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The Atheist's Dilemma

I don't know when I first became a skeptic. It must have been around age 4, when my mother found me arguing with another child at a birthday party: "But how do you know what the Bible says is true?" By age 11, my atheism was so widely known in my middle school that a Christian boy threatened to come to my house and "shoot all the atheists." My Christian friends in high school avoided talking to me about religion because they anticipated that I would tear down their poorly constructed arguments.

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Medjugorje message mesmerizes parishioners

Medjugorje message mesmerizes parishioners March 26th, 2013By Lidia Wasowicz It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and the crowd sits riveted to the big screen at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae. It is not live coverage of the 2013 NFL championship game in New Orleans that has the viewers transfixed but a documentary completed last August on Medjugorje, a town of about 4,300 inhabitants in the former Yugoslavia where the Virgin Mary reportedly has appeared regularly to six townsfolk f

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New experiments on Shroud show it’s not medieval

New experiments on Shroud show it’s not medieval http://vaticaninside.../sindone-23579/ New scientific experiments carried out at the University of Padua have apparently confirmed that the Shroud Turin can be dated back to the 1st century AD. This makes its compatible with the tradition which claims that the cloth with the image of the crucified man imprinted on it is the very one Jesus’ body was wrapped in when he was taken off the cross. The news will be published in a book by Giulio Fanti,

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Mumbai Doctor Vulgar defamation Canadian study criticizes Mother Teresa

Canadian study criticizes Mother Teresa. Mumbai Doctor: Vulgar defamation by Nirmala Carvalho http://www.asianews....tion-27291.html A group of researchers accuse the founder of the Missionaries of Charity of mismanaging large amounts of money and of having "loved" the suffering of the sick, but not curing them. They also accuse the Vatican of exploiting her beatification to bring faithful to the Church. Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, "Her hostels are places of love, in its purest

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The problems and mysteries of life

The problems and mysteries of life There are many ways to approach the problems and mysteries of life. One of them is to become cynical and contemptuous of those who still seek some meaning in their lives. To become a skeptic is also another way of trying to figure out what is true and false when it comes to human experiences. There is the way of faith, which is not unreasonable but this path leaves the seeker open to the scorn of those who choose another way. Those who call themselves huma

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Part two of Saia story: his courtroom miracle (archives)

www.spiritdaily.com Part two of Saia story: his courtroom miracle (archives) Printed with permission When we left off, we were retelling the account of Louis P. Saia III, a 45-year-old Houma, Louisiana, businessman who was at wits end and in total personal and legal turmoil (broke and suing a major corporation to keep it from taking over his crucial patent) when, in his most desperate moment, he had an apparition of the Virgin Mary [ see story]. The astonishing legal as

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BUSINESSMAN IN FIGHT OF HIS LIFE DETAILS HIS LIFE-SAVING VISION OF THE VIRGIN MARY

BUSINESSMAN IN FIGHT OF HIS LIFE DETAILS HIS LIFE-SAVING VISION OF THE VIRGIN MARY www.spiritdaily.co He was on the ropes. He was millions in debt. A huge corporation was trying to take his patent, ruin his company, and break him legally. His marriage was full of tension. He wore a pattern on his kitchen floor, pacing. So desperate was Louis P. Saia III that he thought of stalking the executives trying to break him. There was nothing left for him and his wife (even his lawyers were droppin

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