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This is a good reason to vote early: Could voting for president be hazardous to your health? An analysis of Election Day traffic deaths dating back to Jimmy Carter's 1976 win suggests yes, but the authors say that's no reason not to go to the polls. The study found that on average, 24 more people …
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With all the recent complaining I've had to deal with from James Alexander, now this, from a Masonic site: For instance in some states conservative Christian evangelicals have overtaken some Grand Lodges and written into their state Masonic code a Christianization of their state's Freemasonry. Freemasonry had previously gradually evolved into being religiously neutral and …
This week's installment of Mass Confusion is Praise and Thanks to Yahweh, from the Texas group the Kairosingers. It's not quite a responsorial psalm, but it's good. Since the Vatican has outlawed the use of the word "Yahweh" for the divine name, you might want to restrict this to Masses in very small settings, where …
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In my recent post replying to the fundamentalist-obsessed James Alexander, I said that "Since 9/11 they (European secularists) have become quite vocal, because they realise they face being overrun by same Muslims whom they don’t have the stomach to fight. So they attack the Christians once again, because they know the Christians won’t resort to …
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