Quotes the Bible to explain taxing the rich.

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Obama on Taxes: What Would Jesus Do?

Senior cleric John Sentamu says the government should not overrule the Bible when it comes to defining marriage.

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Sentamu attacks same-sex marriage

The Bible in the language of the Jamaican street

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The ‘Jesus book’ that divides Jamaicans

The Bible has been translated into many languages – but now there is a version in Jamaican Patois.

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VIDEO: The Bible in Jamaican patois

Two professors have produced a scholarly experiment: an edition of the Christian holy book edited entirely by Jews.

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Beliefs: A Jewish Edition of the New Testament — Beliefs

Joshua Blackwell finally visited his mother in North Carolina this summer and they talked about his conversion to Islam. The conversation didn’t go well. Margaret Blackwell had returned at midnight from her factory job making surgical bandages. Joshua, a D.C. public school teacher, was still up. She pulled out her Bible. He opened his Koran. They tried to reach each other but ended up doing battle. It was 1 John and Surah 31, verses and ayats. It was only those washed in the blood of the risen Christ , and the Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings be upon him , until after 2 a.m. Read full article > >

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Son’s Muslim faith divides one black family

The R&A, golf’s ruling body in much of the world, and the United States Golf Association amended nine principal regulations of the Rules of Golf, the bible of the game.

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Golf Adjusts Some Penalties, and It Only Took Centuries

Under dim lights in a grand hall of the great Folger Shakespeare Library lies the “Wicked Bible,” called so because it omits one distinctly important word from the Seventh Commandment. It is a word with the power to prevent sin. “Thou shalt commit adultery,” the Wicked Bible commands. For this unfortunate typo, the printer of this 1631 edition of the King James Bible met with retribution. By order of the king, copies of the “Wicked Bible” were quickly gathered and burned. Its printer, Robert Barker, was chastised for stupidity. Read full article > >

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Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates 400th anniversary of King James Bible

Folger Consort Verily, I say unto you: 400 years ago, the King James Bible was published, the translation of the Bible still most familiar to English-speaking Christians. The Folger Consort marked the anniversary Friday night with a concert in conjunction with the Folger Shakespeare Library’s new exhibit, “Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible.” Texts from the King James Bible, or earlier English translations, were presented in a selection of choral music from 17th-century England. Read full article > >

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Folger Consort marks 400th anniversary of King James Version of the Bible

A self-proclaimed biblical soothsayer in Oakland, Calif., has gathered his followers in anticipation of the beginning of the end of the world.

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At Apocalypse Central, Preparing for What Happens, or Doesn’t

This probably wasn’t what the Bible meant when it predicted “end of days.” Organized religion will soon become almost extinct in nine Western countries, a team of mathematicians announced in a new study. Researchers looked at census data and found that…

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Study: Religion Will Die Out in 9 Countries

When did the Bible get so politically correct? The 2011 translation of the New International Version, or NIV, makes a few changes: in instances where “he” or “man” is used to mean all people, some gender-neutral pronouns have been swapped in. For…

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Gender-Neutral Bible Draws Criticism

James Frey’s upcoming novel about the Messiah’s second coming will compete with a British novelist who has penned a story with a strikingly similar plot. Frey’s The Final Testament of the Holy Bible depicts Christ as an alcoholic bisexual who sleeps…

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James Frey’s New Novel Not So Original

Mr. Gomes, a Harvard minister and theologian, embarked on a campaign to rebut literal and fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible.

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Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard Minister, Dies at 68

Chemists, geologists, biologists, planetary scientists and physicists gathered recently to ponder where and what Eden might have been.

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A Romp Into Theories of the Cradle of Life