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My Take: This evangelical says Mormonism isn’ta cult – CNN (blog)

October 9th, 2011 2 comments
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Jehovah's Witnesses, for instance, haven't established a university. They don't sponsor a law school or offer graduate-level courses in world religions. The same goes for Christian Science. If you want to call those groups cults I will not argue with ...
  • Perry supporter says Romney’s religion ‘a cult’ – CNN

    October 9th, 2011 No comments
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    In fact, a website maintained by the Southern Baptist Convention lists the Mormon faith under its "New Religions and Cults" section, which also includes Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Scientology. Contacted by CNN, the Romney campaign had no ...
  • Conservative pastor on Romney: Don’t vote for a Mormon – CNN (blog)

    October 8th, 2011 No comments
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    In fact, a website maintained by the Southern Baptist Convention lists the Mormon faith under its "New Religions and Cults" section, which also includes Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Scientology. "That's why I'm enthusiastic about Perry," ...
  • School tells girl wearing rosary violates dress code – CNN (blog)

    October 5th, 2011 2 comments
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    Charles Russell, 1st President of the Watchtower Society told his fellow Jehovah's Witnesses that Jesus would be back in 1874. Rudolf Steiner maintained that from 1930 onwards, Jesus would grant certain people psychic powers to enable them to witness ...
  • Kazakhstan approves restrictive religion law – The Associated Press

    September 29th, 2011 No comments
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  • Eritrea: Free Political Prisoners 10 Years On – Reuters AlertNet

    September 23rd, 2011 2 comments
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    Thousands more Eritreans are incarcerated because they are members of religious groups that the Eritrean government refuses to recognize as legitimate: Jehovah's Witnesses, evangelical Christian churches, and reformist wings of the Eritrean Orthodox ...
  • Study: For ardent believers, economic issues are a matter of faith – CNN (blog)

    September 21st, 2011 No comments
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    Charles Russell, 1st President of the Watchtower Society told his fellow Jehovah's Witnesses that Jesus would be back in 1874. Rudolf Steiner maintained that from 1930 onwards, Jesus would grant certain people psychic powers to enable them to witness ...
  • Jehovah’s Witness denies sex charges – East Anglian Daily Times

    September 13th, 2011 1 comment
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    A Suffolk Jehovah's Witness accused of sexually assaulting three girls tried to rape one of them while his wife was in hospital having their second child, it has been alleged. To send a link to this page to a ...
  • Jesus, bombs and ice cream – CNN (blog)

    September 11th, 2011 No comments
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    The Amish, Mennonites, Quakers, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other Christian pacifist groups did not serve in the war(s) either. Those are all privileged elitists who take privilege (for themselves) and rely upon others to go in ...
  • Andrew Martin: It’s so much easier than being a father – The Independent

    September 5th, 2011 No comments
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    If the Jehovah's Witnesses came to our street, I would try, out of simple humanitarianism, to answer the door before my father did. "Look," I'd say to those smartly turned-out individuals optimistically proffering copies of The Watchtower, ...