The Real Problem with Today's Discourse
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“ ‘Motive Attribution Asymmetry’—the assumption that one’s own views are based in love, while one’s opponent’s views is based in hate.” - Intellectual Takeout
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Russia Confiscates $30.4 Million Property from Jehovah’s Witnesses
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“[T]he Russian federation has seized the Jehovah’s Witness administrative center campus worth $30.4 million US dollars. The property has been transferred to the Federal State-funded institution Almazov National Medical Research of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.” - WRN
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Girl Scouts Gives Highest Award To Girl Who Organized A Pro-Abortion Campaign
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“As Girl Scout cookies season comes to a close, parents should be aware that the organization does not exactly have family-friendly values at its heart.” - Daily Wire
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Truce ends Jack Phillips' religious liberty battle
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“In yesterday’s truce, the CCRC dropped its latest discrimination charge against Phillips, and Phillips in turn dropped a 2018 religious bias lawsuit against the commission” - BPNews
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Why Did Evangelicals Flock to Trump? Existential Fear
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“Counterintuitively, the fact that Trump is bellicose, bombastic, insulting, and lives according to a code at odds with evangelicals’ beliefs actually made him more attractive as an ally, not less. ‘Evangelical nice’ is a real thing …That made evangelicals unlikely to see one of their own as capable of defeating an existential threat.” - The Bulwark
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Two-Faith Nation
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“In the early 1990s, you could almost fit the entire religious-liberties bar in a single mid-sized hotel conference room. Now conservative religious-liberties lawyers are the virtual Seal Team Six of the culture war, with multiple organizations raising collectively close to $200 million annually to do battle in courtrooms from coast to coast. What changed?” - David French
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Utah Bill Banning Abortions of Babies with Down Syndrome Heads to Governor's Office for Approval
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“A final vote has approved legislation to ban aborting babies with Down syndrome in Utah. With the legislature’s approval, the bill has been cleared to be sent to pro-life Gov. Gary Herbert to be signed into law.” - Christian Headlines
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Was a pastor engaging in free speech or criminal trespass at the Mall of America?
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“Parsa was not preaching or evangelizing, Bushnell says, but had come to enjoy the mall. Other mall visitors engaged him in friendly conversation about his origins and religion” - World
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What Should Christians Think About Abortion? (Part 3)
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In the first two installments, we discussed some presuppositions that the pro-abortion and pro-life perspectives bring to this issue, and we saw what the activists in our secular culture are saying about abortion. We especially noted their attempts to normalize abortion to their target audience. Now, in this last installment, we consider what the Bible says about unborn children.
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