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King James VI of Scotland was raised as a Presbyterian. Even though his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, had been a Catholic, he was baptized by a Calvinist figure no less prominent than John Knox, sent by John Calvin to Scotland. You would think that when James ascended to the English throne in 1603 that he would have been sympathetic to the English Puritans, for their beliefs also derived from Calvin and his teachings. Instead, within a year of becoming King James I of England, he initiated a project that would attack the Puritans. This project was a new Bible...

Fresh off a vote last week urging our abrupt surrender in Iraq, and just hours removed from coming up 62 votes short in an attempt to override the president's veto, Democrats will use the House floor this afternoon to slide through legislation conceived of, written by, and moved in consultation with a key segment of their special interest constituency. The bill, harmlessly coined "the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act" by House Democrats, would create a nebulous new class of criminals based not on the things they do, but on the basis of what they may or may not...

THE Howard Government says it wants another 600 spies, but it sure won't be hiring people as dumb as you. Reckon I've sold your brains short? Then sit this quick test, Sherlock, which I've drawn up using real cases from the past month. Which two of the following three things are so obviously dangerous that they've just been banned? And which one was this week declared safe for distribution? Exhibit A: Free Bibles placed by Gideons International in the bedside cupboards of public hospitals. Exhibit B: A jokey TV commercial in which Wogs Out of Work's George Kapiniaris complains about...

WASHINGTON — At the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, everyone can get a Koran, but no one gets a Bible. Saifullah Paracha, a 58-year-old former Pakistani businessman with alleged ties to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been in U.S. custody since 2003. Like the other inmates at Guantanamo Bay, he has a copy of the Koran. But he also wants an English translation of the King James version of the Bible. Paracha believes that because the Bible is one of the scriptures accepted in Islam, he is entitled to a copy to read in...

An encounter with a Bedouin robber in a desert valley has led to what one Israeli archaeologist described as one of the most important biblical finds from the region in half a century. Professor Chanan Eshel, an archaeologist from Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, said yesterday that the discovery of two fragments of nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll from the Dead Sea area gave hope to biblical and archaeological scholars, frustrated by a dearth of material unearthed in the region in recent years, that the Judean desert could yet yield further artefacts. "No more scrolls have been found in the...

On June 21, 2005, James Lloyd and Susan Lenox doing business as CHRISTIAN MEDIA NETWORK, working through legal council, have filed a Motion with the Jackson County Circuit Court in Medford Oregon, to EXCLUDE THE HOLY BIBLE from the $200,000 lawsuit which they filed against Linda Kristich on March 18, 2005, for Civil Defamation. Kristich has counter-sued for $5,000,000, also claiming civil defamation. The lawsuit is the result a series of high profile accusations over the past three years between Christian Media Network and a small local ministry located in Jacksonville Oregon. What is most unusual is that Christian Media...

Judaism’s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality    DENNIS PRAGER When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.This revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened...

Many Christians think that Christians celebrate Christ’s birth on December 25th because the church fathers appropriated the date of a pagan festival. Almost no one minds, except for a few groups on the fringes of American Evangelicalism, who seem to think that this makes Christmas itself a pagan festival. But it is perhaps interesting to know that the choice of December 25th is the result of attempts among the earliest Christians to figure out the date of Jesus’ birth based on calendrical calculations that had nothing to do with pagan festivals. Rather, the pagan festival of the “Birth of the...

A speech given at the August 16 rally in support of Chief Justice Roy Moore and the defense of the public acknowledgement of God: The overarching question we face today is: "Who is America's Sovereign?" and "What is His law?". Chief Justice Roy Moore knows the correct answers, but Federal Judge Myron Thompson flunks the test. The Holy Bible makes clear that Jesus Christ is our Sovereign. He is King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Ruler of all nations. America's Founding Fathers understood and acted on this Biblical truth. In our Declaration of Independence, they proclaimed that we are...

It is to long so Click here to read End Time Prophecy Information In the News. Any comments or additions to this? Does anyone feel we are indeed in the end times (prophecised with actual events and Jesus' words speaking on this subject in the Holy Bible)in our daily actions and events big and small in our lives? On the small scale of things I see it more each day, folks are unkind (it seems in an all time highest way), neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend. I can feel it in my gut and soul. Can we please discuss...