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January 21 2008 By virtueonline If God is everywhere, why do so few people find Him?

After all, not only is God omnipresent, but we're told His greatest desire is to have a personal relationship with each of us, whom He created in His image - to direct our paths and become our ultimate destiny. In other words, to be our God.

Why then are so many of us so lost?

January 17 2008 By virtueonline U.S. religious freedom is being eroded, advocates say

Only a slim majority (56 percent) of Americans said in a 2007 survey that freedom of worship should extend to people of all religious groups, no matter what their beliefs (down 16 points, from 72 percent in 2000).

"A great many Americans don't define religious liberty as a universal right for everyone," says Charles Haynes, one of the honorees. He is senior scholar at Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center, which conducted the survey.

January 17 2008 By virtueonline The Cost of Roe at 35

Roe and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, took the question of endowment of life by "our Creator" and placed it in the hands of individuals. History has shown what happens when humanity seizes such power for itself: political dictatorships, eugenics and scientific experiments unrestrained by any moorings to a moral code.

January 17 2008 By virtueonline ACLU Backs Gay Sex in Public Toilets under "Privacy" Provisions

ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said, "The real motive behind secret sting operations like the one that resulted in Sen. Craig's arrest is not to stop people from inappropriate activity. It is to make as many arrests as possible - arrests that sometimes unconstitutionally trap innocent people." Solicitation for private sex is protected speech under the First Amendment, the ACLU argues.

January 13 2008 By virtueonline The Bible v the Koran. The battle of the books

Yet over 100m copies of the Bible are sold or given away every year. Annual Bible sales in America are worth between $425m and $650m; Gideon's International gives away a Bible every second. The Bible is available all or in part in 2,426 languages, covering 95% of the world's population.

January 13 2008 By virtueonline Christian, Mormon doctrinal differences

THE DOCTRINE OF GOD:

– Historic Christianity

January 10 2008 By virtueonline Texas schools' moment of silence upheld after Carrollton couple's challenge

But U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn in Dallas upheld the statute this week.

She said the law - amended in 2003 to add the word "pray" to "reflect" and "meditate" as options for students' use of the minute - does not promote an "excessive entanglement between government and religion."

January 07 2008 By virtueonline Nietzsche Would Laugh

Not surprisingly, Richard Dawkins offers a "yes"-grounded in Darwinism. According to him, natural selection has produced a moral sense that is shared by all people. While our genes may be, in his words "selfish," there are times when cooperation with others is the selfish gene's best interest. Thus, according to him, natural selection has produced what we call altruism.

January 07 2008 By virtueonline Britain has changed but its values must endure

Bishop Nazir-Ali's concern that the rapidity and scale of immigration, together with the policy of multiculturalism, threaten Britain's Christian heritage are echoed by the Church of England General Synod, a majority of which worries that large-scale immigration is "diluting the Christian nature of Britain".

January 04 2008 By virtueonline Evangelical Leaders Pledge Common Cause with Islam

Others are just beginning to hear of it. In November, NEA President Leith Anderson and NEA Vice President Richard Cizik signed onto a Christian response to an invitation to dialogue from 138 Muslim leaders around the world.

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