http://www.newscloud.com/section/religion Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:15:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us http://www.newscloud.com/read/Obama_worker_Bush_pastor_linked_to_Dobsonbashing A campaign worker for Barack Obama and the Texas Methodist pastor who advises President Bush have been linked to a website that bashes prominent Christian leader and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Agency_Head_in_Polygamy_Raid_Retiring The head of the Texas agency behind the seizure of more than 400 children from a polygamist group announced Friday that he is retiring.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Are_evangelicals_abandoning_their_political_agenda ...In other words, the non-abortion and non-gay-rights issues have now become the elephant in the room for evangelicals. So what to do?

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Inteligentaindigena_Indigenismo_McCain_Backer_Hagee_Said_Hitler_Was_Fulfilling_God_s_Will_AUDIO John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a "hunter," sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Einstein_Letter_Belief_In_God Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Jesus_Made_Me_Puke_Rolling_Stone Matt Taibbi Undercover with the Christian Right

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Soldier_Sues_Army_Saying_His_Atheism_Led_to_Threats Religious right is still a force in the military.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Georgia_Republican_instructs_House_on_proper_Pledge_of_Allegiance_technique The pledge had no reference to a diety until 1954, when Cold War fever saw its inclusion to separate Americans from "godless Communists." The Supreme Court dismissed a case arguing that the phrase violated the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of religion because the plaintiff had no standing to argue the case, not because of any inherent legal justification for the phrase.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Baby_with_2_faces_born_in_north_India A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday. I find it amusing that MSNBC put this in their Kids & Parenting section.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Film_legend_Charlton_Heston_dead_at_84 Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Godtalk_in_the_presidential_election_or_why_evangelicals_are_voting_for_Barack Evangelicals are not fundamentalists; many would resist the idea that they want to impose their worldviews on others. Many are now struggling to figure out how to live in a religiously and culturally plural culture, and Obama’s message not only resonates with their sense of integrity, but it also appeals to their desire to find ways to live together less divisively. I don’t think Barack has a prayer with the fundamentalists. But I think he’s definitely striking a chord among evangelicals.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_Associated_Press_Obama_Photo_in_Turban_Robe_Causes_Stir http://www.newscloud.com/read/Evolution_battle_flares_in_states http://www.newscloud.com/read/Where_religion_ideology_and_the_Web_cross_Los_Angeles_Times http://www.newscloud.com/read/Russian_state_TV_suggests_USA_involved_in_drugtrafficking_from_Afghanistan__RAWA_News