US Professor turn from Atheism to find more answers in Christianity

“Smart people don’t become Christians,” she thought, according to Biola University.

Her worldview, however, began to change at age 31. She recounts her journey from atheism to Christianity in the recently released Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith.

“It is no light matter to meet God after having denied Him all one’s life,” she writes in the book. “Coming to Him was only the beginning. I can point to a day and time and place of my conversion, and yet since then I have come to understand that He calls me to a fresh conversion every day.” > more.
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Burka ban: protection or violation the civil liberties ?

The French National Assembly last week approved by a vote of 355 to 1 a measure which would ban women from wearing the burka and the niqab in public places.

France is home to an estimated 5 million Muslims, or 6 percent of the population. An estimated 2,000 French Muslims wear the niqab. The less-restricted hijab, or headscarf, was banned from public schools in 2004. > more.

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Even atheists should welcome Benedict’s visit

Despite his uncuddly image, the pope has a message for believers and deniers alike.

You know the world’s natural order has settled down again when the Free Church of Scotland has voiced its disapproval of a papal visitation.

Several months have elapsed since it was announced that Benedict XVI would be embarking on a pilgrimage to Britain, yet in vain have I waited for them to denounce this man of perdition. There hasn’t even been a reference to the whore of Rome, nor hint of Beelzebub’s Footstool. In the name of the half-shut tabernacle door, what has been afflicting the Free Kirk, my favourite other Christian denomination? > more.
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Eyewitnesses recount Israel flotilla raid

(CNN) — Some of the first accounts emerged Tuesday from eyewitnesses who were aboard several boats stormed by Israeli forces as they approached Gaza the day before.

Hanin Zoabi, a member of the Israeli parliament, was on board the Miva Marmara, the ship that was the scene of a confrontation between activists and Israeli soldiers. That clash left at least nine people dead.

The Israeli Navy fired on the ships five minutes before commandos descended from ropes that dangled from helicopters, Zoabi said during a press conference in Nazareth, Israel. She said passengers on board the ship were unarmed.  > more.

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A System called Apartheid

Well Jo’anna she runs a country

She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don’t care about the rest at all
She’s got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo’anna see
How everybody could a live as one

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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ was coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, in 1839:

True, This! – Beneath the rule of men entirely great,

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Behold The arch-enchanters wand! – itself a nothing! –

But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Caesars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! –

Take away the sword – States can be saved without it! > more.

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Israel rejects multinational inquiry into flotilla attack

UN-proposed commission into flotilla raid is dismissed as global pressure grows for Israel to ease its blockade of Gaza.

Israel‘s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, today dismissed a UN proposal for an international commission to investigate last week’sassault on a flotilla of aid ships.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, proposed a commission of inquiry headed by the former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, who is an expert in maritime law. The commission would include representatives of Israel, the US and Turkey. All nine activists killed in the operation were Turkish; one held joint US citizenship. > more.
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Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range

Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal.

Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed they were peppered with 9mm bullets, many fired at close range.

Nine Turkish men on board the Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times and five were killed by gunshot wounds to the head, according to the vice-chairman of the Turkish council of forensic medicine, which carried out the autopsies for the Turkish ministry of justice today.> more.
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NASA: First Photos of Massive ‘Arm’ of Oil Slick (Hundreds of Miles Long)

That Can’t Be Good.

Photos taken by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite satellite on May 17th and released today show that the BP oil spill has a massive ‘arm’ that is spreading out in the Southeast direction.

Is it caught in the Gulf of Mexico’s Loop Current? > look at fotos here.

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