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Head of Lehava, known for violent campaign against Jew-Arab assimilation, risks arrest with public defence of setting fire to Holy Land churches ' The leader of a far-Right Israeli group has risked arrest by apparently voicing support for arson attacks on Christian churches amid an official crackdown on Jewish extremism. Benzi Gopstein, the outspoken head of Lehava - which has drawn notoriety for its violent assaults on Jewish-Arab assimilation - made the remarks at a panel discussion for Jewish yeshiva students when asked by a fellow panelist if he believed burning down churches in Israel was justified. He later tried...

Today is the first Sunday in Lent for Eastern Orthodox churches, and by tradition this is the Sunday of Orthodoxy, a celebration of the seven ecumenical councils that defined the faith of the undivided church, and in particular of the seventh council, the Second Council of Nicaea, which defined the proper veneration of icons. Icons, of course, are a form of liturgical art most associated with churches of the Byzantine or eastern Christian tradition, but have in recent years become once again a source of interest and inspiration to Christians outside of Eastern Orthodoxy, including a great many Anglicans....

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. — Exodus 20:4–6 (ESV) As the Mel Gibson extravaganza...

It never ceases to amaze me that most Christians would criticize me for being an atheist, yet they will "celebrate" a macabre pagan holiday. They inculcate their children into the practice of it and feed them the most unhealthful things you could give a child to eat. Likewise, many atheists criticize me for being a "right-winger." Most atheists are so caught up in their polemics, they have become nothing more than anti-Christians - or what I call the Religious Left (a collaboration of the Marxist religion, neo-pagan animal/tree/earth worshipper eco-fascists and general technophobes). Why do you "celebrate" on certain "holidays,"...