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		<title>Doug Pagitt&#8217;s &#8220;different Gospel&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/doug-pagitts-different-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Team Pyro comes through.  Check out this as a follow up to the Doug Pagitt/John MacArthur debate on yoga.  What I said in an earlier post about emergent being today&#8217;s liberalism seems too mild once you read what Pagitt says here:  http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2007/09/different-gospels.html
The synopsis of his statement is that the type of Christianity represented [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=55&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics, Psychology and Theology of Gift Giving- The Gift Says More About the Giver</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Washington Post (Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006) article, Did the Three Kings Bear Gift Receipts?, Kevin Hassett examines gift giving from an economist&#8217;s point of view.
He discovers that an economist would say that gift giving is a completely inefficient way of celebrating Christmas.  They would claim that a person knows what they want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=31&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impropriety&#8217;s Shame- Wesley Is Turning Over in His Grave This Christmas Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post, Sunday, December 10, 1006  &#8220;And to All a Raucous, Rollicking Good Night&#8221; by Anita Huslin

The Washington Post reported on a ladies-only &#8220;Christmas Pageant&#8221; held by Smith Island United Methodist Church in Ewell, Maryland.  Apparently this has been an annual event at this church for upward of 40 years now.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=30&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apparent concern for modesty a subtle justification to go on the hunt?</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/07/apparent-concern-for-modesty-a-subtle-justification-to-go-on-the-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Australian Muslim Shiek Hilaly was quoted as saying:
&#8220;Rape is 90% the woman&#8217;s responsibility.  If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park or in the backyard, without a cover and the cat eats it, then whose fault will it be?  The cats or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=24&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Subdued&#8221; Pope- the Face of the West?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Point:
In a Las Angeles Times piece called &#8220;Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered,&#8221; Raymond Ibrahim states:
&#8220;perhaps Muslims cannot be blamed for expecting special treatment, as well as believing that jihad is righteous and decreed by the Almighty. The West constantly goes out of its way to confirm such convictions. By criticizing itself, apologizing and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=21&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It was a miracle of god&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, at 3:15 PM, I was watching CNN&#8217;s Headline News.  They were doing a segment in which they were interviewing an African woman who had lived a life as a prostitute for 20 years.  During that time she had been married to a husband who had AIDS.  Yet, even with these two strikes against her, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=14&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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