http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/god/ en-us Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:30:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102487/posts The following prayer was part of a story from the Anglican Communion News Service sent to me by a friend. It can be found online at on the Prayers for Today section of the Church of England’s website and has been viewed more than 8000 times since it was published in September. Lord God, we live in disturbing days: across the world, prices rise, debts increase, banks collapse, jobs are taken away, and fragile security is under threat. Loving God, meet us in our fear and hear our prayer: be a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands, and a... St. Louis Post-Disgrace http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102487/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:30:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099367/posts I have grown sick and tired of the incessant Bush bashing in this country. Why don't John McCain and Sarah Palin stand up and call a spade a spade? For all their trashing talking, the fact is that not one Democrat can dispute this simple truth - George Bush has kept us safe since 9/11/01. Barack Obama and the Democrats, and worse yet, the average Democrat on the street, are going to drag this country under and sink it forever if we do not stop them dead in their tracks. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099367/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 06:36:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099118/posts As I was listening to this morning's crushing stock market news, another headline picture jumped out at me. It looked like some sort of new science fiction movie, but it was just Pierre Cardin's new spring/sumer line. I like to look for connections, and I believe there is a tie between our economic free fall and our cultural free fall. I suspect fashion designers lunge at the outrageous to get attention, and my daughters assure me that no sane woman ever wears this stuff, unless they are getting paid for it, but the very idea of even proposing it seems... Riley's Farm Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099118/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:12:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098153/posts Honestly, this is a stressful time for those of us who stand to the right in this election year. Many of us feel that this could be a major turning point in our country because of the stance and political viewpoints of our opponents on the left. Their very liberal views and policies have the potential to be destructive to this country we love. Their pro-abortion policies alone are enough for me to head in the opposite direction. My wife recently said, "If a candidate does not recognize the sanctity of life then I care very little where he stands... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098153/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:01:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096950/posts Up front, this is a vanity post. Vanity in that this is my personal "heart" regarding the current time in which we live. I welcome your feedback and comments. The 2008 election is one that according to who you listen you "The most important election in our history". On one side, Barack Obama & Joe Biden. On the other John McCain and Sarah Palin. One candidate believes the "He is a symbol". The other believes he has a duty to protect and defend American. On one side you have a vp candidate with 30+ years experience in politics. On the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096950/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:40:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096666/posts Here is a novel idea coming to Southwestern Pennsylvania for Election Day: Sign up to become a “pollworker,” paid by a “non-partisan effort,” and then ensure that people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote actually will get to vote. This from “Pollworkers for Democracy,” which uses fear tactics based on the recent mortgage crisis as a hook to snag people living on the edge of financial problems: “Imagine being told you've lost the right to vote because the bank foreclosed on your home,” begins the e-mail. It goes on to say that if you lose your home and have to... PIttsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096666/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:17:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2096628/posts New Christian Song Sparks Controversy Fireworks Contemporary Orthodox Christian singer/songwriter, Jim Giatas, has written and recorded “If You Imagine” as an answer to former Beatle, John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” “If You Imagine” has generated significant criticism. One writer called it blasphemy. On MySpace, Vangellis responded that it was: “A terrible denigration of Lennon's ode to reason. And the fireworks are just beginning. “John’s song has gone virtually unchallenged for all these years and I felt compelled to write an answer to it from my own conservative Orthodox Christian faith.” It can be heard for free on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMM3WZ7AErA “I... PR Log ^ | September 29, 2008 | Jim Giatas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2096628/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:31:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095933/posts Reducing Human Behavior to Natural Laws Oct 02, 2008 — Can human behavior be reduced to natural laws that science can study in a morally neutral way? Darwin sought to incorporate all aspects of the living world, including behavior, in natural laws that were amenable to scientific explanation. Evolutionary biologists and neuroscientists continue in that tradition today. Consider two recent examples in the literature that described how human behavior evolves. 1. One nation, under Darwin: PhysOrg published a short article 9/24/08 about how a strong leader can benefit society. “In a study that looks at the evolutionary role of leaders... CreationEvolutionHeadlines http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095933/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:50:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094292/posts Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen to rally for Sen. Barack Obama in Philly on Saturday -- for a last minute push to register rockers, young and old to vote. The concert takes place this Saturday and voter registration deadline is the following Monday. Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094292/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:20:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2094026/posts Sing for Obama Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2094026/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:33:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093960/posts If pro is the opposite of con, then progress is definitely the opposite of congress. Yesterday the number 777 -- not exactly the sign of the devil more like the sign of the discontent of the American people -- became the headlines in most major newspapers across the country as the market plummeted. And the markets fell thanks to the vote against the Paulsen Bail Out Plan. Many lawmakers voted not their party -- much to the chagrin of Nancy Pelosi and Roy Blunt who both thought they had the deliverables to pass the bill –- instead they voted the... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093960/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:36:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093166/posts GOLD, GOD, AND OBAMA Will Rogers, the Garrison Keillor of a distant generation, famously said that he wasn’t a member of any organized political party, since he was a Democrat, and that people should invest in real estate since it’s the only thing not being made anymore. In this market, I wouldn’t invest in real estate, or bonds, or most common stocks; I’d buy gold, silver, and other precious metals and stuff them under your mattress until things shake out. (See: http://money.aol.com/.) ……………………………………………………………………………………. Rush A-home-a: Just because the legislation represents the most significant excursion into socialism in our nation’s history,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093166/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093124/posts During the time of the ancient Greeks, there were many philosophers whose ideas became very popular in the Greek city-states. Today, some of these philosophers’ ideas are still popular. These philosophers were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They attempted to find an explanation of the order, design, and purpose of the universe. They also attempted to find philosophical absolute truths. However, they placed man at the center of everything, instead of a divine Creator who advocated a way of life that required His creation to live by His absolute truths. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093124/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:34:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090707/posts When federal judges in San Francisco ruled in 2002 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because it included the phrase “under God,” Sarah Palin was not amused. Palin, who at the time was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, quickly drafted a terse letter to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper. “Dear Editor,” Palin wrote in 2002. “San Francisco judges forbidding our Pledge of Allegiance? They will take the phrase ‘under God’ away from me when my cold, dead lips can no longer utter those words,” Palin wrote. “God Bless America,” she concluded. STOP THE ACLU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090707/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:30:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087129/posts Neo-atheism has had a very successful publishing run over the past several years, with best-selling books by Christopher Hitchens ("god is not great"), Sam Harris ("Letter to a Christian Nation") and Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion"), among others. But this year there has been an equally impressive counter-phenomenon. Three recent books, written from three widely divergent perspectives, have responded to the arguments of neo-atheism with both intellectual force and literary grace. In April, David Berlinski, a secular Jew and well-known skeptic of Darwinism, who holds a Ph. D. in Philosophy from Princeton and has written widely on mathematics and science,... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087129/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:06:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086933/posts YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- You just knew that when Joe O'Connell, former head of the local AFL-CIO, got on stage here with John McCain and Sarah Palin things were not going smoothly for the Obama campaign among union voters. "I am a lifelong Democrat, an intelligent Democrat, who is supporting John McCain," O'Connell said last week as a crowd of 7,000 waved "Another Democrat for John McCain" signs and roared its approval. TRIBUNE-REVIEW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086933/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:34:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2086743/posts Darwin Quotes: 1. “The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.” 2. “It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist. 3. “I hardly see how religion & science can be kept as distinct as [Edward Pusey] desires… But I most wholly agree… that there is no reason why the disciples of either school should attack each other with bitterness.” 4. “In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2086743/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:59:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080053/posts Sept 10, 2008 — Astrobiologist David Deamer believes that life can spontaneously emerge without design, but he thinks lay people are too uneducated to understand how this is possible, so he gives them the watered-down version of Darwin’s natural selection instead, which he knows is inadequate to explain the complexity of life. That’s what he seemed to be telling reporter Susan Mazur in an interview for the Scoop (New Zealand). Is the lay public really too dense for the deeper knowledge of how evolution works?... CreationEvolutionHeadlines http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080053/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:55:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2086309/posts Coming: God's Solutions to the World's Problems Nearly everywhere we look, the world seems to be spinning out of control. Why do we see so many problems? Can we find a solution? Does the Bible offer hope for answers? by Roger Foster Everywhere we look, we see the storm clouds of global peril. Disasters of all shapes and sizes are increasingly transforming how we live. Skyrocketing oil prices and a housing/debt crisis shake the economy. A worldwide economic slowdown seems imminent. Floods and drought contribute to food shortages, riots, hunger and starvation. Even diseases once considered conquered are making a... Good News Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2086309/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:27:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085731/posts HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY for Paul Harvey. I myself have been grumbling and wondering how a handful of people have been able to take our right to pray in public places away from us. So, agreeing with Paul, I GLADLY will forward this email AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN. Folks, this is the Month that we RE-TAKE AMERICA********* Get Ready ********* Keep this going around the globe ... Read it and forward every time you receive it. We can't give up on this issue. Paul Harvey and Prayer Paul Harvey says:I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue... Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085731/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:10:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2082504/posts When Paul came to Athens he saw all around him the evidences of a pagan culture. Acts 17:16 "Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was beholding the city full of idols." He was taken to the Areopagus where the philosophers met. There he said, Acts 17:22-23 ... "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you... The Genevan Institute For Reformed Studies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2082504/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:48:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080979/posts A majority of Americans recognize that the MSM has a bias, and a plurality understand that the bias is leftwards. That is good. But how many Americans catch every correction, every chastening by new media?Recognition of the general concept of bias is not enough. People need to know of all the instances, such as this one:Charles Gibson Gets It WrongABC has released excerpts from Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin, and in one of them, he attempts to catch her out by asking her to explain something she said: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080979/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:57:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2080482/posts I keep hearing the lefty commies cringe at any mention of God, as if Palin is a wacko. Who can help direct me to a list of quotes from past Presidents or other historical figures, esp. dems, who have mentioned God, faith and such? Maybe there is a list here already. Thanks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2080482/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:35:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078830/posts A math teacher sued his school district after the principal told him the words "In God We Trust" and "All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator" must be removed from his homeroom wall because they convey a Judeo-Christian viewpoint. In January, Principal Dawn Kastner told Westview High School math teacher Bradley Johnson that a banner he had posted in his classroom for 25 years, and another that was posted for 17 years, needed to come down. The older banner, measuring 7 feet by 2 feet, contained the words "In God We Trust," "One Nation Under God,"... worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078830/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:34:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077799/posts This video was taken from the Wasilla Assembly of God Church in Wasilla, Alaska. The church's website has been taken down due to heavy traffic after Governor Palin was selected by Senator John McCain as his running mate. We believe this is an important video for Christians to watch and it is presented here courtesy of Wasilla Assembly of God Church www.wasillaag.net. The church website states that "Governor Palin did attended Wasilla Assembly of God since the time she was a teenager. She and her family were a part of the church up until 2002. Since that time she has... www.wasillaag.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077799/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:08:13 GMT