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...campus, Harvard students’ knee-jerk liberalism and militant atheism, or, at least, militant hostility to religion, is more than apparent. An integral part of any misguided teenage rebellion includes perfunctorily discarding the formalities and traditions long observed in one’s family: Sunday mornings spent in church, obligatory dietary restrictions, and even a baseline belief in God. Thanks to cartoonish caricatures of Evangelicals in the media, religion immediately connotes images, in the minds of the self-styled intellectuals at Harvard, of provincialism, stupidity, and Republican Party politics—things to avoid...
...between the Amity Foundation, a Chinese Christian charity, and the United Bible Societies, a Reading, England-based group dedicated to providing access to Christian scripture, is acting entirely within the law. Its chief customer is the China Christian Council, the supervisory body for the country's state-controlled Protestant churches. "You can build on trust or it can be broken, depending on how you act," says Peter Dean, a New Zealander and the resident consultant for the United Bible Society at Amity's Nanjing plant. "In the case of Bibles, the government took a step in 1979 and extended trust...
...Zuma responded by saying it was "the business of the leaders of the Church... [to] pray for people, not condemn them...
...meetings of his own on behalf of the campaign. That's not to mention the national address Romney gave last week on his faith to try and put to rest worries about Mormonism. Gettemy, who was once leery of Romney because of Mormonism - some Evangelicals consider the Church of Latter Day Saints to be a cult - said he liked the speech and ultimately decided, "I'm not voting for a pastor, I'm voting for a President and I believe [Romney] when he says he wouldn't try and convert people from the White House...
JEANNE ASSAM, a volunteer security guard at Colorado Springs' New Life Church, describing her emotions as she wounded the shooter who killed two sisters in the church's parking lot and then himself...