Furthermore, historian Nicholas Rogers claims: Halloween is currently the second most important party night in North America. In terms of its retail potential, it is second only to Christmas. This commercialism fortifies its significance as a time of public license, a custom-designed opportunity to have a blast. Regardless of its spiritual complications, Halloween is big business.
Read moreThis is one example of hundreds of new cases of attacks on religious liberty by our government.
In fact, the 2,200 attendees at the Family Research Council's Value Voters Summit last weekend - declared that multiple threats to religious liberty was their deepest concern.
Read moreThe training session reportedly linked the AFA to hate groups such as Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, the Black Panthers, and the Nation of Islam.
A Christian soldier attending the training session snapped a photo of a slide show that labeled the Christian group.
"I had to show Americans what our soldiers are now being taught," said the soldier to Fox News, who asked not to be identified. "I couldn't just let this one pass."
Read moreChristian Wedding Vendors Under Attack
Read moreNew Jersey Judge Mary Jacobson agreed with gay plaintiffs that the state's civil union law puts them at an impermissible disadvantage because the Federal Government only recognizes legal marriages, and Gov. Christie vetoed a gay marriage bill.
Attorneys Ted Olson and David Boyce, who won the California Prop 8 case in the U.S. Supreme Court, have filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia, which is known to make quick decisions.
Read moreThe mission of the Catalyst conference seems simple. So, why is Mayor Booker hoisted between speakers like Dave Ramsey and John Piper at a conference supposedly geared towards worshiping Jesus Christ, not catapulting Senate campaigns? There is an answer, but it is not so simple: Liberal Christians - despite how "apolitical" they claim to be - are feeding a repackaged version of evangelicalism to millennials for their own radical and, yes, political agenda.
Read moreIn fact, as explained by Warraq and in books like The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)and What's So Great About Christianity, the Christian world was reduced to about one-third of what it was by the sword of jihad. The Crusades were launched with the objective of, without any exaggeration, saving Europe and Western civilization from Sharia.
Read moreHowever, words matter. Dr. M. (Mohamed) Zuhdi Jasser, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, told Fox: "Most Muslims are moderate. In Egypt tens of millions of Muslims - the largest demonstrations in humanity - marched against the Muslim Brotherhood who the Muslims do not want to lead. "
Read moreIndeed, on the homosexual issue, conservatives seem divided between a "live and let live" attitude and one that concludes that the homosexual agenda will have to be curtailed if the Judeo-Christian culture is to survive. However, overwhelming evidence supports the belief that homosexuality is a sexual deviancy often accompanied by disorders that have dire consequences for our culture.
Read moreBut shortly thereafter, this teenager discovers that there are others like him, and often through the support and encouragement of a gay counselor, coach, teacher or religious leader, he decides that gay is "who he is." The adoption of this gay identity necessitates the abandonment of any hope that he could ever modify his unwanted feelings and develop his heterosexual potential. He must surrender his earlier wish that he could have a conventional marriage and family.
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