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What About the Ground Zero Church? Archdiocese Says Officials Abandoned Project
Someone told me that Rush Limbaugh also mentioned it today. Maybe building the Church will get traction now. Source: Fox News HT: Michael Bauman The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America accused New York officials on Tuesday of turning their backs on the reconstruction of the only church destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, while the…
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Unpublished paragraphs for the Orthodox audience
STOP THE PRESSES! HELLENIC VOICE PUBLISHED ARTICLE AFTER ALL! SEE: THE HELLENIC VOICE! Below are the paragraphs that I included in my article (Ground Zero is American Holy Ground. No Mosque Near Ground Zero) that was intended for an Orthodox audience. The Hellenic Voice, which has published everything else I submitted, apparently decided not to…
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A Mosque in New York for a Christian Church in Mecca
Source: Pajamas Media The principal mosque in Rome has a surface area of 30,000 square meters and can hold thousands of believers. The Christian church of Mecca has a surface area of zero square meters and can hold zero believers. In fact, there is no Christian church in Mecca. In other words, Rome is an…
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In search of God particle, atoms smashed at record speed
Most of this is above my pay grade but it sure is fascinating. I like watching things like this with one eye cast on Darwin, by which I mean the (preposterous) notion that order rises out of matter rather than order preexisting the rise of matter (the latter functions as the philosophical presupposition in the…
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Krauthammer: Sacrilege at Ground Zero
Source: National Review Online A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz). When we speak…
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