Interfaith Religious News Service

Published on Friday, September 19, 2008 by TruthDig.com
by William Pfaff

Karl Marx, were he still about, would surely be interested in the report that unregulated free-market capitalism has died in a flash, by its own hand; whereas it took 70 years and a Cold War to bring down the Marxist economy established in the Soviet Union […]

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The Post Modern Church and The Used Car Salesman Mentality
by Father Ed Crabtree
An Op-Editorial; August 10, 2008
 
 
In retail sales we often hear about the abhorrent business practices of merchants that focus only on making the sale to the customer, providing little or no service after the sale, no technical support, even selling inferior quality merchandise. […]

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by Deb Della Piana    
http://www.opednews.com
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Our citizens may be deceived for a while, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.” For the past eight years, George W. Bush has been breaking both national and international laws with reckless abandon and […]

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April 16, 2008 at 00:14:08
http://www.opednews.com
 by Cosmic 
“The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you put in the bank belongs to the poor.” … […]

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By The Editorial Board | Saturday, April 12, 2008, 05:20 PM
Copyright 2008 The Austin American-Statesman.
Freedom to worship as one chooses without government interference is a fundamental tenet of the U.S. Constitution. It is right there in the First Amendment. All constitutional rights, however, have boundaries.

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Enough already.
by Dale Wiley
News-Leader Springfield MO
It seems that I am unable to pick up a newspaper that does not have at least one discourse about the Christian heritage of our nation.
I agree that our Constitution is the greatest document a government has ever produced. And you can’t read the history of the American Revolution and […]

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By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
http://www.alternet.org/story/76686/
Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right. These self-described former Muslim terrorists are regularly trotted out — a few days ago they were at the Air Force Academy — to spew racist filth about Islam on behalf of groups such as Focus on the […]

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Perhaps Christians in America should take a look at what is happening in other countries which might compared to a mirror image of what is happening here.
In an article on religion.info (see http://religion.info/english/articles/article_357.shtml ) the author makes the following observations regarding Christians in Korea;
“…….some South Koreans are increasingly skeptical about the size and power of […]

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There is a story about a Christian minister living abroad during World War II. His congregation sends him money so that he can return home for Christmas. When he doesn’t come back, they ask him why. He says that he used the money to help a group of Jews escape Hitler’s death camps and flee […]

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washingtonpost.com
BOSTON—He was married once, for 13 years. They bought and sold a few houses together. One day she told him she was seeing someone else, and he packed his things and tucked them into a corner of the garage. Now, Jim Oldread’s things are few: A backpack, his clothes, the change in his pockets from […]

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