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Answering theological questions from his students has been a continual commitment throughout Dr. R.C. Sproul’s ministry. Originally called “gabfests” by his early students and later, “Ask R.C.,” these sessions continue to take place at our conferences, on Renewing Your Mind, and online. Have a theological question for Dr. Sproul? Submit your questions on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ using the official #AskRC hashtag. We’ll compile those questions and Dr. Sproul will answer a selection live tonight at 7:30pm ET. Watch live tonight at live.ligonier.org.

While some current church leaders portray the LDS Church as Christian, the church actually has a long history of condemning Christianity. The church has also stated repeatedly that no one can be saved without the permission of Joseph Smith. The church has even suggested that Islam is better than Christianity. Mormon Church Condemns Christians "This is not just another Church. This is not just one of a family of Christian churches. This is the Church and kingdom of God, the only true Church upon the face of the earth..." - Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.164-165...

Video of a member of Hemet Calvary Chapel being arrested for reading the Bible to people standing in line at the local DMV office by a CHP officer.

BAGHDAD — Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday. Some 3,000 Christians have fled the city over the past week alone in a "major displacement," said Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula, the governor of northern Iraq's Ninevah province. He said most have left for churches, monasteries and the homes of relatives in nearby Christian villages and towns. "The Christians were subjected to abduction attempts and paid ransom, but now they are subjected to a...

Steyn: ...while in Canada Lori Andreachuk, Alberta "human rights" commissar, sentences an evangelical pastor to a lifetime speech ban. He is never to utter anything "disparaging" about homosexuals ever again for as long as he lives. Note that legal concept: not "illegal", not "hateful", but "disparaging". From Ezra Levant, another victim of the "speech crimes" commissars in Canada: What could Mark Steyn's punishment look like, if he's convicted by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal? It could look like this order, issued just last week by Alberta's human rights commission, against a Christian pastor named Rev. Stephen Boission. (The substantive ruling...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=418_1176494781 I think this guy had some great commentary...enjoy

Los Angeles, December 5, 2005 -- Beyond Belief Media has formally  declared war on Christmas, the December 25 holiday in which  Christians celebrate the birth of the mythical figure Jesus Christ,  the company announced today. “Christian conservatives complain nonstop about the ‘War on  Christmas,’ but there really isn’t any such war,” said Beyond  Belief Media president Brian Flemming, a former fundamentalist  Christian who is now an atheist activist. “So we have decided to  wage one, to demonstrate what it would look like if Jesus’ birthday  were truly attacked.” As its opening salvo, Beyond Belief Media has purchased  advertisements this week...

I doubt that Mel Gibson will have as difficult a time in finding a willing distributor for his next film - even if it will upset secular Hollywood again. Mel Gibson recently bought the rights to the book, “Stealing from Angels,” which involves the three secrets of Fatima. The last surviving witness to whom the Virgin Mary appeared near Fatima, Sister Lucia de Jesus de Santos, died two weeks ago at age 97 in Portugal. The first two parts of the three Fatima prophecies have been known for decades and are interpreted as predicting World War I and World War...

Many thought that a clear lesson about the size and function of the state had been learned from twentieth-century history, particularly with the collapse of communism. Human well-being required a very limited state. The state itself had turned into man’s greatest enemy, so its purpose and centrality needed rethinking. Economic prosperity could be best achieved through the free operation of the market. Most institutions of culture should be left in the hands of voluntary agencies. These organs of culture–museums, galleries, and theaters–should not be administered by state bureaucracies. Education and the press should not be state-run monopolies. Religion should be...

The Big Lie is as prevalent in public life today as it was in Hitler’s Germany. So rash and irresponsible is European reporting about the Middle East that in a recent European Union poll Israel was regarded as the number one threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea. This view so strains credulity, that it appears as if a kind of brainwashing that afflicted Germans during World War II has occurred in Europe today. Moreover, it confirms a deeply held suspicion among many Jews that anti-semitism has raised its ugly head in Europe yet again. A European...

Atomic Jihad Reportedly has Been Declared: "Nuclear Warfare is the Solution for Destroying America" The coming days will prove that Kaedat el-Jihad [the Al-Qaeda organization] is capable of turning America into a sea of deadly radiation, and this will prove to the world that the end is at hand.... Yes, we will destroy America and its allies, because they have used their power for evil against the weak...

<p>An Al Qaeda web site is running a warning issued to Muslims to leave Washington, D.C., New York City and Los Angeles because of implied imminent terrorist attacks, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.</p> <p>Titled "A Warning to Muslims in America," the directive was issued by the previously unknown "Islamic Bayan Movement" and first ran on the Global Islamic Media Web site on Monday, according to MEMRI, which translated the communiqué.</p>

Two men who claimed to be reincarnated vampires have been banned from a churchyard and warned that they face jail after they were found guilty yesterday of religiously harassing a vicar. The condition that they do not enter St Mary the Virgin parish church at Eling, near Southampton, Hants, was imposed by a judge who delayed sentencing them until he had seen reports. He told Scott Bower, 26, Ben Lewis, 25, and Natalie Gibson, 19, that their behaviour towards the Rev Chris Rowberry, his wife and two children, had been "outrageous and disturbing". During a seven-day trial at Southampton Crown...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the "Jewish" toy - already banned in the kingdom - are offensive to Islam. The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are officially known, lists the dolls on a section of its Web site devoted to items deemed offensive to the conservative Saudi interpretation of Islam. "Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let...

<p>SYDNEY, Australia — A man shouting threats used a sharpened wooden instrument to try to force his way into the cockpit of a domestic Qantas (search) flight Thursday, stabbing two flight attendants in his attempt, the government said.</p> <p>The plane had departed the southeastern city of Melbourne (search) for the southern island of Tasmania when he tried to storm the cockpit, Transport Minister John Anderson told reporters in a hastily arranged press briefing.</p>

The good news is that Tam Dalyell's outburst to Vanity Fair — in which he suggested Tony Blair was unduly influenced by a Jewish cabal — has not been ignored. His remarks made all the papers, proof that anti-semitism is no longer an uncontroversial part of public conversation. That's welcome. If there is bad news it's that Dalyell has been treated as a naughty boy — "incorrigible," said Peter Mandelson — rather than as a man who has uttered a racist slur. Bad news, too, that so far much of the condemnation has come from Jews rather than Dalyell's comrades...

One in five British Muslims feels little loyalty towards Britain, according to a poll for The Daily Telegraph. The YouGov survey also found that a minority of Muslims were not prepared to condemn the terrorist attacks carried out by Osama bin Laden nor acknowledge al-Qa'eda as the perpetrators. Just under half of those surveyed did not accept that the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were carried out by Muslims. However, the poll suggests that the majority of British Muslims wish no ill towards the West and are concerned that the attitudes of some are damaging Islam's...