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Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, will use a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson during his ceremonial swearing-in today.
According to CNN.com, Ellison spokesman Rick Jauert said the new congressman “wants this to be a special day, and using Thomas Jefferson’s Quran makes it even more special.”
“Jefferson’s Quran dates religious tolerance to [...]

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Perhaps this is just an example of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, but ever since I wrote an article about Christianity and government, I have been seeing the topic everywhere. For example, there was just recently an article in the Harding Bison entitled, “Whatever Happened to Christian Pacifism?” It’s a slightly different topic than I dealt with in [...]

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David Plotz over at Slate recently began Blogging the Bible. It poses the question, “What happens when an ignoramus reads the Good Book?” He says in his introduction:
My goal is pretty simple. I want to find out what happens when an ignorant person actually reads the book on which his religion is based. I think [...]

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There’s an interesting post over at Asphaleia on the names of God in the Bible. It’s worth a read. Here is an interesting little tidbit from the post:
The Hebrew system of numerals was a simple one in which the first letter aleph indicated one, the second letter beth was two, and so on until the [...]

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