The day before the end of the world: inner circle skeptical ... families divided
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Prophet’s non-profit staff expects to work Monday“I don’t believe in any of this stuff that’s going on, and I plan on being here next week,” a receptionist at their Oakland headquarters told CNNMoney.Make My Bed?
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Entrepreneurs offer post-'rapture' services
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“Ventures include offering rapture believers pet care and a chance to send letters to nonbelieving loved ones in the event the faithful are swept away.” LA Times
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Jury selection to begin in Ernest Willis / Christina Anderson case; church member on trial for raping babysitter
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Jury selection to begin in 1997 case; church member on trial for raping babysitter Prosecutor Wayne Coull said he expects Anderson to be among the first witnesses called when the trial begins May 23 in Merrimack Superior Court. The trial is expected to last four days.Former Trinity Baptist Church Pastor Charles Phelps is on the prosecution’s list of witnesses.
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Stephen Hawking: "Heaven ..... a fairy story for people afraid of the dark"
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Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story’“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,”
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Religious belief is human nature, huge new study claims
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Religion comes naturally, even instinctively, to human beings, a massive new study of cultures all around the world suggests.“The secularization thesis of the 1960s - I think that was hopeless”
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Report: 75 Percent of TNIV Gender-Related Problems in Updated NIV Bible
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“The [Counsel ] on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood this week published a full critical evaluation of the new NIV Bible…” StoryRead the Counsel report
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