceptions that atheists hate anyone who is in organized religion, or that atheists are baby killers or old-people killers,” she…

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Dump this Congress – 109 Reasons Why

Dump this Congress – 109 Reasons Why

Great List! 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress from The Progress Report Issue 11/07/2006, by Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney, Amanda Terkel and Payson Schwin We need a new Congress — here’s why: 1. Congress set a record for the fewest number of days worked — 218 between the House and Senate combined. [Link] 2. The Senate voted down a measure that urged the administration to start a phased redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq by the…

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