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October 19 2015 By dvirtue Bad News, Indeed — Playboy Opened the Floodgates and Now the Culture is Drowning

Scott Flanders, Playboy CEO, told the media that his product had been overtaken by the larger culture. “You’re just one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And it’s just passé at this juncture.”

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October 18 2015 By dvirtue IT'S NOT REALLY LOVE: Western Culture's Misunderstanding of Romantic Attachment

Michael Bolton sang, "I said 'I love you', but I lied-- this is more than love I feel inside." The part of what he felt that was "more than love" was unlikely to be anything good. In too many cases, what people call "love" turns out to be some combination of the following things which are often mistaken for love: obsession, dependency, possessiveness, idealization, a desire for control, in-love-with-the-idea-of-love, pity, and of course, lust.

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October 16 2015 By dvirtue The New Anti-Semitism

Europeans took the country of the Palestinians? This is wrong in all sorts of ways. First, Jews have more historical claim to the land of Israel/Palestine than those called Palestinians. Jews have been on the land for more than 3000 years, while Arabs came there only in the seventh century AD.

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October 15 2015 By dvirtue California Approves Physician-Assisted Suicide

The new law requires two doctors to determine that a patient has less than six months to live. The patient must submit two oral requests for a lethal prescription, at least 15 days apart, as well as a written request, which would be signed in front of two witnesses who attest that the patient is of sound mind and not under duress.

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October 13 2015 By dvirtue United Methodist and Episcopalian Church Clergy Lead Prayer Rally to "Bless" Abortion Clinic

Think Progress reports that the group hopes their "blessing" will protect Preterm from "preachy protesters, as well as encourage the strength and bravery of those providing and relying on its services." Young plans to go out to other abortion facilities in the state if their event in Cleveland is successful.

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October 12 2015 By dvirtue BOSTON, MA: Medical Doctor given 15 minutes to Appeal Firing over Gay Health remarks

This "final appeal" before the Board of Directors was allowed by the bylaws if Dr. Church could demonstrate that the hospital panel that upheld his expulsion had "acted arbitrarily, capriciously or with prejudice or that the recommendation of the panel was not supported by the evidence." In fact, Dr. Church had simply told the truth about unhealthy behaviors. People connected with Dr.

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October 07 2015 By dvirtue Unfolding Spiritual Disaster at Christian Today

"We all know that the founding father to whom Christianity and Islam, as well as Judaism, trace their roots is, of course, Abraham. And that, as both Genesis and the Qur'an record, as part of his calling he was given a great promise and challenge by the one God of everyone:

'I [God] will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.' (Genesis 12: 2-3)

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October 06 2015 By dvirtue Islam Advances While the West Sleeps

The decline of the West has been documented time and time again. America, once the light on the hill, and the leader of the free world, is now but a shadow of its former shelf, with Obama doing all he can to relegate it to the trash heap of history.

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October 06 2015 By dvirtue Apostasy's Bitter Fruit

We learned about her six years ago when the openly lesbian Lutheran was to be ordained. Thankfully some church leaders did not go along with this, and made a very public display of their disagreement:

Anglican bishops from England and Northern Ireland have rebuffed invitations to attend the ordination of the openly gay Eva Brunne to be the next Bishop of Stockholm.

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October 02 2015 By dvirtue Two African Bishops Stress Seriousness of Sodomy

In an interview for Italy's La Repubblica, he calls such unions, which are being promoted and normalized worldwide, "retrogressive for culture and civilization." So far, Cdl. Sarah notes, the movement hasn't caught on in Africa.

"No non-Western culture is moving in the direction of approving homosexual unions," he observes. "No one in African culture looks on this with approval because this is a union that is not open to life."

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