Christian News Roundup, 3/16/09

This week’s Christian News Headlines, scoured from the papers to bring important news to your RSS reader!

Two different demonstrations of the “Religion of Pieces”, rejection of an atheist court case, perversion in the Game of Life, “debaptism”, and Bible taxation top this week’s news chart.

As usual, the first four are included in the excerpt; click through for the rest.

Christian Ammunition: Darwinism = Racism!

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/darwinists-tie-themselves-into-knots-denying-the-obvious/

Darwin was a firmly committed racist, and he was not shy about expressing his racist views:

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated.”

British Islamofascists Show True Colors: Beat Up Christian Televangelist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162039/Minister-beaten-clashing-Muslims-TV-show.html

A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with Muslims on his TV Gospel show has been brutally attacked by three Muslim men who ripped off his cross, beat him about the face, stole his laptop computer and his Bible, and warned: ‘If you go back to the studio, we’ll break your legs.’

The Metropolitan Police are treating it as a ‘faith hate’ assault and are hunting three Asian men.

Game of Life: Life in Sodom, that is!

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91291

The online version of a popular board game from many Americans’ childhood includes an option for players to choose homosexual marriage and child-rearing as a way of life.

Through the www.Shockwave.com website, even children can download and play a free trial version of The Game of Life, the first game ever created by Mr. Milton Bradley in 1860.

The player’s first option in the online version is to choose a persona based on pictures that clearly depict men and women. Shortly thereafter, the game invites players to choose a spouse, regardless of the potential spouse’s sex.

More Islamofascist Hatred! Christian man burned alive over rumors of romance

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91481

An Egyptian Muslim is charged with setting fire to a 25-year-old Christian, murdering the victim’s father and wounding his younger brother over a rumor about a romance between the young Christian and the Muslim man’s sister.

The events took place in the village of Dmas Meet-Ghamr after a rumor spread of a relationship between the 25-year-old Copt, Shehata Sabri, and the sister of a Muslim man named Yasser Ahmed Qasim.

Qasim allegedly poured gasoline over Sabri and set him on fire as bystanders looked on in horror. The young Copt threw himself into the adjacent canal to try to put out the flames. The fire left burns all over his body, leading to his death.

When Sabri Shehata, the father of the victim, arrived, he, too, was attacked by a group of Muslims who stabbed him with knives and daggers; one stab penetrated his back and came out of his abdomen below the rib cage, resulting in his death.

Christian Joy! Judge rejects Newdow’s attempted “So Help Me God” ban

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91642

A federal judge in Washington, D.C, dismissed a case yesterday brought by Michael Newdow and the American Humanist Association seeking to ban prayer and the phrase “so help me God” from presidential inaugurations.

Anti-Christian Depravity! Atheists seek “debaptism”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7941817.stm

The National Secular Society would like the Church of England to devise a formal procedure for cancelling baptisms, with a change in the baptismal roll as part of it.

In the face of resistance from the Church, the society has come up with a document of its own.

The “Certificate of Debaptism” has a deliberately home-made look, with its mock-official decoration and quasi-official language.

“I, John Geoffrey Hunt, having been subjected to the rite of Christian baptism in infancy… hereby publicly revoke any implications of that rite. I reject all its creeds and other such superstitions in particular the perfidious belief that any baby needs to be cleansed of original sin.”

The society’s president, Terry Sanderson, says the certificate is not designed to be taken too seriously, and he suggests displaying it in the loo.

Taxation without Christian Representation! Florida Demoncrats try to tax Bibles

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asec-exemptions-031609,0,5579894.story

Bill Bunkley, with the Florida Baptist Convention, said a recession when “families are hurting” is no time to tax Bibles, hymnals and other religious items, which would raise $20.5 million.

“It is during these times that … the Bible, hymnals and other books of faith are essential resources to Floridians,” he argued.

Responded Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando: “What do you think Jesus meant when he said, ‘Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s'?” On it went.

Related articles:

1. Christian News Roundup, 3/4/09
2. Christian News Digest, 2/14/09
3. Christian News Digest, Tuesday 2/10/09
4. Christian News Digest, 2/11/09
5. Christian News Digest, Monday 2/9/09

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