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Dolores Gresham, Republican candidate for the 26th District state senate race, apparently has a new campaign slogan.  According to the Donkey’s Mouth, Gresham distributed “How Would Jesus Vote?” buttons at her campaign stop in Pickwick last Thursday.
Eh, it isn’t a new slogan.  It was popular among Bush supporters in `04.  So, it’s possible Gresham just [...]

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One of the mommy friends called me a few days ago. She’d read online that the Hawkins County school system was shifting to biometric IDs to track lunch accounts: she thought we should protest.
Huh?
I’d heard the cafeterias were shifting to biometric identification. The school system had solicited public comment [...]

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Tennessee is one of the five most religious states in the country, according to a survey released Monday, but the Times-News reports the Volunteer State’s faithful aren’t dogmatic in their beliefs, and they’re open to spiritual alternatives.
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Six in 10 Tennessee residents told researchers they believe many religions could lead to eternal life, twice as many [...]

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Local Baptists, who firmly believe we are fighting to take back the world from the *heathens, are rejoicing today over the passage of Tennessee House Bill 4089.
The bill authorizes the state board of education to develop and adopt a curriculum for a state-funded elective course consisting of a nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible [...]

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This morning I received an email, which supposedly contained photos of an 8-year old Muslim child. According to the email, the kid had stolen a piece of bread and, under Sharia law, his punishment was to have his arm crushed by a vehicle.
Furthermore, the sender states this is one of the many reasons we [...]

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Former vice president and Nobel prize winner Al Gore addressed 2,500 Baptist preachers and leaders at the New Baptist Covenant Celebration.

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My friend, Gwendolyn, is dabbling in some kind of new-age, hocus-pocus type religion. Or maybe it’s Hinduism or Buddhism. I can’t remember, and I don’t pretend to know. Honestly, if it’s not based on a book wherein Jesus’ words are written in red – it is [...]

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Earlier today, a group of friends and I were discussing the Huckabee headline of the day. Here’s a nice summary from Daily Kos:

In August of 1998, Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full page USA Today Ad which declared: “I affirm the statement on the family issued by the 1998 [...]

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On the way home from dropping Smartypants and Diva at school, I caught a report claiming that Colorado Police are searching for a link between the two gunmen who opened fire on churches in Colorado. One attack occurred at a youth missionary center in the Denver suburb of Arvada and another at New Life [...]

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I am sure most of you have received the following warning:.
HELP US STOP THE MOVIE ABOUT KILLING GOD!!!! THE GOLDEN COMPASS, a new movie targeted at children, will be released December 7, 2007. This movie is based on the first book of a trilogy by atheist Philip Pullman. In the final book a boy [...]

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