If Jesus Is God, And He Meant The Things He Said, Torture Is Wrong | Cruelty Is Central To Trump's Appeal | Just Say No—To Local Church Options For The UMC | Embassy To Jerusalem: Right Move, But Is Trump The One To Do It? | Jeffress & Jerusalem Embassy—Why We Need Church-State Separation | Pastor Who Said Jews "Can't Be Saved" To Give Jerusalem Embassy Prayer
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If Jesus Is God, And He Meant The Things He Said, Torture Is Wrong
Is torture wrong?  How about slavery? Is there anything wrong with that? Let's talk about rape and sexual assault. Is there a moral problem with those things? How about constant lying? Misogyny?... Read more
by Rebecca Hamilton   | Public Catholic
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Cruelty Is Central To Trump's Appeal
"The harmfulness of the policy isn't incidental—it's the whole point, and it's par for the course from an administration for whom cruelty is a watchword."  Read more
by Fred Clark   | slacktivist
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Just Say No—To Local Church Options For The UMC
Annual Conferences are just around the corner all over the USA and there will be petitions submitted to annual conferences suggesting something along the lines of a local church option when it comes... Read more
by Ben Witherington   | The Bible and Culture
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Embassy To Jerusalem: Right Move, But Is Trump The One To Do It?
The move of the United States embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is the right thing to do, and should have been done a long time ago. In fact, when Bill Clinton signed the Jerusalem... Read more
by Susan Wright   | Susan Wright on the Right
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Jeffress & Jerusalem Embassy—Why We Need Church-State Separation
When an fundamentalist preacher represents the United States at the dedication of a new diplomatic building in a foreign country, the First Amendment is violated. For Donald Trump, this was a... Read more
by John Beckett   | John Beckett
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Pastor Who Said Jews "Can't Be Saved" To Give Jerusalem Embassy Prayer
Pastor Robert Jeffress has no business giving a prayer at the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Read more
by Hemant Mehta   | Friendly Atheist
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