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January 13th, 2012
04:31 AM ET
Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Friday, January 13
By Dan Merica, CNN Here's the Belief Blog's morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: Anti-Semitic attacks in New Jersey leave questions, raise worries  The decision by the Supreme Court was unanimous. CNN: My Take: Huge win for religious liberty at the Supreme Court Get more involved with Belief: Subscribe to our Religion News Twitter feed and message @danmericaCNN your opinion of the Speed Read. Tweet of the Day: From @TabletMag: "Bibi? It's Barack." tabletm.ag/ztDgHD Enlightening Reads: The Christian Post: Charles Barkley Calls Tim Tebow Phenomenon ‘National Nightmare’ Catholic News Service: Letter objects to treating same-sex unions ‘as if they were marriage’  A video purporting to show U.S. Marines urinating on dead bodies has sparked a huge conversation on CNN.com. Huffington Post: Marines Urinating Video: Pamela Geller, Anti-Muslim Blogger, Says 'I DO Love These Marines' National Catholic Reporter: In Salt Lake City, Catholics focus on immigration Excerpt of the Day: Talking with other mothers, we shared a hope our sons would remain chaste until marriage. I found it comforting to find other mothers who shared that ideal, and who felt it was possible here, that it was a hope that was supported here. Linda Maher, the director of communication at a Catholic school in Washington, D.C., said this about the school she both works at and sent two of her kids, too. According to the New York Times report, Rick Santorum has sent two of his kids to the Heights. Today’s Opinion:  According to Albert Cutié, maybe having married clergy will help us all move on from a culture of sexual taboos. My Take: It’s time to talk about sex at church – and marriage for clergy Join the conversation… Survey: American Mormons feel discrimination, hope |
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Prayer changes things
Prayer opens the portals of heaven
To let in repentant sinners
Prayer provides relief for the weary of soul
Prayer provides relief for the weak and heavy laden
Prayer provides regeneration
And new spiritual growth
Prayer changes things
Nope, hatred and intolerance are still the foundation of your religion, just read the posts moron.
Yesterday, the government of the eastern Pakistani province of Punjab has demolished a Catholic nursing home, girls’ school, convent, and chapel, leading to the destruction of Bibles, vestments, and other religious objects without warning. Where is the media?!
Good morning, I enjoy watching CNN, even though I am a Canadian, I have followed the past presidential elections with curiosity,
since it seems that the election lasts for ever and ever. In canada, our elections last about 2 months, and generally are boring and without much fanfare, so watching the US elections is kind of like watching a TV series, it takes twists and turns almost hourly, so its entertaining for sure. One thing that bothers me about the US at this time, is, they are screaming about no jobs, but when the opportunity arises to address this issue, people come out of the wood work with all this nonsense about dirty oil/fracking wells etc. Look Mr and Mrs America, if your country wants to continue dealing with gangsters, cut
throats, and dictators, then continue dealing with these people, we will gladly sell our oil to other countries who really really want it? We Canadians are getting tired of listening to the B S that both your politicians and citzens are spouting off about, do some home work on this subject, before you start making stupid comments about our oil and technology, we canadians are not a stupid nation, we take extreme care to make sure that our products and services are delivered in a safe and proper order.
Signed, Paul G. A Proud Canadian.
The fact that this is considered newsworthy by CNN disgust me to my core.
Dammit, if I want to worship a tree and use the script from the "Life of Brian" as my Bible, it's my business. I sure don't need some negative rambling "atheist" to correct my misguided ways!
'misguided atheist'...more like misguided theist
The Life of Brian is sacred content and a great way to start the day, so here goes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqq3e03EBQ
But of course it has been the THEISTS trying to correct everyone else's ways for thousands of years now. What you are seeing is called "blowback." And the way we see it, you are owed at least 2,000 years worth for all the oppression, bullying, torture, executions, and other atrocities your religion has been dishing out on us.
Religion has been shoved down peoples' throats for millenia now, and it needs to stop . . . especially since there is utterly no evidence it is even remotely true.
Prayer changes things
No, it doesn't. Tell me, is your 'god' omniscient? Yes or no
@Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things:
Do you not think it is time to stop spewing this crap especially when there is so much evidence to the contrary?
Try it this way and you might not look so delusional:
Theism is not healthy for children and other living things...prayer HAS NEVER been proven to change anything.
But Atheism is GRAND for adults and other dead things...... Prayer does NOTHING, nothing at all. Jesus said that ANYTHING asked in his name would be granted and if it were not so he would not have said it; and yet, NOTHING prayed for in Jesus' name has EVER been done.
My atheism is very healthy for me. If I wasn't an atheist, I'd be in prison or in an insane asylum.
And I haven't had a cold or flu in years.
Prayers do nothing but make you feel you've done something real instead of imaginary.
That might help some people at certain times, but it is delusional at its base and that delusional aspect will come back to bite you on the ass later when you try to deal with the real world.
The best places for atheists would be
1- The grave before they have had a chance to harm someone
2-Prison as mentioned preferably in solitary confinement to avoid corrupting honest criminals
3-An insane asylum preferably for the criminally insane and again in solitary confinement