From the AP: 
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase [...]

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From this week’s batch of Postsecrets.

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Huckabee: Stimulus is ‘anti-religious’
Politico
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.”
In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.”
The former Republican presidential [...]

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Religion and the Super Bowl: Troy Polamalu and the Orthodox
Dallas Morning News

Of course there are religion angles about he Super Bowl, silly. Ann Rodgers, is the wonderful religion reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Having worked for a paper that had a team in the Big Game, I can imagine the frenzy finding every tiny tale [...]

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Yesterday on a morning show I heard him say that his therapist told him he is “heterosexual with issues” – and he even admitted that he has been struggling with this “issue” for a long time.  Of course, he also went on to say he loves the lord and wants to “grow in Jesus.”  I [...]

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Just 45% of Regular Churchgoers Have Close Friends Who Avoid Church
Rasmussen Reports
Martin Luther King, Jr. once commented that the Sunday morning church hour was the most segregated hour in America. Forty years later, as the nation prepares to inaugurate its first African-American president, there are still plenty of predominantly white and black churches, but the [...]

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From Richard Cohen:  “The conventional thing to say is that Obama has a preacher problem — first the volcanic Jeremiah Wright and now the transparently anti-gay Warren. But the real problem has nothing to do with ministers and everything to do with Obama’s inability or unwillingness to be a moral leader. Sooner or later, he [...]

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80% of adult Americans believe in God
75% believe in miracles
73% believe in heaven
71% believe in angels
71% believe in that Jesus is God or the Son of God
70% believe in the resurrection of Jesus
68% believe in the survival of the soul after death
62% believe in hell
61% believe in the Virgin birth
59% believe in he devil
47% Darwin’s [...]

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In the “gosh, that’s a huge surprise” department – religion played a major role in the new bit of the California Constitution that takes away rights – but only to a certain apparently undeserving minority in sunny California.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Voters’ economic status and religious convictions played a greater role than race and age in [...]

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In my opinion, the objectors have a 1st Amendment right to state their opinion regarding this ad campaign; however, the objectors right doesn’t trump the American Humanist Association’s right to state their beliefs, in my opinion.
Kytja Weir, Examiner Staff Writer
Hundreds of people have fired off complaints to Metro for running an ad campaign on [...]

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30 years ago yesterday marks the anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I have run into people with personality disorders that in some part remind me of self-absorbed jerks with delusions of grandeur like Jones. Fortunately most of them are not nearly as charismatic and don’t know how [...]

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Did y’all hear?  Ted Haggard is back.  I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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Haggard Claims He Suffered Child Abuse
CBNNews.com

November 13, 2008

CBNNews.com – Former pastor Ted Haggard recently opened up about the scandal that caused his downfall as the leader of a Colorado megachurch and that also led to his resignation as the president [...]

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Associated Press, Thurs., Nov. 13, 2008

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed [...]

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Melissa Etheridge to Stop Paying $500k/Year in CA Taxes After Passage of Prop 8
The Daily Beast: You Can Forget My Taxes, by Melissa Etheridge:
Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady [...]

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Evangelist Billy Graham at 90: The man frail, the legacy strong
His page at Wikipedia
His web page

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