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Pope forgives John Lennon for saying Beatles were bigger than Jesus
(November 24, 2008)
More than 40 years after John Lennon upset Christians by claiming The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, the Pope has forgiven him. In 1966, Lennon said, “Christianity will go. We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.” Endnote: As far as we know, Lennon didn't walk on water, heal lepers, or rise from the dead three days after he died. And will people be worshipping him in 2000 years like they are with Jesus? If so, we will withdraw this webpage and write an apology.

Evos excited over new missing link — a swimming turtle!
(November 24, 2008)
Creation Safaris reports on the latest Scottish missing link that is exciting evolutionists. It is a turtle that swims. What's exciting about that, you ask? We'd like to know too. Although scientists claim it is a missing link, the turtle is said to be so similar to modern freshwater turtles that it looks “like the ones you can buy in the pet shop”, with only minor differences in the internal cranial structure. It doesn't take much to excite an evolutionist does it?

Breakaway Episcopalians form a new Anglican Church in North America
(November 23, 2008)
Around 100,000 former Episcopalians who have left the church because of differences over biblical authority and interpretation, and the church's consecration of an openly gay Episcopal bishop, are about to unite in a new, more conservative Anglican church in North America.

Is choosing Hillary a giant mistake?
(November 23, 2008)
Clive Crook says that choosing Hillary Clinton as secretary of state is a mistake for the Democrats. He says she is not a foreign policy expert, she is not a born diplomat, and her first priority would be to advance her own presidential ambitions, not to help make the Obama presidency such a success that those hopes die. Could Hillary defer to Obama, and carry out his instructions to the best of her ability? We don't think so.

Dad links son's suicide to Richard Dawkins book
(November 22, 2008)
A New York man is linking the suicide of his 22-year-old son, a military veteran who had bright prospects in college, to the anti-Christian book The God Delusion. The grief-stricken father, Keith Kilgore, told WorldNetDaily that his son had taken a biology class and was doing well in it, but his son's professor and some other students “didn't like him as a Republican, as a Christian, and as a conservative who believed in intelligent design.” The professor had either assigned Jesse Kilgore to read, or strongly challenged him to read, The God Delusion by fanatical atheist Richard Dawkins. After Jesse's death, one of his friends came to his father in tears and said Jesse was very upset by Dawkins' book at Jefferson Community College in Watertown, N.Y.

Failed toilet bomber's lawyer says he was 'least cunning person ever'
(November 22, 2008)
A Muslim convert who admitted trying to blow up a restaurant in the English town of Exeter has had his sentencing delayed till the new year to wait for psychiatric reports. Nicky Reilly, 22, suffered serious injuries when a homemade bomb packed with nails exploded as he tried to prime it in the toilet of the Giraffe restaurant. He could not open the toilet door in time before the device exploded in his hands. His lawyer told the Old Bailey criminal court in London, “He may well be the least cunning person ever to have come before this court for any offence of this magnitude, for terrorism.”

Maniac King Herod's elaborate crypt found?
(November 21, 2008)
King Herod, the bloodthirsty megalomaniac who flew into a rage after meeting the wise men on the way to deliver gifts and to worship the infant Jesus, may have been buried in a recently discovered crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East. Israeli archaeologists said such paintings and other signs of a regal two-story mausoleum bolstered their belief that the ancient Jewish monarch was buried there.

Hindus offer $250 a head to kill pastors
(November 20, 2008)
Hindu radicals are offering $250 to anyone who kills a Christian pastor, and money, food and alcohol to anyone who murders Christians and destroys their homes, WorldNetDaily reports.

Unhappy people watch more TV
(November 19, 2008)
Researchers say that unhappy people spend a lot of time watching television, while happier people spend more time reading or catching up with friends. The 30-year study involved checking the free-time habits of 30,000 people. It also found that the unhappy TV viewers had more free time than happy people, which means the unhappy TV crowd could boost their happiness level by using that free time to read a book or phone a friend.

Christmas has been canceled in Croatia
(November 19, 2008)
The Croatian government has told state-run firms and organisations they are not allowed to celebrate Christmas this year because of the world's financial problems. When people said they would move their celebrations to New Year instead, the government said New Year would be canceled too. Some people are now looking for a suitable birthday to celebrate, before the government cancels everyone's birthday.

Liberals clinically mad, psychiatrist says
(November 18, 2008)
An acclaimed psychiatrist says the ideology motivating liberals is a mental disorder. Psychiatrist Dr. Lyle Rossiter says, “Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded. … Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.” As if that weren't enough to send liberals into a rage like spoiled, angry children, he adds that the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority. Oooh! And they all voted for Obama.

Resistance group opposes Obama's nation
(November 17, 2008)
Conservative Americans who don't have any mental disorders but who do disagree with Barack Obama's liberal agenda are being urged to join a new Resistance group. Grassfire.org is trying to mobilize one million non-liberal citizens (see entry above) to join together by Inauguration Day on January 29, 2008.

Russian church disappears
(November 17, 2008)
Thieves have stolen an entire 200-year-old Russian Orthodox church, brick by brick. The disused church had stood near the village of Komarovo since 1809. Church officials last visited it in July, and were considering resuming services there. An Orthodox priest who tried to find where the church had gone said he found a local businessman who had been buying bricks for 1 ruble (4 cents) each, and the businessman had recently made a large purchase.

Darwin Day? Or Academic Freedom Day?
(November 16, 2008)
Next year is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on February 12, 1809. While people who believe they came from apes will be honoring Darwin all year, the Academic Freedom group is urging students to speak up for free speech by defending the right to debate evidence for and against evolution. After all, many people haven't evolved from apes, including us, so we should have the right to argue against claims that we have.

Dirty brown cloud sweeping out from Asia
(November 16, 2008)
A huge atmospheric brown cloud of pollution stretching from the Arabian peninsula to almost the east coast of the United States is being blamed for killing more than 300,000 people annually in China and India. CNN reports that scientists say the cloud is a toxic cocktail that is two miles deep and covers tens of millions of square miles. The cloud absorbs or reflects back the sun's rays, which is keeping ground temperatures lower but is causing crop losses while poisoning people.

How evangelicals voted in the presidential election
(November 14, 2008)
A Barna survey after the recent election found overwhelming support among evangelicals for Republican candidate John McCain — 88% voted for McCain, compared to just 11% for Obama. Surveys conducted by Barna throughout the campaign season showed that evangelicals were not enthusiastic about either candidate, but on Election Day evangelicals came through in a big way for the most conservative major candidate.

Joyful music could give you a healthy heart
(November 12, 2008)
Listening to music you greatly enjoy may be good for your heart, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have found. Music selected by study participants because it made them feel good, and brought them a sense of joy, caused tissue in the inner lining of blood vessels to increase blood flow. On the other hand, when study volunteers listened to music they perceived as stressful, their blood vessels narrowed.

German mother admits freezing dead babies
(November 12, 2008)
An alcoholic mother in Germany, accused in the deaths of two of her three dead babies, has admitted stuffing all three bodies in the family freezer but denied killing them. In a macabre case that has made national headlines, the defendant's teenage son discovered the girls' tiny corpses in plastic bags when looking for a frozen pizza. The woman's lawyer said the woman kept the bodies in the freezer because she wanted to have her babies near her.

White House open to men in drag?
(November 11, 2008)
A conservative activist is expressing alarm over president-elect Barack Obama's plan to expand a Clinton-era executive order that provides special protections for federal employees based on their sexual behavior. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, says Obama's new non-discrimination policy will be an “open door” for gender-confused and cross-dressing federal employees. It will also cause chaos in the restrooms.

Today's teens furthest away from God
(November 11, 2008)
Christian actor and author Stephen Baldwin says churches in America must work harder to get teens to follow a biblical worldview. In the presidential election, a strong part of Barack Obama's support came from young people, many of whom claimed to be evangelical Christians. Baldwin, who has become a dynamic force in the new hardcore Christian faith movement, says many youth seem unconcerned about issues that should be in the hearts of evangelicals. Baldwin's book, The Unusual Suspect, gives an inspiring insight into how God got through to a hardened, sin-loving Baldwin and powerfully transformed his life.

Bali bomber and smiling assassin Amrozi died a coward, newspaper says
(November 10, 2008)
Amrozi, the smiling Muslim assassin who was involved in killing 202 people in the Bali bombing of 2002, was not so brave when faced with his own death, Melbourne's Herald-Sun reports. His older brother Mukhlas was more defiant and praised God to the end. One source said that of the three Islamic terrorists who were executed on the weekend, Amrozi was the least brave and that as his end neared he looked pale and afraid.

One-third of U.K. teachers want creation taught with evolution
(November 10, 2008)
A poll in the United Kingdom has found that one in three teachers think creation and/or intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution in classrooms. The survey, by Teachers TV, a satellite television channel, found that 31 per cent of teachers agreed that creationism or intelligent design should be given the same status as evolution in the classroom. Ah yes, people want to know and have a right to know, but some lose their job or are threatened with legal action if they simply suggest they have an open mind on the subject.

Teacher belittles soldier's daughter for supporting McCain
(November 9, 2008)
A YouTube video showing a black teacher belittling a white 5th-grade student for saying she supported John McCain had hundreds of thousands of views within days of its release. A Scandinavian film crew was filming the lead-up to the election and caught the teacher, who admitted she was a strong Obama supporter, urging students to say whom they supported. When a girl reluctantly said McCain, the teacher replied, “Oh no! John McCain! Oh Jesus, John McCain!” and then commented about the “senseless” war in Iraq, knowing the nervous girl's father was in the military. See the clip below.

Obama confused over who had a seance
(November 8, 2008)
Barack Obama said that in his preparation to become President he had talked with all former Presidents who are alive, but he didn't want to get into “a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.” Associated Press pointed out that it wasn't Nancy Reagan who allegedly had the seance, but Obama's top Democratic challenger for the presidency, Hillary Clinton. Oh dear — so many basic errors of fact have been made by the top contenders for this presidency that they are starting to make George W. Bush look like Einstein.

Election wash-up
(November 7, 2008)
Some of the strange happenings that came from the U.S. election:

Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi decribed Barack Obama as “young, handsome, and even tanned.”
Social wonder Paris Hilton posed outside a polling station and said she supported the team of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin reportedly did not know that Africa was a continent.
Emails circulating with news of Obama's victory contained computer viruses.
Satirical newspaper The Onion headed its story on Obama's election win with the headline “Black man given nation's worst job.”

What an Obama presidency may mean for origin science
(November 6, 2008)
Creation Safaris reports that the scientific institutions are thrilled that their favorite candidate won. One reason for their support is that Joe Biden referred to intelligent design as malarkey, while both John McCain and Sarah Palin made statements, although weak, in favor of giving students opportunities to hear alternatives to evolution. For a short commentary on all this, select the heading to go to the Creation Safaris website.

Sodomite marriages banned in 3 states
(November 5, 2008)
While conservatives across America were disappointed by the Obama-Biden win, they were celebrating stunning victories when California, Arizona and Florida voted to ban gay marriages. Even in California, where same-sex marriage had been performed since June, the ban got more than 52 per cent of the vote.

Can Muslims and Catholics find common ground?
(November 5, 2008)
Catholics and Muslims have launched a Catholic-Muslim Forum to try to improve relations. The meeting comes two years after Pope Benedict angered Muslims when he implied Islam was violent and irrational. In response, Muslim scholars invited Christian churches to seek a better understanding of each other's beliefs. But those who know Catholics and Muslims will know that each will be out to influence the other rather than to listen to the other's point of view. Is there common ground between Allah and Jesus? We don't think so.

Frozen mice brought back to life. Mammoths next?
(November 4, 2008)
Using cells from dead mice frozen for 16 years, a team of Japanese geneticists has successfully created healthy clones of the dead animals, National Geographic reports. The breakthrough may pave the way for resurrecting extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth from frozen remains, experts say.

Teen pregnancy linked to viewing sex on TV
(November 4, 2008)
Teens who continually watch television programs with strong sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following three years as those who watch few such shows, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Jane Roe urges voters to choose life
(November 3, 2008)
Even though many of you will be reading this after the election result is known, we noted that Norma McCorvey has been urging Americans to vote for life on Tuesday. Americans will remember McCorvey as Jane Roe in the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion three-and-a-half decades ago. McCorvey supported abortion for many years before converting to Christianity, but now she holds a strong pro-life position, fighting against abortion. See a short testimony from Norma McCorvey in the clip below.

Olive oil suppresses appetite
(November 3, 2008)
A new study has found that a fatty acid in olive oil will help you ward off hunger. When oleic acid reaches your intestine, it converts into a lipid hormone that suppresses hunger.

Has Jesus appeared in the clouds over Australia?
(November 1, 2008)
An Australian man says he has filmed a cloud formation of Jesus over Sydney, Australia. But David Serd from the Creation Tips website said, “You have to lie on your side to see the shape, which then has one short left arm, one long right arm, indistinct legs, and it seems to be wearing an astronaut's helmet.” See for yourself in this YouTube clip.

Archaeologists find King David shard
(November 1, 2008)
Israeli scholars say the discovery of five lines of ancient Hebrew text is the nation's most exciting archaeological find since the Dead Sea Scrolls, which it predates by a millennium. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Yosef Garfinkel, leading the excavation where the shard was discovered, said the site is the only one in Israel where archaeologists can put the life of King David in its proper historical context.

Victory for prayers in Jesus' name
(October 31, 2008)
A ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared that it's OK to pray in Jesus' name at county board meetings when other constitutional provisions are followed. “Finally an appeals court with some common sense has ruled what I've been saying all along,” said Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was discharged from the U.S. Navy in a dispute with his commander over praying in uniform “in Jesus' name.” So all those who have been praying in Jesus' name for a commonsense ruling in this case have had their prayers answered.

Dangling effigy of Obama called “disgusting” while Palin's is called “art”
(October 31, 2008)
Is it disgusting or fun to hang an effigy of a presidential candidate with a rope around its neck? Well, the Sarah Palin effigy hanging in West Hollywood was called art and Halloween-related fun. But the Obama effigy hanging from a tree at the University of Kentucky was labelled “disgusting” and “offensive”. Does this mean that if Obama is in the White House we will be subjected to more disgusting incidents and if Palin gets there we will have a lot more art and fun? Probably.

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