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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Christian plates shelved in South Carolina

December 11, 2008

American’s United has won a small victory in the war against theocracy.
A federal judge today ruled that the state of South Carolina may not issue a special “Christian” license plate featuring a cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe.”
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sponsored the litigation to stop issuance [...]

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Was it Mrs. Bush or God, Mr. President?

December 11, 2008

George Bush recently gave an interview where he talked about his religious views. Unsurprisingly, he’s like many American Christians, he’s never actually thought about them much, if, at all.

What I found interesting was his response to questioning about his alcoholism.
The common belief about that is he found Jesus via Billy Graham and quit drinking because [...]

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Good parents give children faith systems?

December 11, 2008

So, there I was stumbling along  on an unrelated subject when this parenting article popped up on the screen about the steps we parents can take in order to, at the very least, lower the odds of our children growing up to be stars on Cops by pointing out the so-called mistakes we are [...]

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Here yesterday, gone today

December 11, 2008

Houston got a surprise yesterday. It snowed.  I thought I was imagining it at first. Then I expected it to disappear as quickly as it came down, but it didn’t.  By 9PM everything in our area had a fine layer of snow on it.
Our daughter had a blast running around making snowballs:

With instructions:

And help of [...]

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